WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call

Host Rick Moore speaks with R k Ramazani (Professor Emeritus, UVA Government & Foreign Affairs Professor, author, has advised President Jimmy Carter, etc.) about the recent events in Egypt. The president of Egypt, Honsi Mubarak, stepped down from his position earlier this week after serving many years in office. They talk about things such as how the role of Egypt’s military could change, how change to Egypt’s government can take a long time, and how the new role of government may not be what the people want.

 

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On the December 12 Wake-Up Call, Rick talked with Dr. Chris Winter of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Sleep Medicine Center about the science of sleep and sleeplessness.

 

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Host Rick Moore talks with Rodney Thomas (Albemarle County Board of Supervisors) about local politics; taxes, economic development, school funding and emergency services.  What needs would justify a tax increase?  Doesn’t cutting the County budget affect area families through those lost jobs?  How do we keep the schools so strong if we cut the budgets and trim the staff?

 

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On the July 6, 2008 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, real estate blogger Jim Duncan talks with Rick Moore about the state of the Central Virginia housing market. Is it a good time to sell your house? Should you move from renting to owning? Find out more in this podcast from the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.

 

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Mental health is the topic of this week’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN. Paul Patrick, the founder of On Our Own, and Frank Blankenship of MindFreedom International, both Mental Health Advocacy groups, join host Rick Moore in the studio. They also consider themselves to be psychiatric survivors, having both been forcibly committed to mental health hostipals. The conversation starts off with the $42 million mental health bill Governor Kaine signed into law last month, and moves on to a discussion about prescription drugs, and their long-term effects. Do Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors (used to treat depression) help or harm the patient? What do psychiatric professionals have to say about it?

The guests and callers also talk about the road to recovery for those with mental health issues - what role do drugs and hostipal committment play in the process? What about more extreme treatments, such as shock therapy?

Find out what members of the community think about these questions, and leave your own responses to the show by commenting after you listen!

 

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On the December 9th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, Commonwealth Attorney-elect for Albemarle County Denise Lunsford joined Rick in the studio. She talks about her experiences with running in the highly contested race against Jim Camblos, and more generally about life in the public eye.

Rick opens the show with a monologue about gift giving.

 

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Is there a level at which Albemarle County should stop growing? That’s the assertion of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP), a group that is studying how many people the area’s natural resources can support. Board members Jack Marshall , Tom Olivier, and Jeff Sobel join Rick Moore on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to talk about a sustainable population can be maintained, and how what ASAP is doing affects other counties. Callers also chime in with their questions and concerns as well.

 

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This week on the Wake-Up Call, two local car mechanics visited the studio to talk with callers about car problems in an hour long “Automobile Discussion.” Steve Bullock and WNRN’s own Rusty Cempre answer questions about prepping your car for the winter season, what to check when buying a used car, and provide other useful information about your car. When should you take your car to a dealership versus an independent mechanic? What types of types of tires are best for your car? Find out the answers to these questions and more, only on the Wake-Up Call.

Host Rick Moore opened the show with a call to Jeanne McCuscker, who runs Home Instead Senior Care, which sponsors the Be a Santa to a Senior charity program.

 

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Richard Herzkowitz, artistic director of the Virginia Film Festival, talks about decisions and challenges of putting together the film festival each year. Terri Allard gives input on “Kid Pan Alley“, the songwriting of local elementary school children. Celebrity guests, recruitment, unusual acts and stories from the past round out this hour of the Wakeup Call.

 

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