Perspectives (WXXI)
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This week Perspectives details the life of a Rochester,...
Antonelli will discuss his storied life from Rochester's Jefferson High School to a sterling 1948-50 and 1953-61 major-league pitching career with the Boston and Milwaukee Braves, New York and San Francisco Giants, and Cleveland Indians to a second, equally successful career with Johnny Antonelli Firestone Tires.
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This week Perspectives details an event that has never...
The park: Rochester, New York's Frontier Field. The two Triple-A teams: the Rochester Red Wings, playing 72 home games, and the Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania,...
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This week Perspectives continues its series on local...
In this show, Bill Nojay, the possible Republican nominee for the 133rd District New York State Assembly seat.
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This week, with political season already much in season,...
The series begins with the former chairman of the Monroe County Democratic Party, current Minority Leader of the Monroe County Legislature, and recently announced Democratic Party candidate for the fifty-fifth District New York State Senate seat. T
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This week Perspectives explores an extended but...
John Crowley is the founder and president of the popular Rochester, New York-based company, Biznetix, specializing in the web site. He explores that and other aspects of the personal computer: the Internet, Googling, Facebook, and ...
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This week Perspectives spends its entire hour with a man...
Jim Memmott grew up in Upstate New York, taught American Literature at St. Lawrence University, joined the Rochester Times-Union and then Democrat Chronicle newspapers, and also teaches Journalism today at the University of Rochester. ..
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This week Perspectives explores early innings.
Kara Streeter is the Rochester, New York, Hearing and Speech Center's school psychologist. She discusses the early stages of a child's life: the need for parents to talk and read to young children; the importance of culture, family, and scholarship; and the ability of boys and girls under five to six years of age to more readily assimilate information
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This week Perspectives hails pioneers. Kenneth Adelman...
Former Untied States Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and key advisor to President Reagan in three superpower summits with Soviet General Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, 1986, and 1987. On Wednesday, May 2, Adelman will discuss ales and Times of Ronald Reagan....
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This week Perspectives hails pioneers.
Kenneth Adelman is among America's most celebrated diplomats: former Untied States Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and key advisor to President Reagan in three superpower summits with Soviet General Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev...
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This week Perspectives spends its entire hour with a man...
Jim Memmott grew up in Upstate New York, taught American Literature at St. Lawrence University, joined the Rochester Times-Union and then Democrat Chronicle newspapers, and also teaches Journalism today at the University of Rochester.
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This week, Perspectives devotes its entire hour to food....
He details the changing food tastes of undergraduate college students -- in that sense, outlining the new Fusion Market on the SUNY at Geneseo campus.
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This week Perspectives examines different sides of the...
Usually, students of a long-ago Presidency analyze it by using observations of people who were not alive at the time. Daniel Gorman, age twenty, is a sophomore at a Western New York university. He wrote a term paper, which led to a major role at a national conference, by collecting observations of people who had been alive when Franklin Roosevelt was ..
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This week Perspectives devotes its entire hour to a man...
Don Stevens, since 1986 the play-by-play Voice of the American Hockey League Rochester Americans. Born in the Canadian province of Alberta, Stevens will discuss how he entered broadcasting, memories of the Americans including thousands awaiting their early-morning arrival in Rochester to celebrate a 1987 Calder Cup title, and the team's once and again..
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This week Perspectives explores higher education.
Jim Milroy is Vice President for Administration and Finance, the State University of New York at Geneseo, responsible for the college's financial operations. Dr. Milroy details the SUNY system's assets and challenges. Robin Mamlet is co-author of a new book published by Random House, College Admission From Application to Acceptance: Step by Step.
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In the musical The Music Man, actor Robert Preston as...
Bob Smith. This week Perspectives explores the listening territory of Western New York. The show's guest for the entire hour is a man who has broadcast in both Buffalo and Rochester since the 1970s.
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This week Perspectives presents an astounding story of...
As age four, Douglas MacKinnon almost froze to death in a car from a blizzard while his parents got drunk in a nearby bar. At nine, he was trying to sleep on a filthy floor mattress when his mother shot a full clip of bullets into the bedroom. By 15, he was rolling pennies to buy food and medicine for his ailing sister.
