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Wake-Up Call: Art and Life
On the August 3rd edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Rick Moore discusses the artistic life with Beryl Solla, Chair of the Piedmont Virginia Community College Art Dept. and Gallery Curator; Laura Parsons, Arts Editor for The Hook, and Maggie Guggenheimer, Executive Director of the Piedmont Council of the Arts. In a wide-ranging conversation, these leaders in the local art scene explain how our lives and community are enriched by the arts, and why it is important to support local arts organizations.
Wake-Up Call: Practical Ethics and Public Life
On the August 10th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, James Childress and Ruth Bernheim, co-directors of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia and Andrew Wicks, co-director of Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden Business School, join host Rick Moore to discuss ethics and practical ethics.
Some of the issues discussed were: What are ethics? What makes someone ethical? Does ethical automatically mean good? And what is the difference between ethics and morals? For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!
Wake-Up Call: Politics Roundtable
On the July 27th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Sean McCord, Joe Crisp and UVA adjunct professor Pete Ronanye were Rick Moore’s guests for a round table discussion on politics. Some of the issues discussed were the Presidential race, the Iraq War, the reasons for rising gas prices, whether offshore drilling will alleviate the problem, Senator Obama’s visit to Iraq and methods of campaigning. For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!
A look at CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocates
Each year in the Charlottesville / Albemarle region, hundreds of children are victims of violence, sexual abuse and severe neglect. Piedmont CASA is an organization that trains Court Appointed Special Advocates, who work one-on-one with abused and endangered children to assist the courts in determining the best environment to ensure each child’s safety and well-being. On the July 20 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick speaks with CASA Advancement Director Phoebe Frosch and CASA volunteer Patty Thomas Cato.
Changing Virginia’s energy culture with Al Weed
Former 5th District Congressional Candidate Al Weed has relaunched Public Policy of Virginia, a grass roots organization whose stated mission is to “change the energy culture of the Commonwealth.” Weed joined Rick Moore on the July 13th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN to answer questions about the role carbon emissions. What makes them so bad for the environment? Can the current free markets be used to reduce carbon emissions? What is a carbon tax? How does all of this affect Virginia? For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!
Jim Duncan analyzes the Central Virginia housing market
On the July 6, 2008 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, real estate blogger Jim Duncan talks with Rick Moore about the state of the Central Virginia housing market. Is it a good time to sell your house? Should you move from renting to owning? Find out more in this podcast from the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
This is also the last episode of the Wake-Up Call produced by Michael Strickland, who is heading off to college in a few weeks. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network owes a great deal of gratitude to Michael for his volunteering over the past couple of years. Deepak Singh and Sean McCord will be taking over. Good luck, Michael, and thanks for your hard work!
Wake-Up Call: Personal Finance with Karin Bonding
Listeners to the June 29, 2008 installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore will get a one-hour lesson in personal finance from one of the region’s top experts. Karin Bonding teaches a personal finance course at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. She answers calls from listeners about how to maintaining a good credit score, the importance of taking responsibility for finances in troubled times and the best way to use your economic stiumulus check.
Wake Up Call: Presidential Election ‘08
On this edition of Sunday Morning Wake-Up call show Pete Ronayne and Jim Sofka, two political analyst discuss presidential election 2008 wiath Rick Moore. Topics include candidate experience, whether America is ready to vote for a black man as President, and who would be a more acceptable first lady.
Wake-Up Call: No-Kill Animal Shelters
On this week’s edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, three board members of the Almost Home Pet Adoption Center, join Rick in the studio to talk about No-Kill animal shelters. Bette Grahame, Sarah Landon, and Tedi Wright discuss topics such as spay and neutering, volunteering at the shelter, and how else individuals can help. What are the ethics surrounding euthanasia? What are the alternatives? How should you protect your animals from the recent heat wave? Find out the answers to all these questions, only on the Wake-Up Call. Callers also chime in with their questions and comments.