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8/12/10 5:00pm |
Golf in North Central Wisconsin - With Route 51 host Glen Moberg on vacation this week, we welcome our friend, Bill Martens to fill in as guest host. Martens will lead a discussion on golf in our region with his guests: Jeff Mayers, author of Golf Wisconsin: The Official Guide to the State's Top 25 Public Courses; and regional expert, Mark Zelich, founder of the News Channel 7 Golf Classic. They'll talk about the golf courses of the region and share stories of the golfers and the game.
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8/5/10 5:00pm |
Tom Barrett - This week features Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. Host Glen Moberg will question Mr. Barrett about the big policy debates in the statewide campaign, the political climate heading into the November election, and the top issues and concerns for voters in North Central Wisconsin. In the general election, Barrett will face either Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker or former Congressman Mark Neumann, the two Republicans on the September primary ballot. Listeners to the program had an opportunity to call in and question Mr. Barrett live on the air.
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7/29/10 5:00pm |
South Beach Chamber Ensemble - It's become an annual tradition- direct from Miami Beach, Florida, Wausau native Michael Andrews brings the South Beach Chamber Ensemble to our Wisconsin Public Radio studios for an hour of live chamber music and lively conversation.
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7/22/10 5:00pm |
Betty Boop Festival, Wisconsin Rapids - This week we'll preview the first annual Betty Boop Wisconsin Festival, scheduled for August 5th - August 8th in Wisconsin Rapids. The festival honors the work of Grim Natwick, a groundbreaking cartoonist and animator who was born in Wisconsin Rapids, and who brought the iconic flapper to life at Hollywood's Max Fleischer studios in the late 20's and early 30's. Guests include: festival director Cathy Meil and local artist Jeanne Weywouth to discuss the upcoming festival weekend, and the impact of Grim Natwick and Betty Boop on American culture. The show will also feature music clips from some of the original Betty Boop cartoons.
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7/15/10 5:00pm |
Sid Kyler River Valley Jazz Festival - This week we preview the first annual Sid Kyler River Valley Jazz Festival, scheduled for this Saturday, July 17th at Bull Falls Brewery, 901 E. Thomas Street on Wausau's east side. The festival will bring together nine Wisconsin based jazz bands for a full day of music on two stages, from 11 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Route 51 host and concert emcee Glen Moberg will talk about American jazz music with band leader Sid Kyler, River Valley Jazz Society spokesman Louis Pradt, and concert promoter Don Zamzow. Sid Kyler's Dixieland Band will perform live music in our Wisconsin Public Radio Wausau studio for this special Route 51 program.
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7/8/10 5:00pm |
Senator Julie Lassa - We feature some one-on one time with seventh district congressional candidate State Senator Julie Lassa (D-Stevens Point), who is hoping to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Congressman Dave Obey. Discussion will revolve around her positions on the struggling economy and high unemployment, Wall Street financial reform, the oil spill in the Gulf and its impact on energy legislation, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, immigration reform, and political forecasts that predict Republican gains and Democratic losses in Congress. Lassa faces a Democratic primary challenge from author and internet consultant Joe Reasbeck. She will face either former Ashland District Attorney Sean Duffy or Portage County organic farmer Dan Mielke as her Republican opponent in the general election.
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7/1/10 5:00pm |
Drought in Northern Wisconsin - This week we examine the effects of drought on our north woods lakes, reservoirs, rivers and ecosystems. Eight years of reduced rainfall have left some of northern Wisconsin's best known fishing lakes and reservoirs several feet below normal, adversely affecting the tourist economy, the health of surrounding forests, and in some cases well water.
Guests will be Jim Bishop, public affairs manager with the Department of Natural Resources and Sam Morgan, vice-president of operations for Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company. Bishop is responsible for much of the state's lakeland region north of Marathon County. Morgan's company regulates the water level of the flowages connected to the Wisconsin River system, and has to deal every day with homeowners and recreational users alarmed at the effects of the ongoing drought.