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This week Perspectives examines noise.
One guest, Thomas Gibbons, President of the Rochester, New York, Hearing and Speech Center, discusses noise's volume -- its effect, ubiquity, and damage. He compares workplace and recreational noise, noting how each can lessen hearing, and details the Center's new initiative, "Too Loud?"
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This week Perspectives answers the question, Are you...
Reviewing the most recent Super Bowl, and the National Football League's appeal across the land. Pete Fierle, born in Bufffalo, heads digital media and communications at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, birthplace of the NFL. He explores what the Hall of Fame is, does, and means to visitors. Scott Pitoniak is the author of 15 books...
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This week Perspectives examines competition.
John Harris, born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Pittsford, is Editor-in-Chief of Politico and Political.com, the nationally-known Arlington, Virginia, based political news organization. He will explore the 2012 Republican Presidential contest, the battle between candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the candidacy of Barack Obama, ...
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This week Perspectives examines something Western New...
Chris Schultz, head varsity hockey coach at the State University of New York, explores the rise in regional interest of hockey at every level, including high school and college. Scott Hesko is chief meteorologist for Rochester, New York television channels 7 and 8, its Fox and CBS outlets, respectively.
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This week Perspectives focuses on the theme of family.
As the Empire State's three-term Governor, Mario Cuomo often used the term "the family of New York" in his annual State of the State address. Recently, his son, Governor Andrew Cuomo, focused on that family's health in his State of the State address. Buffalo News business columnist and reporter Dave Robinson discusses what the speech said, meant, ...
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This week Perspectives discusses major news of the week.
First, John Wawrow, Associated Press sports correspondent, explores current issues of interest to upstate New York: football's Buffalo Bills' final 6-10 record
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This week Perspectives presents its annual New Year's...
Two of America's finest journalists look back at 2011, and ahead to 2012. New York Post columnist and state editor Fred Dicker explores the Empire State, including the first year of Andrew Cuomo as Governor. How has Cuomo changed Albany?
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This week Perspectives examines noise.
One guest, Thomas Gibbons, President of the Rochester, New York, Hearing and Speech Center, discusses noise's volume -- its effect, ubiquity, and damage. He compares workplace and recreational noise, noting how each can lessen hearing, and details the Center's new initiative, "Too Loud?"
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This week Perspectives explores local and New York State...
Bob McCarthy, Buffalo News political columnist and reporter, discusses what the recent election of a Democrat as Erie County Executive means. Is the Niagara Frontier returning to Democratic dominance?
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This week Perspectives begins a recurring series, "I...
According to a number of polling firms, including Gallup and Harris, the most effective U.S. major-party acceptance speech since then was Richard Nixon's at the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami. It converted millions of viewers, swelled his lead over Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, and was crucial to Nixon's narrow victory in November.
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This week Perspectives examines the issue of sexual abuse that has cast a cloud over both. At Penn State, iconic football coach Joe Paterno was fired in the wake of a long-time assistant coach being charged with sexually abusing at least eight young boys from 1994 to 2009. At Syracuse, an assistant to legendary basketball coach Jim Boeheim has been ...
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Every year Perspectives devotes an entire program to the...
This week's guest's name is synonymous with the electronic media -- Bruce DuMont, the nephew of Allen B. DuMont, inventor of the cathode ray tube and founder of the DuMont Television Network. Bruce DuMont is syndicated and XM Radio host of the series Beyond the Beltway and president and founder of the Museum of Broadcast Commmunications and the National
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This week Perspectives presents a preview of coming...
George Conboy is President of Brighton Securities in Brighton, New York, a suburb of Rochester. He examines the future of the economy nationally and in Upstate New York.
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This week Perspectives details hopefully many happy...
Mark Peterson, President and CEO of Greater Rochester Enterprise, discusses recent New York State Department of Labor statistics showing the Rochester area to be Upstate's job engine. Dr. Noreen Boje, Doctor of Education, Speech-Language Pathologist, and Director of Speech Operations, Rochester Hearing and Speech Center, details the Center's new program
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This week Perspectives celebrates an annual tradition:...
