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On March 22, 1986, U.Va physiology student Patrick Collins disappeared into thin air, after using an ATM machine in downtown Charlottesville. Two weeks later, people began asking questions about where he was. Was he murdered, or did he simply walk away from his life? Hook columnist Barbara Nordin joins Rick Moore on this installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to discuss the case.
In the monologue, Rick laments the impersonal nature of the digital age.
For a full list of the 2006 Muzzles, visit the Thomas Jefferson Center’s website. For an in-depth report, check out Liesel Nowak’s article on the Daily Progress.
A look at the effort to publish all of Jefferson’s papers from his retirement from the presidency to his death in 1826.
Heart failure is the number one reason people die in the United States, but cardiologists say early diagnosis can reduce the mortality rate. To help physicians identify early warning signs, drug manufacturer Astra-Zeneca has built a virtual reality simulator to put doctors in the shoes of those with weakening hearts. The Heart FX Pod rolled into Charlottesville earlier this month, and I stopped by for this report.
This report was supported in part by the Daily Progress. Visit their Healthology section for health and science related features, polls, links and videos.
Activists at the University of Virginia this week rallied outside a meeting of the school’s Board of Visitors to ask the University to pay a “living” wage to all of its employees. Two people who marched for higher pay join Rick Moore on this week’s installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. They are Teresa Daniels and Kevin Simowitz.
Next week’s show will feature Barbara Nordin of the Hook, who will look at the case of former U.Va medical student Patrick Collins, who has been missing for the past twenty years. Was he murdered, or did he just simply walk away from his life? Tune in Sunday April 16 at 11:00 AM to hear what Nordin has to say.
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Last Thursday, the group Public Policy Virginia held a public forum on the use of biofuels to help ease the nation’s addiction to oil. Dan Daniels of the Charlottesville Podcasting Network has edited down the event to a one-hour digest. Speakers include: Tom Whipple, columnist for the Falls Church News-Press and editor of a daily newsletter on Peak Oil; Kevin Comer, Senior Project Manager with Antares Group, Inc.; Chad Freckmann, Executive Director of Blue Ridge Clean Fuels and organizer of the quarterly Virginia Biofuels Forum; and Al Weed, Chairman of Public Policy Virginia.
This Public Policy Virginia event received corporate support from Colonial Auto Center, Jim Price Chevrolet, Greenlight Energy, and Piedmont Equipment Company/John Deere, Whole Foods Market and Old Mill Power Company. The forum was co-sponsored by Democracy for America, the Virginia Organizing Project, the Virginia Grassroots Coalition, the League of Women Voters, Piedmont Environmental Council, the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club, Blue Ridge Clean Fuels, and the UVA student Environmental Science Organization.
Splendidly poised to coexist with the winter of the soul and the spring of the ever-bright world, Barry Fritztravalis is pleased to have compiled another glimpse into previous days and years to hear the ever-longing echo of the Notes That Were. This installment is only made possible through a bold new sponsorship by one of the show’s most popular artists.
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We’re pleased to post a link to a new podcast produced here in Charlottesville. Canine Campus promises Positive Dog Training in a series of podcasts on Adult and Adolescent Obedience. In this second of two episodes produced so far, Trainer Deven Gaston digs deep in to the fundamentals of something called “positive reinforcement.”
On this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call Rick Moore speaks with Willie Dodson of Mountain Justice Summer and Bill McCabe with the Sierra Club about efforts to prevent mountaintop coal removal.
 Lt. Governor Bill Bolling(photo credit: Larry Banner) |
Every year, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce holds the Commonwealth Breakfast, where officials in state government give their thoughts on the politics of the day. This year, the keynote speaker is Lieutenant Governor William Bolling, who speaks for twenty-three minutes on the Virginia way in government. Bolling’s remarks are followed by comments from Senators Emmet Hanger (R-24) and Creigh Deeds (D-25) and Delegates Rob Bell (R-58), Steve Landes (R-25) and David Toscano (D-57).
| Legal news commentator and reporter Joan Biskupic, discusses her new biography, Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice. This event is part of the 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book, and is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. |
On Monday, March 27, the Satellite Ballroom will show a 1922 silent western called Big Stakes. But, the room will be far from quiet, as an electic trio from Boston called the Devil Music Ensemble will be providing the soundtrack. I recently spoke with guitarist Brendan Wood about the group and present this preview.
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