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6/2/11 5:00pm |
The Lure of Musky Fishing - This week guest host Bill Martens will be filling in for vacationing Glen Moberg. Discussion will revolve around catching the elusive Wisconsin Musky. Our guest will be Leon "Buckshot" Anderson, of St. Germain, who's spent more than 60 years as a fishing guide in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He is the author of several books, including his most recent, "Sixty Years Between the Oars," and is a member of the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.
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5/26/11 5:00pm |
Getting Down and Dirty with Gardening - This week features our Annual Gardening Show, with tips and advice on vegetable and flower gardening, shrubs and trees, horticulture and landscaping, specifically focused on the concerns of people who live in northern Wisconsin. Guests will include Dick Sontag, President of the Jung Seed Company, and Paul Whitaker, Professor of Biology and Botany at UW-Marathon County. Sontag and Whitaker will take calls live on the air from gardeners and landscapers with questions about our challenging and sometimes unforgiving climate up north.
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5/19/11 (All day) |
Aldo Leopold Documentary, Green Fire - This Thursday, Route 51 looks at Green Fire, a new movie about the life and influence of Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold. We will discuss the film and the impact Leopold had on the environmental movement and Wisconsin's landscape with Dr. Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at UW Madison, and Senior Fellow and Science Advisor at the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Dr. Temple will be the keynote speaker at a showing of Green Fire on June 2nd at the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin's George L. Ruder Forum in Wausau.
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5/12/11 5:00pm |
Conceal and Carry Gun Rights in WI - This week we are live at the legislative hearing on Wisconsin's proposed concealed carry gun law at the UW Marathon County Center for Civic Engagement in Wausau. One of the concealed carry bills was introduced by Republican State Senator Pam Galloway of Wausau. Guests include F.E. "Buster" Bachhuber, National Rifle Association Board member, and State Representative Donna Seidel, Democrat from Wausau, who opposes some aspects of the bill. Seidel brings a law enforcement perspective to the program as a former Wausau police officer. The program will feature testimony from the public hearing that will be taking place in the Center for Civic Engagement Theater.
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5/5/11 5:00pm |
WI Wolf Population - Is Wisconsin being overrun with wolves? That is the question we'll ask this week as we welcome mammalian ecologist Adrian Wydeven, head of the DNR's wolf management program. Under a plan drawn up by the agency in 1999, a target population was set of 350 wolves for the state of Wisconsin. Today, there are more than 800 wolves, and the population is growing. We'll talk about efforts to control the animals; how hunters, hikers and farmers can protect themselves and their pets and livestock; and about the recent move to take wolves off the endangered species list.
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4/28/11 5:00pm |
Take Back the Night Rally - This Thursday we are live at a "Take Back the Night" rally at UW Marathon County's Center for Civic Engagement. Discussion will revolve around the issues of sexual assault and domestic violence with keynote speaker and author Sandra Kring; rally organizer and UWMC student Lacy Taylor; and Jane Graham Jennings, executive director of The Women's Community of Wausau. Kring became a best-selling author despite an abusive childhood. She later ran support groups for abuse victims and trauma survivors in Price County.
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4/21/11 (All day) |
WI County Budgets - This week we look at the likely effects of Governor Walker's proposed budget on county government revenues and services. Discussion of the budget proposal will include Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger, focusing on the proposed 24% reduction in shared revenues, cutbacks in Badgercare coverage, the enrollment freeze in Family Care, cutbacks in highway maintenance money, added complexity to Senior Care enrollment, and the proposal to transfer low income programs like Medicaid and FoodShare from the county to the state, and contract them out to a private vendor. 26 Marathon County social service workers will likely be laid off because of the Medicaid and FoodShare transfer. Listeners will be able to phone in live on the air with their comments and questions.
