Wake-Up Call: Albemarle County Public Schools Budget/ Virginia

Rick Moore (host) talks with Jane Kulow (part of Albemarle County Public Schools parent council), Chelsea Henderson (part of Monticello High School student council), and Ryan Shell (social studies at Albemarle High School) about the Albemarle County Public Schools budget, and how it will effect the schools in Virginia, in general. Albemarle County will be having a 4 x 4 schedule next year due to budget cuts, and many are opposed to it because it might affect the quality of education. Also, other programs will be cut to save money.

WNRN Wake-Up Call: Current Political Issues

Rick Moore (host of Wake-up call) talks with Jim Sofka (used to teach international relations at UVA, now part of adjunct faculty at the Federal executive institute and at the American Military University) and Pete Ronayne (part of senior faculty at the Federal executive institute and an adjunct professor at UVA). Their discussion contains topics such as health care, Obama’s presidency, Ted Kennedy’s seat, and the balance of Democrats and Republicans in the house.

Wake-Up Call: Intuitive Analyst Lee Channing

Rick Moore talks with Lee Channing, an intuitive analyst or psychic. Channing has had skills like these all her life, and reads into people’s energy. She answers questions about the new year, and talks about feelings with colors. Her advice is to wear colors you feel comfortable in more often, and pink, blue, and purple have been found to help people’s energy the most.

Wake-Up Call: George Washington

Rick Moore talks with Carol Abel (editor) and Jenifer Stertzer (editor of the digital version) who are working on collecting papers of George Washington for a project called the papers of George Washington. This project has been going on since 1969. He also talks with Erica B. Mitchell (student leader of project), Carolyn Needham (committee leader), and Crystal Yi (committee leader) about their civility project. When George Washington was sixteen years old he followed a set of civility rules. The civility project is trying to modernize the rules. You can submit rules at the civility project website: http://pgwdocdatabase.org/civility/

Wake-Up Call: The State of Local Transportation

Lisa Horanyi joined Rick Moore in the studio to discuss a recent survey on local transportation conducted by the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. Horanyi, Program Manager at RideShare, explained the results of the survey and how it’s prompted an initiative to expand the availability of public transportation in Central Virginia.

For more on the survey, you can view a presentation with some of the results here.

The Wake-Up Call is broadcast every Sunday at 11 a.m. on WNRN.