We continue our series of interviews with award-winning teachers by speaking with Jim McKeever, a music professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, who was recently given one of Parkside's faculty awards.
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In the wake of Father's Day, we speak with Bruce Feiler, author of "The Council of Dads." Feiler, a best-selling author, upon receiving a diagnosis of cancer several years ago, decided to seek out six men in his life who c
We speak with Rabbi Dan Selsberg, originally from Kenosha, who now serves a synagogue in Hamilton, Ontario.
We talk with Earl Swift about his new book "The Great Roads," which examines the history of highways in our country, with a particular focus on the creation of what has become our interstate highway system.
Postponed from last week: Travel expert Rick Steves talks about the new pocket-sized travel guides he has written.
Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit to the program and is joined by Roger Zacharias, the current head of the Gateway Board.
We interview the directors and producers of "The Kings of Pastry," a documentary which opens the newest season of the PBS series P.O.V.
We preview the upcoming Salute to Freedom event at the Civil War Museum in downtown Kenosha - and also bid farewell to Paula Touhey, who is retiring as director the Kenosha Public Museum.
Greg Baer, Associate Professor of Moderns Languages at Carthage College, is the most recent recipient of Carthage's Outstanding Teaching Award.
Professor Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College, offers analysis of current events, including the urgent matter of our nation's debt ceiling and the possible consequences if that ceiling is not raise
We speak with Mira Grant, the author of one of the most acclaimed new zombie books, "Deadline" and explore what might behind the genre's resurgent popularity.
Dr. William Hanson, author of "Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors will Revolutionize Health Care."
From the archives: Paul Savarese shares about the experience he and his wife had in adopting a boy with severe autism.
Byron Johnson, author of "More God, Less Crime," an examination of how religious belief might be related to the likelihood of a given person committing a crime.
Marcia Cannon, author of "The Gift of Anger," in which she writes about how anger can be a positive force in our lives and world.
Matt Logelin, author of 'Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love" His wife died 27 hours after giving birth to their daughter - sothe book is mostly about his joys and struggles as a single dad.
Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht is joined by two representatives of the Gateway Foundation.
An interview from the archives: Jane Leavy, author of "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Child."
Stephen Tignor, author of "High Strung," a book about the fierce rivalry between tennis greats Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.
Stanley Nelson, writer/producer/director of the documentary "Freedom Riders" which airs tonight on the PBS series American Experience.
Luca Spaghetti, author of "Un Amico Italiano: Eat Pray, Love in Rome." He figures prominently in Elizabeth Gilbert's famous bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love."
Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of the best-selling novel "Secret Daughter," which touches on topics of adoption, clash of cultures and balance of work and family.
We speak with award-winning and best-selling novelist Lisa Jackson about her career and about her latest novel, "Devious."
David Maack from Racine County Emergency Management. He'll talk about severe weather, and will offer some comments on the recent disastrous storms in the south.
Father J. Bryan Hehir, Montgomery Professor of the JFK School at Harvard, and Secretary for Health Care and Social Sciences for the Archdiocese of Boston. He's the most recent executive-in-residence at Carthage.
Tim Flannery, author of "Here on Earth," a fascinating look at the history of the planet and our place on it.
Our guest, Charles Clotfelter, talks about his new book "Big-Time Sports in American Universities," in which he explores how athletics - especially football and basketball - has come to be such a gigantic part of so many m
We talk about the proposal for much stricter voter registration in Wisconsin with Jay Heck from Common Cause; also with us will be Jerald Mast, a member of the political science faculty at Carthage College.
WGTD's Dr. Steve Brown, co-writer Michael Ullstrup and actor Gary Stamm talk about their most recent play, "A Fireside Chat: A Conversation FDR," which is about U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
We speak with RIchard McLaughlin, an instructor in Microbiology at GTC about his work with the endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise.
We'll talk with Rob Lilwall, author of "Cycling Home from Siberia," which talks about the 3-year bicycle trek he took from Siberia, through Japan, China, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, India, Pakistan, Iran and other co
For the UEC's monthly visit to the program, we speak with John LePoint, who is an expert on water harvesting for both homes and businesses.
We speak with Professor Anthony Alofsin, who is the most recent Johnson Distinguished Visitor to Carthage College.
We preview this Saturday's Kenosha broadcast of "Whad'ya Know" by talking with musician John Sieger, a longtime friend of Michael Feldman, who will be featured on the broadcast.
We discuss the situation in Japan with two professors from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside: Dr. Jeff Alexander (history) and Dr.
We spend most of the hour with Michael Feldman, creator and host of public radio's "Whadya Know," which has been on the air since 1985. . .
Our guest, Phillip Graves, calls into the question of the worth of market research in his new book "Consumerology: The Market Research Myth, the Truth about Consumers, and the Psychology of Shopping." In the book, he exten
We speak with journalist Deborah Potter, now executive director of the NewsLab, about a column she wrote for "American Journalism Review" in which she offers some thoughts about National Public Radio and how she hopes they
Part one of today's program is a conversation with Ann Hodgman, author of the Beat This! Cookbook, which has just been reprinted.
We speak with best-selling author Jennifer Lauck about her latest book, "Found: A Memoir," which explores her experience of being given up for adoption, her search for her birth mother, and how complex that reunion turned