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6/17/10 5:00pm |
Energy Fair Preview and Amanda Little - Preview of the 21st annual Midwest Renewable Energy Association Energy Fair, scheduled for this weekend in Custer, Wisconsin, just east of Stevens Point. Our guests will be one of the keynote speakers at the fair, Amanda Little, author of Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells - Our Ride to the Renewable Future, joined by Doug Stingle, Programs Director for the MREA. Little has been a guest on many radio and cable television news programs, with her focus on how American ingenuity can break our economic dependence on oil and lead us into a green energy future. Her critically acclaimed book begins with an in-depth look at deep water oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico similar to the one that created the British Petroleum environmental disaster.
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6/7/10 5:00pm |
7th District Congressman Dave Obey - On Monday, June 7th from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., Wisconsin Public Radio presents a special live edition of Route 51 regional talk radio featuring Seventh District Democratic Congressman Dave Obey. Host Glen Moberg will interview Mr. Obey for the full hour in our studio at UW Marathon County, discussing his priorities for the final months of his 41 year career in Congress, and his views on the economy, national security, the Gulf oil spill, and the upcoming November elections. We will be taking live phone calls, questions and comments from our listeners for the full hour.
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6/3/10 5:00pm |
Joe Bucher and 2010 Musky Season - This week our guest is Joe Bucher, world famous fishing guide, lure designer, television producer and bluesman. Host Glen Moberg will talk to Bucher about the opening weekend of the northern musky season, the secrets of his lure designs, and the challenges facing our northern lakes because of continuing drought conditions and invasive species. Joe Bucher will also take live questions on fishing strategy and techniques from Route 51 listeners for the full hour.
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5/27/10 5:00pm |
Annual Gardening Show - This week features our annual gardening show with the always informative and entertaining David Ryle of the Jung Seed Company of Stevens Point. We'll open the phone lines to listeners, so they can ask Ryle about the specific challenges and frustrations facing gardeners and landscapers in the northern half of our state. It's a Garden Talk show just for our inclement northern climate... where it snows in May, and then breaks all time heat records just a few days later.
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5/20/10 5:00pm |
LZ Lambeau-WI Welcomes Home Vietnam Veterans - We have a special live broadcast from UW-Green Bay as we preview this weekend's LZ Lambeau Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans reunion at historic Lambeau Field. Host Glen Moberg will moderate a discussion with a panel of local Vietnam veterans and event organizers, as we look back at their service to our country during the turbulent events of the Vietnam era. The LZ (or Landing Zone) Lambeau event will feature a motorcycle honor ride, The Moving Wall Vietnam memorial, and a tribute Saturday evening with military flyovers, music, excerpts from the new public television documentary Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories, a tribute to the 1,244 KIA and MIA Wisconsin soldiers and a formal "Thank you and welcome home" from Gov. Jim Doyle. Vietnam veterans, their families and friends are encouraged to call this special Route 51 program live so we can broadcast their personal tributes and remembrances.
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5/13/10 5:00pm |
Live Broadcast at 2010 Listener Dinner - This Thursday, May 13th, Route 51 regional talk radio takes our show on the road with a broadcast before a live audience from our annual listener appreciation dinner at Lake Arrowhead in Nekoosa. Host Glen Moberg devotes the first half of the program to the economy and environment of central Wisconsin, with George Mead, executive director of the Mead Witter Foundation and former CEO of Consolidated Papers; and Sam Fairchild, CEO of Energy Composites, a Wisconsin Rapids firm with a vision to become one of the nation's leaders in renewable energy. The second half of the program will be devoted to the legislative agenda for central Wisconsin, with Republican State Senator Luther Olsen of Ripon and Democratic Assemblyman Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids. The special Route 51 program will take questions from our live audience in Nekoosa.
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5/6/10 5:00pm |
Never Forgotten Honor Flight- the afterglow - This week we devote a second program to the Never Forgotten Honor Flight, a project that flew more than 100 World War II veterans free of charge to Washington DC this past week. The vets had a chance to see the World War II memorial and Arlington Cemetery, and to receive some long overdue recognition for their service. A crowd of 500 people welcomed them back home to Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee at the end of the one day excursion. Discussion will include the experiences of this day to remember with three people who made the trip: Honor Flight organizer Jim Campbell; Pete Wasson, Assistant Managing Editor for the Wausau Daily Herald; and Joe Karlen, one of the men in the 8th Infantry Division who went ashore at Normandy on D-Day. Listeners will also hear the stories of other local World War II veterans who made the flight.
