WNRN’s Weekly Public Affairs Program
{ Monthly Archives }
On the August 17th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore hosts Mike Fietz, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with the Georgetown Veterinary Hospital, as they take calls and talk about modern treatment for pets. The conversation ranges from acupuncture for pain management, to cost containment when dealing with serious illness.a
This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call the conversation is all about the ‘Buy Local, Eat Local’ food scene. Area restaurateurs Kate Collier (Feast!) and Will Richey (Revolutionary Soup) join Melissa Harris and Jennifer Seidel from the new Flavor magazine along with host Rick Moore to discuss independent farms and sustainable agriculture. How do current Virginia laws help the large, industrial food system while hurting area farmers? How is it financially viable for a small restaurant to use better tasting but more expensive foods? Exactly what is a super-model vegetable and why are they to be shunned? What can you do to help this concept continue its growth?
On the August 17th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with UVA Professor Bradley Reed, specialist in Late Imperial and Modern China. The 2008 Olympics have served to introduce post-Mao China to the world. Our guest provides a sense of history and culture to modern China’s 21st century “coming out” party.
On the August 10th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, James Childress and Ruth Bernheim, co-directors of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia and Andrew Wicks, co-director of Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden Business School, join host Rick Moore to discuss ethics and practical ethics.
Some of the issues discussed were: What are ethics? What makes someone ethical? Does ethical automatically mean good? And what is the difference between ethics and morals? For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!
On the August 3rd edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Rick Moore discusses the artistic life with Beryl Solla, Chair of the Piedmont Virginia Community College Art Dept. and Gallery Curator; Laura Parsons, Arts Editor for The Hook, and Maggie Guggenheimer, Executive Director of the Piedmont Council of the Arts. In a wide-ranging conversation, these leaders in the local art scene explain how our lives and community are enriched by the arts, and why it is important to support local arts organizations.
