Daniel Hurt
Host of Morning EditionHurt is a Livingston County native and has been a political consultant for a little over a decade. He currently hosts a local talk show “River City Presents”, produced by Paducah2, which features live musical performances, academic discussion, and community spotlights.
Daniel resides in Grand Rivers. He enjoys collecting records, watching movies, working on his TV show, and playing trivia.
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In honor of upcoming Earth Week and the 2024 Four Rivers Watershed Sustainability Festival, Murray State's Cinema International program and Watershed Studies Institute have partnered to present the environmental documentary The Human Element this week. Daniel Hurt speaks to Cinema International program director Dr. Thérèse St. Paul and biology professor Dr. Howard Whiteman about the upcoming screenings. -
A concert benefitting Paducah's Merryman House Domestic Crisis Center will be held this Saturday, April 20, at Paducah Beer Werks. The event will feature music from a variety of regional bands, including Family Bags, Charmers, and Daywaster. Daniel Hurt speaks to local musician and Family Bags bassist Melanie A. Davis ahead of the event. -
Daniel Hurt speaks to Dr. Thérèse St. Paul, Murray State's Cinema International director, and Dr. Roxane Riegler, German professor, ahead of Cinema International's screenings of German comedy Isi & Ossi this week. The film follows the story of its titular characters, a billionaire's daughter and a poor would-be prize boxer who date out of ulterior motives instead of love. -
Daniel Hurt speaks to Murray State professor of biological sciences Dr. Howard Whiteman about the Watershed Studies Institute and Hancock Biological Station's annual Four Rivers Watershed Sustainability Festival. The festival features a wide variety of educational, family-friendly programs that celebrate clean water and healthy watersheds and promote an appreciation and call to action for the conservation of both. -
In the next installment of Uncommon History, Daniel Hurt speaks to Brent Taylor, West Kentucky Community & Technical College's associate professor of history, about Kentucky's statehood story that started with a 1788 letter sent to Congress in New York City, which expressed Kentucky's frustration about the pace of the Union-joining process.
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Daniel Hurt speaks to Dr. Thérèse St. Paul, director of Murray State's Cinema International program, and Dr. Rebecca Rosen, assistant professor of English, ahead of Cinema International's screenings of the 2020 documentary Crip Camp, which follows the story of a summer camp for people with disabilities in upstate New York before Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. -
In the next installment of Uncommon History, Daniel Hurt speaks with Alissa Keller, Executive Director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, ahead of the city's Cayce Days, which pays tribute to Hopkinsville's favorite mystic son, clairvoyant Edgar Cayce, whose abilities drew people from all over the country to western Kentucky.
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The regional Great Rivers Group chapter of the environmental advocacy group Sierra Club, hosted Kentucky chapter director Julia Finch this week.
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In the next installment of Uncommon History with Daniel Hurt, Hurt speaks to author and professor emeritus of history from West Kentucky Community College Berry Craig about Paducah native John T. Scopes. It would become one of the highest-profile cases, including prosecution led by former presidential candidate and US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and one of the top attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, Clarence Darrow.
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The Murray State Department of English and Philosophy hosts author Brenda Peynado on Monday, March 11, as part of the department's Reading Series. Daniel Hurt speaks to Peynado ahead of the event.
