2006 FORUM SHOWS

December 29, 2006, 2006 : The Year in Review

Listen to archived segments of this show:
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December 22 , 2006 Public Radio: Behind the Voices, Guest: Author Lisa Phillips

December 15, 2006 Swinging for the Fence: Can Minor League Sports Help Revive Dowtown Dayton? Guests: Don Baker, editor of the Dayton Business Journal; Sandy Gudorf, Downtown Dayton Partnership; Sherrie Myers, Professional Sports Marketing

December 8, 2006 Is Ohio Really Smoke-Free? Guests: Wendy Simpkins, Director of Corporate Communications for the American Cancer Society, Ohio Division Office, and led the education effort for Issue 5, Smoke Free Ohio; Matthew Fuerst Administrative Director, Tobacco Public Policy Center, Capital University Law School; Patrick Carroll, President of the Buckeye Liquor Permit Holders Association (the group that filed a lawsuit attempting to stop Ohio's smoking ban.)

December 1 , 2006 Charitable Giving: Protecting Your Good Intentions, Guests: Donna Childs, President & CEO of Better Business Bureau, Serving Dayton and the Miami Valley; Maureen Cranbuhl, Executive Director United Way Oxford and Vicinity

November 24, 2006 Our Overbooked Kids, Guests: Dr. Gail Friedman, Cincinnati Psychologist; Nancy Giles. Commentator for CBS News Sunday Morning (encore from July 7, 2006)

November 17, 2006 Animal Rescue and Adoption Guests: Leland Gordon Executive Director, Animal Friends Humane Society, Trenton, Ohio; Dr. Dave McGrew, Oxford Veterinary Hospital; and Damien Oxier, Director of Arrowhead Reptile Rescue

November 10, 2006 Charter Schools, Guests: Dr. Larry Sherman, Professor of Educational Psychology at Miami University; Aleta Benson - Principal - Richard Allen Schools, Hamilton Campus; Terry Ryan - Vice President for Ohio Programs & Policy with the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; Dr. Richard Hofman, retired Professor of Educational Leadership at Miami University

November 3 , 2006 An Election Town Hall " Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" You are invited to join us in the WMUB studios to share your opinions of the issues and candidates.

October 27, 2006 A New Agenda for Ohio: Reporter's Roundtable (an encore of a special broadcast from Tuesday evening October 24)

October 20, 2006 A New Agenda for Ohio: Jobs, the Economy & the Mimimum Wage (an encore of a special broadcast from Tuesday evening October 10)

October 13, 2006 Understanding our World Through Travel, Guest: Rick Steves, travel author, researcher and radio/TV host, including Travel With Rick Steves, Saturday mornngs at 7:00 on WMUB.

October 6 , 2006 A New Agenda for Ohio: Legalized Gambling in Ohio (an encore of a special broadcast from Tuesday evening October 3)

September 29, 2006 A New Agenda for Ohio: Religion and the Election, Guests: Rev. Eric Williams, Senior Pastor of North Congregational United Church of Christ Church, Columbus, Ohio; Rev. Russell Johnson of the Fairfield Community Church in Lancaster, Ohio ; the Rev. John Putka, political science lecturer at the University of Dayton; and Dr. Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of history at Miami University. (an encore of a special broadcast from Tuesday evening September 26)

September 22, 2006 Meet the President, Guest: Dr. David C. Hodge, Miami University President

September 15, 2006 Literacy in America Guests: Literacy in America, Guests: Stephen Gordon, Curator, William Holmes McGuffey Museum at Miami University; Dr. Kouider Mokhtari, Professer of Teacher Education, Miami University; Dr. Beth Frye, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Miami University; and Chris Earnhart, Executive Director of Warren County Adult New Readers. A special program originating from the Wiliam Holmes McGuffey Museum

September 8, 2006 Syndicated columnist, commentator and Middletown, Ohio native, Clarence Page.