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4/14/11 5:00pm |
Higher Education in Wisconsin - We take a look at the future of higher education in Wisconsin, as we assess the effects of Governor Walker?s proposed budget cuts and reorganization plan for the UW system and the state?s technical colleges. Guests will include UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson, UW Regent Mark Bradley and Northcentral Technical College President Lori Weyers. The program will look at the impact of proposed budget cuts of 30% of state funding for technical colleges, and 11 to 13% for UW system schools. The program will also look at the impact of a proposal to split UW Madison from the rest of the UW System. Chancellor Patterson, Regent Bradley, President Weyers and Moberg will be joined by UW Marathon County Dean Keith Montgomery for a public forum on the topic Monday evening at UW Marathon County's Center for Civic Engagement in Wausau.
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4/7/11 5:00pm |
Wis. Joint Finance Committee Budget Hearing - Coming to you live from the UW Stevens Point campus for the first Joint Finance Committee hearing on Governor Walker's proposed budget for 2011-2013. Host Glen Moberg will be joined by UWSP political scientists Ed Miller and Dennis Riley to analyze the budget details, and respond to testimony from concerned citizens at the day's hearing at the Quandt Fieldhouse. The proposed budget includes big cuts to public schools, local governments, and the UW system.
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3/31/11 5:00pm |
Budget Views of Republican Senators - Last week, Route 51 featured two members of the Wisconsin 14 who fled to Illinois to deny a quorum for Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill: State Senator Julie Lassa, Democrat from Stevens Point, and State Senator Bob Jauch, Democrat from Superior. This Thursday, we hear from the Republican side of the budget debate with State Senator Pam Galloway, Republican from Wausau, and State Senator Luther Olsen, Republican from Ripon. The Republican senators will be asked about the controversy surrounding the Governor?s plan to limit collective bargaining rights, the big budget cuts facing public schools and local governments, and the efforts to recall both Republican and Democratic state senators.
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3/24/11 5:00pm |
Views from two of the "Wisconsin 14" - We feature two members of the Wisconsin 14 who fled to Illinois to deny a quorum for Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill: State Senator Julie Lassa, Democrat from Stevens Point, and State Senator Bob Jauch, Democrat from Superior. Host Glen Moberg will question Lassa and Jauch about their reasons for fleeing the state; the criticism and praise they received for their action; the recall efforts being launched against their Republican colleagues; the court challenges that have been filed against the Governor's bill; and the changing status of the labor movement in Wisconsin and America.
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3/17/11 5:00pm |
Wisconsin's 1st Brigade Band - This week, Route 51 takes a well deserved break from political coverage to welcome members of Wisconsin's 1st Brigade Band, playing Civil War era music on actual instruments that were used at the time. One of the antique brass instruments is pictured in an 1868 photograph of the Wausau Town Band. Guests will include Jim Hoyt, UW Madison emeritus journalism professor and a member of the Wisconsin Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and 1st Brigade Band. The band will dress in period costumes and perform an historical reenactment concert Saturday, March 19th at Wausau?s Grand Theater, featuring appearances by President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
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3/10/11 5:00pm |
Wisconsin's Ongoing Budget Woes - This Thursday, we again focus on state politics, the debate over public employee unions, and the continuing impasse over Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill. Guests will include Democrat Christine Bremer-Muggli and Republican Keene Winters. Bremer-Muggli is an attorney with the Bremer and Trollop Law Offices, a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and former president of the Wausau School Board. Winters is a financial advisor for Great Lakes Financial Management Group and has been a Republican party board member in Marathon, Dane and Clark Counties. He recently wrote a column for the Wausau Daily Herald that said the laws that allowed collective bargaining for public employee unions ?favored the growth of government while stifling individual initiative.
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3/3/11 5:00pm |
Reaction to Governor Walker's Budget Address - We will once again discuss the regional impact of state politics as we focus on Governor Scott Walker?s proposed budget and his continuing efforts to pass the budget repair bill. Guests will include former Democratic Congressman Dave Obey, who represented Wisconsin 7th Congressional District for more than 40 years, and Bob Williams, a Portage County Republican who was an aide for former Republican Governor Lee Dreyfus, and who returns to Route 51 for a second consecutive week. Williams and Obey both have deep ties to the UW system. Obey graduated from UW Marathon County in Wausau. Williams? wife Mary is a former member of the UW Board of Regents who worked for Dreyfus both as Governor and when he served as Chancellor for UW Stevens Point. Discussion will focus on the Governor?s recommendations for the future of the UW system, as well as the future of collective bargaining, Medicaid, and aid to local governments in Wisconsin.
