Dr. John Swallow, President of Carthage College,  looks back at the challenges of the 2020-2021 school year and looks ahead at the year to come - and also talks about Carthage's decision to relinquish 'Redmen' in favor of 'Firebirds." 

David M. Elcott, co-author of "Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy."  

MacKenzi Lee, author of "Gamora and Nebula:  Sisters in Arms." 

We speak with Melissa Kaprelian and CJ Rouse, mother and son, who both serve on the Racine City Council.  

Curtis Wilkie, author of "When Evil Lived in Laurel: The 'White Knights' and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer."  This is the story of an especially vicious chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, known as the White Knights - their murder of a voting rights activist named Vernon Dahmer - as well as the story of a white citizen in Laurel who was willing to become a member of the White Knights in order to serve as an undercover informant for the F.B.I.

(from 2019)  Matt Richtel discusses his book "An Elegant Defense:  The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System:  A Tale in Four Lives."  

From 2004 - just one of a number of interviews I recorded over the years with author Michael Craft (Johnson) when he lived in Kenosha.   (He now lives in Palm Springs, FL and is still writing.)  

Rocco Constantino, author of "Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier: The Story of African-Americans in Major League Baseball,  Past, Present and Future."  

We talked about Kenosha Harbor Marketplace with Andrea Forgianni, the new executive director of the market.  Her father,  the late Ray Forgianni, co-founded the market in 2003 and oversaw its operation until last year.   He served Kenosha for many years as City Planner. 

We get a COVID update from Carlo Nevicosi, Walworth County's Interim director of Public Health, including some interesting information on the vast contrast in vaccination rates throughout the county and what seems to be the primary factor at play.