Daniel Hurt
Host of Morning EditionHurt is a Livingston County native and was a political consultant for a little over a decade before coming to WKMS as host of Morning Edition. He also hosts a local talk show “Daniel Hurt Presents”, produced by Paducah2, which features live musical performances, academic discussion, and community spotlights.
Daniel resides in Paducah. He enjoys collecting records, watching movies, playing trivia, and good conversation.
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A 2024 debut by Mexican director Pierre Saint-Martin, the film tells the story of Socorro, a grieving lawyer whose brother was killed in the protests by government forces, connecting past and present as she seeks answers about this death. -
The works of two Kentucky artists will come together this weekend when R&B performer Martha Redbone will set poems by Hopkinsville native bell hooks to music along with her band in the late writer’s hometown. -
WKMS provides readers and listeners in far western Kentucky with coverage of contested races for Congress, the state legislature and several local leadership offices that are up for grabs on Nov. 3. -
Mayfield will be choosing a new mayor this November. -
Three candidates – Republican Russ Guffey, Democrat Markeeta Oldham Wilkerson and Independent Desaepa Vansauwa – are all running to be Hopkinsville's next mayor in the November election. -
Gierhart was recently named the 2026 Kentucky Retired Teachers Association Volunteer of the Year for his continued work fighting food insecurity and poverty. -
Western Kentucky and southern Illinois musicians have organized a charity covers concert celebrating the music of Nirvana – the iconic 1990s grunge rock band led by Kurt Cobain – to benefit the Paducah Cooperative Ministry. -
This week, Cinema International is screening the 2025 French animated film “Little Amelie or the Character of Rain,” which tells the story of a young Belgian toddler living in post-war Japan as she navigates her cultural identity. -
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Murray State University’s Department of Art and Design and University Galleries hosted an annual lecture as part of the Patricia L. Summerville series this month with guest artist-in-printmaking Delita Martin, whose exhibit “Sometimes My Blues Change Colors,” in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery.
