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Steve Safran is the Senior Vice President for Media 2.0 at new media consulting firm AR&D and the Managing Editor of Lost Remote. He joined Coy for a discussion on the latest from the world of new media. He says newspapers and radio seem to get it, but television stations are very comfortable in their existing business model. Safran also says television news did a terrible job of putting this week’s market sell-off into perspective.  |
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Hawes Spencer is the editor and founder of The Hook newspaper in Charlottesville. He joined Coy Barefoot yesterday for a round-up and discussion of some local new happenings.
Kelly Porell is the Executive Director of Virginia21, the nation’s first “action-tank” that advocates for young people in state government. Kelly discussed the 2007 General Assembly session and how it shaped up regarding higher education funding and keeping a college education affordable.
Shaun Kenney, Director of Communications for the Republican Party of Virginia, and Jesse Ferguson, spokesman for Delegate Brian Moran (Chairman of the Democratic Caucus), join Coy Barefoot on the February 26th edition of WINA’s CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjkjRight Now to recap this year’s General Assembly session. Topics include the transportation package, the slavery regret bill, re-regulation of Dominion Virginia Power, the success of eminent domain legislation, and the failure of legislation to raise the minimum wage. Shaun and Jesse also share what we might expect from their party’s candidates in this year’s elections.
Morgan Felchner is the editor of Campaign and Elections magazine. She joins WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot to discuss the February issue, which features a look at 2006’s nastiest political ads.
| Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss a recent article she wrote on the decline of American support for the death penalty – except on the Supreme Court. She also talks about other legal news, including the Anne Nicole Smith case and the Jose Padilla competency hearings.
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| Allison Hantschel is a blogger and author who posts to the site First Draft. She has a new book called Special Plans: The Blogs & the Faulty Intelligence That Led To War. The book traces the story of Douglas Feith, a key figure in President Bush’s Defense Department in the run-up to the Iraq War. He ran the Office of Special Plans, which was created to collect intelligence on the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.”What Douglas Feith was doing was taking reports from Iraqi defectors who were questionable,” she says. “For example, we were fed a bunch of lines about mobile biological weapons laboratories that were terribly dangerous and could strike us from anywhere. And the main source for that allegation turned out to be an alcoholic cousin to an aid to Ahmed Chalabi.” She adds that Chalabi later turned out to be also shown as less than reliable.
Hantschel is a guest on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot.
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Susan Carkeek is the new director of human resources at the University of Virginia. She had her first radio interview in Charlottesville on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Carkeek talks about the challenges of managing 14,000 salaried employees across the academic and medical departments.
“It’s like a city within a city,” Carkeek says. “We have everything from police officers, food service, grounds, computer technicians, every kind of occupation that you can imagine.”
Meg McEvoy interviewed Carkeek in December for C-Ville Weekly.
Charlottesville Tomorrow is an organization that tracks the status of development projects in the area surrounding our fair city. Executive Director Brian Wheeler joins Coy Barefoot each week on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to update listeners on growth issues. This week, he and Coy discuss changes being considered by the Charlottesville Planning Commission, the possibility of funding for the Meadowcreek Parkway, and the latest on efforts to keep parts of Albemarle County as rural.
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Rick Britton joins the show every week for a discussion of regional and national history. This week’s topics include a discussion of how Charlottesville at the end of the Confederacy.
| Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Humes is the author of Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul. The book takes a look at the conflict between religion and science, as seen in a landmark court case in Dover, Pennsylvania. That community was the battle ground on the teaching of “intelligent design.” Humes joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the case and his book.
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Chris Gates is the past president of the National Civic League, and the executive director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement. He joins Coy Barefoot from his office in Colorado on the February 15th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. The conversation begins with Gate’s thoughts on the 2008 presidential race. He warns against relying too much on 2007 polls to predict who will take the Oval Office in 2009. Gates also says the world will be watching the race like never before to see how the world’s lone superpower sees the world.