Founder of the Utica, New York, polling firm Zogby International, Mr. Zogby will detail in particular the 2012 Presidential election to occur a year from now. Is President Obama the underdog against a generic Republican? How closely is his fate tied to the faltering economy?
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This week Perspectives devotes its entire hour to an...
The October 19-22 National Preservation Conference, sponsored by the prestigious Washington, D.C.-based National Trust for Historic Preservation, to be held in Buffalo. Dr. Frank Kowsky, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York at Buffalo, discusses why this conference was awarded to the Queen City.
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This week Perspectives explores the theme of decisions.
Dr. Carol Long is the Provost of the State University of New York at Geneseo in Geneseo, New York. She examines the differences between a small and large liberal arts college, and which may best fit a particular student and family. The Rochester Democrat Chronicle newspaper columnist and reporter Jim Mandelaro details the relationship between baseball
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This week Perspectives explores a fascinating and...
Michael Harrington is an award-winning Buffalo News columnist. He details the great expectations for hockey's Buffalo Sabres as they begin their regular-season. What difference has new owner Terry Pegula made on and off the ice? Can the Sabres win their first Stanley Cup?
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This week Perspectives explores a timeless literary...
Les Pickel is the editor of numerous anthologies and Associate Publisher of Warner Books. He explains what anthology is, how fiction and nonfiction differ, and how the art form works. Andrew Blauner heads Blauner Books and edited the anthology Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference. Its contributors included such writers as George Pli
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This week Perspectives examines the professional...
Paul Dickson is the author of 57 nonfiction books, most on American English language and popular culture, including Sputnik, Dwight Eisenhower, and Cold War history. His newest book is the third edition of the Dickson Baseball Dictionary: The Definitive Work on the Language of Baseball, termed by the Wall Street Journal
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The great Jackie Gleason used to say, A little traveling...
This week Perspectives emulates The Great One, exploring travel in and around Upstate New York. First, well-known broadcaster Mike O'Brian, the "Getaway Guy" on YNN TV Rochester, New York, discusses his book: "The Getaway Guy: Road Trip Getaways with Mike O'Brian"
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This week Perspectives details several things common to...
Hank Greenwald grew up in the Rochester suburb of Brighton, graduated from Syracuse University, and became a famed sportscaster for, among other teams, baseball's Yankees, A's, and Giants.
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This week Perspectives explores quality.
First, Buffalo News political columnist Bob McCarthy etches the recent New York State 26th Congressional District special election to replace Republican Chris Lee, who resigned earlier this year. What does Democrat Kathy Hochul's stunning election mean?
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On May 24, a special election will be held to choose Chris Lee's successor in New York State's 26th Congressional District. Buffalo News political writer and columnist Bob McCarthy discusses a fascinating three-person race in the usually Republican district among the GOP's Jane Corwin, Democrat Kathy Hochul, and Ted Party candidate Jack Davis.
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This week Perspectives continues its series on...
First, the show explores medicine with John Buckley, M. D. of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Buckley is a well-respected primary care physician -- once called a general practitioner.
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This week Perspectives continues its series on...
Molly Smith Metzler, 33, is among America's leading young playwrights, her works including Training Wisteria, Close Up Space, and current Elemano Pea. She discusses her training at the State of University of New York at Geneseo, Boston University, and the Julliard School; how she structures plot, dialogue, and persona; and what theater-goers expect ...
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This week Perspectives begins a series on professions --...
Bob Wolff, America's longest-running radio and television sportscaster, discusses broadcasting. The author of the new book, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting: How to Make It With or Without Talent, Emmy Award recipient, and only man to air the title game in this Nation's four main professional sports describes how to start on radio/TV, market
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This week Perspectives presents its annual opening month...
Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, is the co-editor of a new book, The Cambridge Companion to Baseball, which author and former pitcher Jim Bouton says "packs the [sport's] entire history into one book." Then, Rochester Democrat Chronicle reporter and columnist Jim Mandelaro examines the history and future of Western New York
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This week Perspectives explores what's happening to the...