September 1, 2006 The Future of Labor Unions, Guests: Doug Sizemore, Executive Board Member Cincinnati AFL-CIO; Jim Lawrence, Management Attorney with Frost, Brown and Todd LLC; Dr. Hilary Lerman – Assistant Professor of History, Miami University, Middletown

August 25, 2006 Ohio: Weird and Strange, Guests: Neil Zurcher, author of Strange Tales from Ohio True Stories of Remarkable People, Places and Events in Ohio History; and James Willis, co-author of Weird Ohio (encore from March 3, 2006)

August 18, 2006 Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Powers, Guests: Dr. Christopher Kelley, visiting assistant professor of Political Science at Miami University; and Bruce Fein, member of the American Bar Association task force on signing statements. Currently a constitutional lawyer and international consultant with the Lichfield Group in Washington, D.C.

August 11, 2006 Regional and State News in Perspective: A Reporters' Roundtable, Guests: Laura Bischoff, Columbus Bureau Correspondent for the Dayton Daily News; Lisa Bernard, reporter with the Hamilton Journal News; and Karen Kasler, Chief of the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau.

August 4 , 2006 State Mottoes in Public Schools, Guests: Gary Daniel, Litigation Coordinator for the ACLU of Ohio; Michael DePrimo, Senior Litigation Counsel, American Family Association Center for Law & Policy

July 28, 2006 The 2006 Dayton Air Show, Guests: Brenda Kerfoot, General Manager of the Vectren Dayton Air Show; a pilot from the F-16 demo team; Loren Dinneen - Director for Business and Economic Development at the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce; Sharon Sears, Marketing and PublicRelations Manager for the Dayton International Airport; Ann Honious, Historian at Dayton Aviation Heritage Historical Park; and Noah Adams, Senior Correspondent, National Public Radio and author of The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright

July 21, 2006 Uses (and Misuses) of Language, Guest: Dr. James Farrelly, professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton

July 14, 2006 Gas Prices & Fuel Alternatives, Guest: Myron Ebell, Director, Energy and Global Warming Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Sam Spofforth, Executive Director of Clean Fuels Ohio

July 7, 2006 Our Overbooked Kids, Guests: Dr. Gail Friedman, Cincinnati Psychologist; Nancy Giles. Commentator for CBS News Sunday Morning

June 30, 2006 How do you show your Patriotism? Guest: Miami University Distiguished Professor of History, Dr. Allan M. Winkler State Commander for the Department of Ohio American Legion.

June 23, 2006 Are You Being Scammed?, Guests: Sheri Sword, Director of Communications and Marketing, Dayton Better Business Bureau; Ken Binzer, Education and Marketing, Consumer Credit Counseling, Dayton; Shaun Peterson, Senior Deputy Ohio Attorney General, Division Chief of Consumer Protection

June 16, 2006 Father's Rights, Guest: Elizabeth Ann Yauch family attorney with Hedges and Yauch, Trenton, Ohio

June 9, 2006 What's Wrong with Ohio, Guest: Jerry Springer, TV and radio talk show host, and former Cincinnati mayor, Jerry Springer; Andrew Cayton, PhD, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University and author of: Ohio: The History of a People (Ohio State University Press, 2002)

June 2 , 2006 Legalized Gambling in Ohio, Guests: Jerry Long, Executive Director, Indiana Council for Problem Gambling; David Hopcraft, Ohio Learn and Earn; and Rob Walgate, The Ohio Roundtable

May 26, 2006 A Time to Remember Guests: Dan Conti, award-winning journalist and author of POWs: Stories from America's Wars; and Edgar Harrell, survivor of the USS Indianapolis whose story is recounted in Out of the Depths: A Survivor's Story of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (written by David Harrell)

May 19, 2006 The Fernald Cleanup, Guests: Joyce Bentle, filmmaker working with the Fernald Living History Project;
Johnny Reising, Department of Energy Site Director for Fernald; Dr. Gene Willike, retired Miami University professor and member of the Fernald Citizens Advisory Board

