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.
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Bob Gibson of the Daily Progress updates us on Virginia politics
The two houses of the Virginia General Assembly adjourned yesterday without reaching an agreement over the state’s budget. Governor Tim Kaine has called legislators back to Richmond for a special session to convene on March 27th. Daily Progress political writer Bob Gibson dropped by WNRN to explain what’s going on in the March 12th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Gibson predicts a deal won’t be made until May.
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WNRN’s Wake-Up Call: The Annual Oscars Program for 2006
It’s Oscar night, and that means the moment everyone’s been waiting for all year. It’s WNRN’s annual Oscar program on the Wake-Up Call. Rick Moore speaks with the 91 Seconds on Film team about this year’s batch of entries. Tom Dumontier, Kim Lo and Ben Nuckols make their predictions.
In the monologue, Rick rails against the practice of giving celebrity presenters gift bags filled with such trinkets as Lasic surgery coupons and work-out sessions with Joe Frazier.
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Wake-Up Call: Should smoking be banned in Virginia’s restaurants?
A Virginia House committee voted down a bill to ban smoking in Virginia’s restaurants this week, but the topic is not going to go away. It’s been done all over Europe, and Britain will prohibit indoor smoking in all public places at the end of the year. Lisa McCade represents area smokers who are opposed to the ban. Andy McClure is one of the two owners of the Virginian and West Main.
Rick Moore says he’s a guest on this show, representing area residents who don’t smoke.
In the monologue, Rick wonders what all the fuss is over restless leg syndrome, and wonders if anyone is paying attention to other diseases that plague society.
Wake-Up Call: Offstage Theatre
On the February 19 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore was visited by members of Charlottesville’s Offstage Theatre. The show covers the differences between traditional and ‘offstage’ theatre and features a profile of the group’s upcoming season. The show is filled with small readings from a handful of the groups humor-filled one-act plays. full of talent and laughs.
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WNRN Wakeup Call: Love, Dating, Relationships, Marriage!
 What does this holy man have to do with love? |
With Valentine’s Day upon us again, Rick Moore and his guests enter into a discussion of love, dating, relationships, and marriage! There’s much mystery to the subject, and no one seems to know who Saint Valentine actually was. Sure, we could look it up on the Internet, but we’d prefer if you left a comment below with your best guess.
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Wake-Up Call: Paul Cantor on Pop Culture
As movies and television have aged, become older mediums, they also become more respected by academics and journalists. Among those who study pop culture is Paul Cantor, professor of English at the University of Virginia. He’s the author of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, a comparison of three hit shows from different decades. How is Gilligan’s Island representative of Americans in the 60’s? How do The Simpsons show different cultures in the small town of Springfield? Were you aware that The X-Files displayed the importance of the internet well before it became a part of everyday life? Rick Moore talks with Cantor in the February 5 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.
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Wake-Up Call: Sustainable Design in Charlottesville
The Charlottesville Waldorf School announced plans this week to become the “greenest school in America.” Here’s a bit from the press release.
It will feature a completely integrated “green” design featuring straw bale construction, a rammed earth wall, a living roof, geothermal heating and cooling, water reclamation and passive solar technologies.
How can spending a bit more money when contructing a new building save lots more money in electrical and other bills down the road? Can any contractor handle the ‘green’ job? How is the ecoMOD project moving from developing less expensive urban housing to assisting victims of hurricane Katrina? On this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Charlottesville Waldorf Foundation chair Sarah Tremaine joins U.Va Architecture professor John Quale for a discussion. Quale is the director of the ecoMOD project at the University.
The monologue touches on some of the average aspects of Americans. Rick Moore opines on how partisan political decisions are unfortunately average as well.
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Wake-up Call: What is a Sudbury School?
What role should students play in running the schools they attend? Should they be able to go to school and not have teachers? That’s the topic on this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Brenda Callen and Sue Frankel-Strait are helping to start the Friendship Sudbury School in Fluvanna County.
The idea is to let pupils direct their own studies, along the lines of those who are home-schooled. This “Sudbury” model of schooling began in Massachusetts as a democratic, non-compulsory form of education. Mark McCraig of the Fairhaven Sudbury School in Columbia, Maryland, calls in to talk about how his school works.
Rick’s monologue asks if it is possible to forgive a tragedy such as the recent mining accident in West Virginia.
The concept of adding a non-voting student member to the Albemarle County School Board was discussed this week on cvillenews.com.
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