Host Rick Moore speaks with Rusty Cempre (worker at Price Hyundai) and Steve Bullock (worker at Edgecomb’s Auto) about car issues including the check engine light, air conditioning, and more.
WNRN Wake-Up Call: Intuitive Analyst Lee Channing
On July 11, Host Rick Moore speaks with intuitive analyst, Lee Channing. Channing has had psychic abilities ever since she was a child, and now works as an intuitive analyst for people near and far. Topics such as today’s solar eclipse and how the new moon is a great time to set your intentions for the following month, the different energies in the current oil crisis, personal health, and more.
WNRN Wake-Up Call: Summer Travel
Host Rick Moore talks with Julie Arbelaez, the owner of Peace Frogs in the Barracks Road Shopping Center. She and Rick discuss traveling and the mission of Peace Frogs does.
Peace Frogs works with people to set-up their leisure travel in order to have good experiences. They also talk about how much weather impacts people’s travel plans. Should you get travel insurance?
WNRN Wake-Up Call: Local Politics
Host Rick Moore talks with Rodney Thomas (Albemarle County Board of Supervisors) about local politics; taxes, economic development, school funding and emergency services. What needs would justify a tax increase? Doesn’t cutting the County budget affect area families through those lost jobs? How do we keep the schools so strong if we cut the budgets and trim the staff?
A look at Charlottesville’s Dialogue on Race
On May 16, Rick Moore (host) talked with Brenda Lambert and Dion Lewis and Sean McCord about Charlottesville’s Dialogue on Race. The event’s mission is to to discuss race, racism and diversity while identifying problems and proposing solutions and paths to action. Categories such as education, the economy, culture, the work place, and more were included. Visit the website if you are interested in taking action.
WNRN Wake-Up Call: Affordable Housing
Rick Moore (host) talks with Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris about affordable housing. If someone pays more than 30% of their income on housing, then that is unaffordable housing. In the city of Charlottesville alone, more than 50% of residents have unaffordable housing. Why should government help provide affordable housing? How can the major barrier of land cost be overcome? The questions and more during the hour. You can contact Dave Norris at cvilledave@hotmail.com
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?
WNRN Wake-Up Call: Water
Host Rick Moore talks with Kevin Lynch and Didi Smith (both from the group, Citizens for a sustainable water plan) about the solutions for the water storage in the Charlottesville and Albemarle area, which is used when there is a drought.
Wake-Up Call: Gail Milligan of RFB&D
During WNRN’s Spring Fundraiser, host Rick Moore and special co-host, Rick’s 6 year-old nephew Ren Hinchey interview Gail Milligan. She’s the Virginia director of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. RFB&D assists those with reading or ‘print’ disabilities through recordings of books.
Rick & Ren discover that textbooks and math books are recorded for users but ‘The Custodian from the Black Lagoon
WNRN Wake-Up Call: James Hilton, UVA VP and CIO
Sean McCord steps in as substitute host for Rick Moore and talks with James Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia, about how IT at UVA both reflects and affects technology in the broader community.
WNRN Wake-Up Call: Virginia General Assembly
Waldo Jaquith, the creator of Richmond Sunlight, joins Rick Moore to talk about the Virginia General Assembly. Richmond Sunlight provides an easy-to-use way to track legislation pending before the House of Delegates and the Senate.
WNRN Wake-Up Call: The Oscars
Sean McCord (usually one of the producers) talks with Adam Greenbaum (owner of the Visulite Cinema in Staunton and the Vinegar Hill Theater in Charlottesville), Tom DuMontier (coordinator and film reviewer for WNRN’s 91 seconds on film, Will Smith (another film reviewer for WNRN’s 91 seconds on film), Ben Nuckols (an associated press writer and longtime film reviewer at IllInformedGadfly.com), and Jody Kielbasa (talked briefly on the phone, director of the Virginia Film Festival) about the Oscars (which occur tonight on ABC) and who they think will win various categories.