The Morning Show

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht

John Hambrock, creator of the comic strip "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee," which has just begun its 15th year of syndication.

Brian Vikander, author of "Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball's Fastest Pitcher." 

Nan Calvert's monthly visit- with Willie Karadis, project manager for Route of the Badger and with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. 

Two conversations about COVID-19 with two of Greg Berg's relatives:  Dr.

Laura Gellott, retired from the history faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about her new book "Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime." 

Lenora Chu, author of "Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve."  

Brian Muraresku, author of "The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Names."  The author examines the use of psychedelic substances in various religions dating back to ancient Greece. &nbsp

Part One:  Belinda Thielen, local Quaker, talks about an initiative called Choose Democracy that seeks to safeguard the integrity of our democracy as well as the integrity of the 2020 election.

No Morning Show.  We will remain with NPR's live coverage of election results.

In part one: a 2002 interview with Judith Martin, a k a Miss Manners,  discussing her book "Star Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (for a change).

Elizabeth Mitchell, author of "Lincoln's Lie: A True Civil War Caper through Fake News, Wall Street and the White House."

Part one: Holly Stanfield talks about directing KUSD musical theater productions during COVID.  Part two: James Schatzman talks about a special musical offering by the Choral Arts Society being shared (virtually) on O

First District U.S. Congressman Bryan Steil and challenger Roger Polack. 

Dr. Art Cyr,  Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College.

Walter Koenig, author of "Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek."  Koenig portrayed the role of Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series. 

Kenneth C. Davis, author of "Strongman:  5 Dictators and the Fall of Democracy." 

Re-scheduled from yesterday:  Bryan Albrecht,  president of Gateway Technical College,  and Cheryl Carrier,  CEO of Ford Next Generation Learning.  Ford NGL has partnerships with school districts a

 TODAY'S MORNING SHOW WAS PREEMPTED BY NPR'S LIVE COVERAGE OF EVENTS IN WASHINGTON DC INVOLVING THE SUPREME COURT NOMINATION PROCESS.   TODAY'S INTERVIEW CAN STILL BE HEARD IN THE PODCAST VERSION OF THE PROG

Mary-Frances Winters, author of "Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit."  

Nan Calvert's monthly visit is a conversation about wetlands and wetlands restoration with Joshua Brown from the Wisconsin DNR.

Ben Loeterman, writer-producer-director for "Walter Winchell: the Power of Gossip,"  the latest documentary for the PBS series  American Masters.  The film airs Tuesday evening.   Winchell was a po

Rosemarie Day, author of "Marching towards Coverage:  How Women can lead the fight for Universal Healthcare."  

Tom Nagorski, author of "Miracles on the Waters: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack."

Michael K. Bohn, author of "Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room."  (from 2003)

Anthony Swofford, (author of "Jarhead") discusses another powerful and personal memoir,  "Hotels, Hospitals and Jails." 

A preview of Carthage's second annual Aspire Conference,  "Navigating a New World,"  which is open to the entire community- and is free of charge! 

Dr. Samuel Myers, author of "Planetary Health:  Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves."  Dr. Myers is the founder of the Planetary Health Alliance.

Max Klau, author of "Race and Social Change:  A Quest, a Study, a Call to Action."

Thea Keshavarzi previews the Kenosha Symphony's concert this coming weekend at the Kemper Center. 

Jack Rose, president of the Kenosha County chapter of NAMI- the National Alliance on Mental Illness.   This week is National Mental Illness Awareness Week. 

Darin Strauss, author of "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story."

Ted Williams, author of "Earth Almanac,"  written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

Deborah Tannen,  author of "Finding My Father:  His Century Long Journey from World War One Warsaw and My Quest to Follow" 

Dr. Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business

Part One:  Carlo Nevicosi,  Walworth County Health Dept, with a COVID update. Part Two:   Dr. Inder Paul Singh, President of the Eye Centers of Racine and Kenosha.

Postponed from last week: Brad Balukjian, author of "The Wax Pack:  On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife."  

PROGRAM NOTE:  TODAY'S MORNING SHOW BROADCAST IS PARTIALLY PRE-EMPTED IN ORDER TO BRING YOU NPR'S LIVE COVERAGE OF THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, WHICH BEGINS AT 8:30.

Tentatively Scheduled: Kenosha mayor John Antaramian. Also: Jo Frost,  television's Super Nanny, talks about her new show on Lifetime television. 

PROGRAM CHANGE:   Todd D.

Lorene Cary, author of "Ladysitting:  My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century." 

Richard Stein, Director of Law Enforcement Training at Gateway Technical College, and Raymond Clark, an instructor in GTC's Law Enforcement Academy. 

Beth Bender and Pasquale Laurino talk about the Racine Symphony's year-long project involving Vivaldi's "Four Seasons."

Nan Calvert - with Megan Severson, state director of Wisconsin Environment,  a powerful advocacy group on behalf of various statewide environmental issues and concerns. 

Jim Hock, author of "Father on the Line: a Memoir." 

Bruce Boise, author of "Cold Comfort: One Man's Struggle to Stop the Illegal Marketing of Opioid Drugs and Save Lives."  

Part One: Kenosha's own Nick Daly, now a music theater major at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, talks about winning first place in Playbill Magazine's Search for a Star Contest.

Part One:  Ellis Cose, author of "Bone to Pick:  Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge."   Part Two:  "The Game,"  by Stuart Ray Clarke- a book celebrating the importance of

Dr. Bryan Albrecht, president of Gateway Technical College and Mary Burgoon, from Rockwell Automation.

Tom Cooper, author of "Doing the Right Thing:  12 Portraits in Moral Courage."