UVA Today Radio | April 28, 2010

Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

“Pippin” at the Culbreth (Bob Chapel)
Trout Streams (Rick Webb)
“The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll,” a memoire (Mark Edmundson)

Air Date: 4/28/2010

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Charlottesville Right Now: 4-26-10 David Toscano

Del. David Toscano

This past Saturday, Delegate David Toscano presided over a rare meeting between the Charlottesville City Council, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and the two jurisdictions’ school boards. Toscano called the meeting after the two communities sparred over a potential recalculation of the composite index that would have reallocated $2.8 million from city schools to county schools.

In this podcast interview with Coy Barefoot, Toscano provides a recap of the meeting. To hear it for yourself, Charlottesville Tomorrow posted the audio

WNRN Wake-Up Call: Health Care Reform

Rick Moore (host) and Sean McCord (producer) talk with Congressman Tom Perriello about health care reform. Callers ask about: the definition of Health Care Exchange; how uninsured Americans fall into the new laws; the effects on Medicare and the goal to stop overall spiraling costs; what part private insurers have to play in reform;and why not a public option?