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10/10/13 10:00am |
October 10, 2013: Congressmen Duffy and Kind on the Government Shutdown - Two North Central Wisconsin Congressmen, Republican Sean Duffy and Democrat Ron Kind, will appear on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Route 51, Thursday morning, October 10th from 10 to 11 a.m., and take live phone calls from our listeners on the government shut down and debt ceiling crisis. Host Glen Moberg will interview Congressman Duffy from 10 to 10:30 am, and Congressman Kind from 10:30 to 11 am.
Guest(s): Sean Duffy , Ron Kind |
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10/3/13 10:00am |
October 3, 2013: Regional Impact of the Affordable Care Act - We'll examine the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health providers and patients in North Central Wisconsin. We'll be joined by our guests, Sid Sczygelski, CFO and Senior Vice President of Finance of Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Laura Scudiere, Executive Director of the Bridge Community Health Clinic of Wausau, which serves many low income and Medicaid patients, and Sara Finger, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health. The program will also feature Gary Bezucha, CEO of North Central Health Care of Wausau, and will provide specific information on how to access the new health insurance exchanges and comparison shop for coverage.
Guest(s): Sid Sczygelski , Laura Scudiere , Gary Bezucha , Sara Finger |
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9/26/13 10:00am |
September 26, 2013: Architectural Historian, Richard Guy Wilson - This week we'll feature a conversation with world-renowned architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson. Professor Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia (which was founded by architect Thomas Jefferson), and has served as an advisor and television commentator for PBS, A&E, and dozens of segments of America’s Castles. He will be giving a free public lecture on “Preserving Our Historical Treasures” Wednesday October 2nd at the Grand Theater in Wausau in connection with the historic theater’s capital campaign. Wilson will be joined on the radio program by Jim O’Connell, executive director of the Performing Arts Foundation and Mary Roberts, community volunteer with the Grand Theater Foundation.
Guest(s): Richard Guy Wilson |
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9/19/13 10:00am |
September 19, 2013: Menominee Place Names - We'll talk about the Menominee Place Names Map, which merges modern satellite imagery with the ancient Menominee language, and shows the original tribal names of cities, villages, lakes, streams and landforms in central Wisconsin. It is now on display at the UW-Stevens Point Museum of Natural History. Our guests will be museum director and archaeologist Ray Reser and map creator Mike Hoffman, one of the few people still alive who speaks the Menominee language. The map is a product of 30 years of research, and is the first project of its kind in Wisconsin.
Guest(s): Mike Hoffman , Ray Reser |
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9/12/13 10:00am |
September 12, 2013: Rural Health Initiative - This week we'll focus on central Wisconsin’s Rural Health Initiative, a program that brings medical care and check-ups to farm families whose busy lives make it hard to access clinics and hospitals in urban centers. Discussion will include the special medical challenges facing farm families with Rural Health Initiative Executive Director Rhonda Strebel, including the dangers of agricultural work, the difficulty of scheduling regular medical care, and the problem of expensive, high deductible insurance. The Rural Health Initiative started in Shawano County ten years ago through the efforts of ThedaCare and the Shawano Medical Center. The program expanded to Outagamie and Waupaca Counties last year, and may expand to Marathon County in the near future.
Guest(s): Rhonda Strebel |
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9/5/13 10:00am |
Little Rock Lake Acid Rain Experiment - This week we focus on a decades long experiment on acid rain pollution at Little Rock Lake, north of Minocqua. The pristine hourglass lake was divided into two halves with a barrier- one half received gradual doses of acid and the other half was left untouched. The experiment, which concluded recently with the removal of the barrier, has been credited with changing national environmental policy. Our guests will include the people behind the project: Dr. Carl Watras, DNR Research Scientist; Dr. Susan Knight, DNR Botanist and Aquatic Invasive Species Specialist; and Dr. Tim Kratz, Director of the Trout Lake Station
Guest(s): Dr. Carl Watras , Dr. Susan Knight , Dr. Tim Kratz |
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8/29/13 10:00am |
U.S. Congressman Sean Duffy - Seventh District U.S. Congressman Sean Duffy (R-Weston). Route 51 host Glen Moberg will ask Congressman Duffy about the escalating tensions in Syria and the Middle East, immigration reform, the debt limit, the effort to defund Obamacare, the Voting Rights Act, NSA spying, gun control, the climate change debate, U.S. forestry policy, and the President’s call for a new jobs program linked to infrastructure spending.
Guest(s): Sean Duffy |
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8/22/13 10:00am |
Talking "Star Wars" with author, John Jackson Miller - Our guest this week is author John Jackson Miller from Iola, WI, who has spent a lifetime immersed in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. We'll talk to Miller about his Star Wars themed books, including his latest, titled, "Kenobi," set to be released in a few weeks. He's best known for "Star Wars: Knight Errant", his national bestselling novel from Del Rey; "Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith" and his long-running "Knights of the Old Republic" comics series from Dark Horse. Central regional manager Rick Reyer fills in this week for Glen Moberg.
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8/15/13 10:00am |
Mountain Biking in Central Wisconsin - A new effort to make the Wausau area a premier mountain biking destination is the focus of Route 51 this week. Local cyclists want Wausau to become one of only a handful of International Mountain Biking Association Ride Centers, which could bring thousands of new tourists to the area. Guests include: Hansi Johnson, Midwest Regional Director of the International Mountain Biking Association; Matt Block, member of the board of directors of the Wausau based Off Road Cycling Coalition; and Bill Duncanson, Director of the Wausau and Marathon County Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department.