May 12, 2006 Would You Like Fries with That? Graduation and the Job Market Guests: Ron Hittle, Recruitment & Development Specialist, Sinclair Community College; Greg Hayes, Executive Director of Career Services at the University of Dayton; and Steve Browne, Past-President of the Greater Cincinnati Human Resources Association and Director. of Human Resources for CDS Associates, Cincinnati

May 5, 2006 Downtown Revitalization Guests: Don Baker, Editor, Dayton Business Journal; Sandy Gudorf, Vice President of the Downtown Dayton Partnership; Denise Rehg, President & CEO of Culture Works

April 28, 2006 Service Vacations, Guests: Bill Shepard, Executive Director of the Student Union, Wright State University; Katie Tolle, student at Miami University; Trayce Peterson, Director of Quaker and Campus Ministries, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; Laurel Johnson, Earlham College student; Diana Long, Director of Volunteer Resources & Community Outreach, Cincinnati Red Cross.

April 21, 2006 Meet the Mayors Guests: Rhine McLin, Mayor of Dayton, Ohio; Jerome Conley, Mayor of Oxford, Ohio; and Mark Mallory Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.

April 14, 2006 Immigration Legislation: What do you Think Will Work? Guests: Christine Link ­ Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio; Ohio District 54 State Representative Courtney Combs; Mike Flynn & Sylvia Castellanos of the Coalition for Dignity and Rights of Immigrants.

April 7, 2006 Why Shakespeare Matters, A special early celebration of "The Bard's" 442nd birthday. (b. April 23, 1564)

March 31, 2006 The Sound Effects Guy, Guest: Fred Newman, known for his performance with Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion and Public TV's Between the Lions, and author of MouthSounds: How to whistle, pop, boing and honk for all occasions and then some

March 24, 2006 Business Today: A CEO's View, Guest, Richard Smucker, President, Co-CEO, and CFO of The J. M. Smucker Company, Orville, Ohio

March 17, 2006 Living and Working Green: Options for Preserving and Protecting our Environment Guests: Sr. Paula Gonzales, creator of La Casa del Sol in Cincinnati; , Michael
Berning of Heapy Engineering, Dayton; and Richard Baker of PNC Bank

March 10, 2006 Iraq Today: An Update, Guests: Adeed Dawisha, PhD, professor of Political Science at Miami University; and Liam Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio and co-author of The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division?

March 3, 2006 Ohio: Weird and Strange, Guests: Neil Zurcher, author of Strange Tales from Ohio True Stories of Remarkable People, Places and Events in Ohio History; and James Willis, co-author of Weird Ohio

February 24, 2006 Black History Month: Does it Make a Difference?, Guest: Dr. Rodney Coates, Director of Black World Studies and professor at Miami University; and State Senator Eric Kearney (9th District)

February 17, 2006 Business Ethics, Guest: Dr. Paul Fiorelli, Director of the Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Xavier, University, Cincinnati; Joseph A. Petrick, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Business Integrity at Wright State University, Dayton; and Carmen Urbieta of Urbieta Construction, Inc, Dayton

February 10, 2006 Domestic Partner Benefits Guests: Ohio State Representative Tom Brinkman, originator of a lawsuit challenging Miami University's domestic partner benefits; Dr. Gillian Oakenfull, Associate Professor of Marketing, Miami University

February 3 , 2006 Planning Your Summer Travel Guest: Rick Steves, travel author, researcher and radio/TV host

January 27, 2006 An Agenda for Ohio, Guests: Bill Cohen, reporter for the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau and William Hershey, statehouse reporter for the Dayton Daily News, discussing Governor Robert Taft's annual State of the State Address.

January 20, 2006 Rethinking Presidential Power Guest: Dr. Christopher Kelley, visiting assistant professor of Political Science at Miami University

January 13, 2006 Cable or Satellite: How do you Choose?
Guests: Richard Hutchinson, Time Warner Cable; Andy Marko, Instructor, Mass Communications, Miami University; and Robert Mercer, spokesman for DIRECTV

January 6, 2006 Ask the General Manager (or the Program Director or the News Director) News Director Gary Scott hosts the program with "guests" General Manager Cleve Callison and Program Director John Hingsbergen

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