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4/29/10 5:00pm |
The History of Fur Farming in Central Wisconsin - This week we devote an hour to the history of fur farming in North Central Wisconsin. Host Glen Moberg welcomes Gary and Jon Mason, co-owners of The Fox Tale and Silver Fox Retreat in rural Hamburg, southwest of Merrill. The retreat and conference center is on the site of the old Fromm Brothers Farm, at one time the center of the world fur farming industry. The silver fox pelts that were bred at the site were purchased for an unheard of $1.3 million dollars by the New York Auction Company in 1929, were later featured at the Chicago World's Fair, and worn by Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Jackie Kennedy and the Vanderbilts. The auctions on the farm attracted celebrities that included New York's Mayor Fiorello Laguardia, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Albert Einstein. The Fromm Brothers also pioneered the science of ginseng farming in central Wisconsin, and helped create a canine distemper vaccine that is still in use today.
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4/22/10 5:00pm |
The 40th Anniversary of Earth Day - This week we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the environmental holiday started by Wisconsin's own Senator Gaylord Nelson. To mark the occasion, we welcome Marge Gibson of the Raptor Education Group back to our WPR Studios to discuss the progress made since the first Earth Day in 1970 in protecting our environment, and bringing back from the brink of extinction the American bald eagle and other previously endangered species. Gibson is one of the world's premier wildlife rehabilitators, and has nursed back to health hundreds of injured eagles, hawks, owls and waterfowl at her organization's headquarters in rural Antigo. She first received international acclaim in 1989 when she supervised the wildlife rescue operation following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
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4/15/10 5:00pm |
The Patriotic American Taxpayer - This Thursday, April 15th, as anti-tax and anti-government rhetoric fills the air, Route 51 does something different: we dedicate an hour to the patriotic American taxpayer, who pays his or her taxes on time, and doesn't complain about it. The program will focus on the good things our taxes accomplish, including supporting our troops, paying our police and firefighters, educating our children, protecting our environment, encouraging entrepreneurs and small businesses, helping the unemployed, and providing vital social services to those in need. Guests will be Dr. Jack Norman, Research Director at the Institute for Wisconsin's Future, an organization dedicated to adequate funding for state and local governments.
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4/8/10 5:00pm |
Future of Downtown Stevens Point - This week we'll look at the efforts to revitalize and redevelop downtown Stevens Point. With its mall facing foreclosure, and the loss of longtime anchor J.C. Penney, city leaders are working to attract new tenants, to tie a strong base of locally owned retail stores to the nearby UW Stevens Point campus, and to better market the area's historic architecture, public spaces and riverfront location. Guests will be: Stevens Point Mayor Andrew Halverson; Director of Community Development Mike Morrissey; and developer Mark Craig, General Manager of Compass Properties. The discussion will include comparisons to the recent successful redevelopment of downtown Wausau, in which Morrissey and Craig both played important roles.
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3/25/10 5:00pm |
Faith Healing and the Law - This week we take a look at faith healing and the law, as the state senate and general assembly considers new legislation to address the conflict between religious freedom and the obligation of parents to provide for the welfare and safety of their children. The push for the legislation came in response to the so-called prayer death trials of Dale and Leilani Neumann in Marathon County last year, whose guilty verdicts are being appealed to the state supreme court. The Neumanns were both convicted of second degree reckless homicide because they prayed for their critically ill daughter Madeline Kara instead of seeking medical treatment. Guests will be: Shawn Peters, Wisconsin based author of When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law; attorney Jay Kronenwetter, who represented Dale Neumann in his criminal trial; and Marathon County Assistant District Attorney LaMont Jacobson, who successfully prosecuted the cases.
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3/18/10 5:00pm |
Never Forgotten Honor Flight - Focus this week is on our surviving World War II Veterans and a local project called Never Forgotten Honor Flight, which will take a planeload of vets free of charge to Washington D.C. to view the World War II Veterans Memorial. Guests will be: Honor Flight co-founders Jim Campbell and Mike Thompson and World War II veteran Ralph Buechler. With many veterans of the Great War now in their eighties and nineties, Campbell and Thompson see an urgent need to bring them together to see the long overdue public memorial that recognizes their service. More information about the project can be found on the website Never Forgotten Honor Flight.
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