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8/8/13 10:00am |
Local Expansion of Skyward, student information software company - We welcome Jim and Jean King, the founders of the student information software company Skyward, along with Portage County Executive Patty Dreier. The Kings announced ambitious expansion plans for their company, including the construction of a new global headquarters in Stevens Point, and increasing the number of employees from about 400 to over 1000. The plans were made possible by a legislative victory, in which the state's single vendor policy was repealed, allowing Skyward to continue serving more than half the schools in Wisconsin. We'll discuss the regional economic impact of the Skyward expansion and the bipartisan coalition of local politicians that achieved the legislative victory.
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8/1/13 10:00am |
US Congressman, Ron Kind - Route 51 welcomes the first appearance of Third District U.S. Congressman Ron Kind (D-La Crosse). Because of Wisconsin's new legislative districts, Congressman Kind now represents Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, and much of central Wisconsin, areas that were previously part of the Seventh Congressional District. We'll ask Kind about his priorities for the new parts of his congressional district, and for his stance on Egypt and Syria, immigration reform, the implementation of Obamacare, NSA spying, gun control, climate change, Washington gridlock, and the President's call for a new jobs program linked to infrastructure spending.
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7/25/13 10:00am |
Funding for Mass Transit Bus Service - This week we'll look at ways to fund mass transit and public bus lines for the greater Wausau area and for other Wisconsin communities where budget problems have caused cutbacks and service disruptions. Our guests will be Greg Seubert, the Director of the Wausau area Metro-Ride system, and Keene Winters, Wausau City Councilman and Vice Chair of the Wausau Area Transit Commission.
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7/18/13 10:00am |
South Beach Chamber Ensemble - We welcome the Miami-based South Beach Chamber Ensemble for an hour of live music and conversation. Wausau native, cellist and ensemble leader Michael Andrews, bassist Cindy Blandino, violinists Sarah Schreffler and Oscar Soler, and violist Kenneth Martinson will perform selections from this year's South Beach Up North tour in our Wausau studios
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7/11/13 10:00am |
Sid Kyler Dixieland Jazz Band - Legendary band leader and trumpet player Sid Kyler will perform live in our Wisconsin Public Radio studios with saxophonist Duane Askew, clarinetist Louis Pradt, bassist Roger Pickering, and Route 51 host Glen Moberg on guitar. We'll talk about the influence of American jazz music and preview the Sid Kyler River Valley Jazz Festival, which happens July 19th and 20th at the Bull Falls Brewery in Wausau. This will be the first Route 51 show at its new time slot of 10 a.m. Thursday mornings.
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6/27/13 5:00pm |
The Wisconsin State Budget - Discussion on the Wisconsin State Budget. Host Glen Moberg will moderate a discussion with 72nd District State Representative Scot Krug, Republican from Wisconsin Rapids, and 85th District State Representative Mandy Wright, Democrat from Wausau.
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6/20/13 5:00pm |
Energy Fair and Aquaponics - We'll feature the technology of aquaponics, a water based food production system being highlighted at this weekend's Midwest Renewable Energy Association's Energy Fair in Custer Wisconsin, and at the International Aquaponics Conference, Aquaponics and Global Food Security, which is taking place this week at UW-Stevens Point. Our guests will be, Dr. Christopher Hartleb, Professor of Fisheries Biology and Co-Director of the UW-Stevens Point Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility; and Jesse Hull and Molly Stanek, the leaders of Imagine Aquaponics, a Wisconsin company that will be doing demonstrations on the technology at the Energy Fair.
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6/13/13 5:00pm |
Encore Presentation: Author, Dr. Anne Speckhard - We feature an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Anne Speckhard, a native of Wausau who is an expert on international terrorism and post-traumatic stress. Dr. Speckhard has interviewed over 400 terrorists, extremists, their supporters, hostages, family members and their close associates in Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, North Ossetia, Morocco, Belgium, UK, the Netherlands and France. Dr. Speckhard will discuss her research, as chronicled in her recently published book, Talking to Terrorists, Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers and 'Martyrs.' Originally broadcast on 1/10/13.
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6/6/13 5:00pm |
Regional Breweries of N Central WI - Profiling the regional breweries of North Central Wisconsin, with our guests John Zappa, Brewmaster of Stevens Point Brewery; Paul Graham, President and Owner of Central Waters Brewing Company of Amherst; and Mike Zamzow, Co-Owner and Brewmaster of Bull Falls Brewery of Wausau. We'll talk to the three brewers about the resurgence of craft beer in Wisconsin, the expansion projects they're involved in, and the rewards and challenges of competing with the giants of the industry.
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5/30/13 5:00pm |
Impact of Frac Sand Mining on Endangered Species in WI - We'll explore the impact of frac sand mining on endangered species, including the Karner Blue Butterfly, and human communities in Wisconsin with Dr. Dale Murray, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UW-Baraboo/Sauk County and UW-Richland, who is giving a lecture later that evening at UW-Marathon County's Center for Civic Engagement in Wausau. Dr. Murray's presentations on environmental ethics have focused on habitat conservation plans, e-waste and community supported agriculture.
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5/23/13 5:00pm |
Baseball's Northwoods League: Wisconsin Woodchucks and Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. - It's an hour of fun at the old ball park as we discuss baseball and the Northwoods League with Mark Macdonald, owner of the Wisconsin Woodchucks, and Liz Kern, general manager of the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. We'll ask Macdonald about his ambitious plans to renovate historic Athletic Park in Wausau, and will ask Kern about recent improvements for the Rafters' fourth season in Witter Field.
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