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2/24/11 5:00pm |
Gov. Walker's Budget Repair Bill - This week we'll discuss Governor Scott Walker?s budget repair bill, collective bargaining rights for public workers, and the massive demonstrations taking place in Madison. Guests will include Jeff Johnson, Chairman of the Marathon County Democratic Party and a former union steward for AFSCME; Bob Williams, a Portage County Republican who was an aide for former Republican Governor and UW Stevens Point Chancellor Lee Dreyfus; and Rob Mentzer, editorial page editor for the Wausau Daily Herald, which endorsed Governor Walker in the November election, but also expressed concerns about the recent move to restrict collective bargaining rights for state workers.
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2/17/11 5:00pm |
Downtown Stevens Point Renovation - Host Glen Moberg discusses the effort to pass a referendum to renovate downtown Stevens Point with Mayor Andrew Halverson. The 5.9 million dollar referendum was up for a vote on Tuesday, 2/15. It would move Mid State Technical College into the downtown mall, provide larger quarters for the Boys and Girls Club, and pave the way for reopening the city?s shuttered opera house, the Fox Theater. Other guests will include Michael Ostrowski, Director of Economic Development and Sarah Robinson, Executive Director of the Association of Downtown Businesses.
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2/10/11 5:00pm |
Phantom of the Opera - This week features the students and teachers involved in the production of The Phantom of the Opera, an ambitious project involving four central Wisconsin high schools: Wausau East and Wausau West High Schools in Wausau; D.C. Everest High School in Weston; and Merrill High School in Merrill. Guests will include project director Laurie Maegli, vocal director Susie Szmanda, and actress Maggie Ward, who portrays Christine, the female lead. The show will also feature interview segments with other lead actors and actresses, and will feature some of the songs and dialogue from the student production.
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2/3/11 5:00pm |
UWSP Research and Science Education - This week we'll follow up on President Obama?s State of the Union address on the importance of science education by welcoming two UW-Stevens Point chemistry professors involved in cutting edge research. John Droske is pioneering research into the use of polymers to slow the aging process of NASA spacesuits and for use in healing fractured bones in the human body. Nathan Bowling is synthesizing new organic molecules for possible use in the next generation of electronic devices, such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Droske and Bowling will discuss the ways in which their research may change our lives, and about the need to invest in science education to keep America competitive in the world economy. The UW-Stevens Point chemistry lab was recently awarded a grant to acquire a High Resolution QTOF Mass Spectrometer to guide faculty research projects and train the next generation of scientists.
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1/27/11 5:00pm |
The Iranian Hostage Crisis-30 Years Later - Our guest is Kevin Hermening who will discuss the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis and a reunion he had this week with other hostages at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Host Glen Moberg will ask Hermening about his impressions of the reunion, about the continuing global tensions between the United States and the Iranian regime, and about how his experience 30 years ago changed his life. Kevin Hermening is an economic advisor, and the president of Hermening Financial Group of Wausau. He is a former congressional candidate who has had a leadership role in the Republican Party of Marathon County.
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1/20/11 5:00pm |
Corky Siegel - This week we welcome a very special guest, harmonica virtuoso and blues pioneer Corky Siegel, for an hour of lively conversation and live music. Host Glen Moberg will talk with Corky about his long career that started in the sixties with the legendary Siegel-Schwall Band, and progressed through the seventies and eighties with a series of critically acclaimed solo albums, to the Deutsch Grammophon release of William Russo?s Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony, to his own symphonic compositions and collaborations. Siegel's newest project Chamber Blues, with the West End String Quartet, and Frank Donaldson on world percussion, blends classical and blues styles in a chamber music setting.
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