Fred Dicker is the state editor and award-winning columnist of the New York Post. He examines New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's first three months in office. Having enacted a budget to close New York's $10 billion deficit without new fees or taxes. will Cuomo now campaign for a 2 percent property tax cap to ease the tax crippling Upstate's economy?
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This week Perspectives explores the state of Upstate New...
Benjamin Wachs is a columnist for GateHouse Media, including Rochester, New York's Messenger-Post Newspapers. He examines this week's surprisingly close election for Mayor of Rochester between Democratic Party candidate Tom Richards and Working Families and Independent parties nominee Bill Johnson.
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This week Perspectives explores teaching, speaking, and...
Caroline Tucker is the political reporter for Rochester, New York's CBS Television affiliate WROC. She details the March 29 special election for Mayor of Rochester, including the two leading candidates: Democratic Party nominee Tom Richards and the Working Families and Independent parties' nominee William Johnson.
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This week Perspectives examines a single subject through...
This week's subject: politics. Guest: Bob McCarthy, longtime Buffalo News political reporter and columnist, named among New York State's ten most influential journalists. McCarthy has covered six New York Governors, attended ten national conventions, and been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He critiques each of these Governors, discusses races like...
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This week Perspectives looks ahead.
First, Dr. James Pierson, President of the William E. Simon Foundation and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses his opinion column in The Wall Street Journal on the difference in college curricula between Harvard and Columbia: literally, two schools of thought adopted by virtually every college and university in the country.
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This week Perspectives devotes the entire hour to a...
Bruce DuMont's last name is synonymous with electronic media, his uncle having developed the cathode ray tube and founded the DuMont Television Network, a post-World War II industry pioneer. In the last thirty years Bruce DuMont has begun the syndicated weekly radio series, Beyond the Beltway, opened the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago...
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This week Perspectives examines things going badly.
Kevin Oklobzija is the hockey writer and columnist of the Rochester, New York,Democrat Chronicle newspaper. He suggests why the American Hockey League Rochester Americans' health is as bad as the once-parent National Hockey League Buffalo Sabres' is fine.
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This week Perspectives addresses two challenges: one...
First, University of Rochester Professor of Religion Emil Homerin addresses the crisis in Egypt: what the protest means to the Middle East, the American economy, and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Homerin is an expert on Islam and Arabic Literature and has lived and worked in Egypt for a large part of the last thirty years.
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This week Perspectives devotes its entire hour to a...
Johnson will tell why he is running for his old job; what he thinks of the upcoming March 29 Special Election in Rochester; how Western New York compares to the region he first came to in 1972; and whether politicians anywhere are worthy of the electorate. Johnson is currently the Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Coordinator...
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This week Perspectives devotes its entire hour to a...
Johnson will tell why he is running for his old job; what he thinks of the upcoming March 29 Special Election in Rochester; how Western New York compares to the region he first came to in 1972; and whether politicians anywhere are worthy of the electorate.
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This week Perspectives examines a new and disturbing...
...ranking the culture and resources for reading in the Nation's largest 75 metropolitan areas with population over 225,000, including Buffalo, New York. The report asks not whether people can read, but if they do. The answer: less and less.
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This week Perspectives examines New York State's 56th...
This past week Cuomo gave his Inaugural speech and his State of the State address. First, John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International and often termed America's leading pollster, examines the attitudes of the Empire State electorate as Cuomo takes office.
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This week Perspectives celebrates Happy New Year by...
First, the show examines Western New York, with Ted O'Brien, former Monroe County Democratic Party chairman, now minority leader, the Monroe County Legislature. Topics include Rochester, N.Y.'s upcoming Special Election for Mayor, Buffalo's attempt to transform downtown, Upstate New York's economy, and Andrew Cuomo's January 1 inaugural as New York ...
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This week Perspectives examines democracy: how we elect...
First, Buffalo News political reporter and columnist Bob McCarthy recalls some of Buffalo's 62 Mayors, including Grover Cleveland, Jimmy Griffin, and today's Byron Brown. How have they differed, and been alike? Then, Western New York political activist and radio talk host Bill Nojay...
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This week, in nostalgia's greatest month, Perspectives...
More than any month, December means nostalgia: hanging the Christmas tree, buying presents, attending parties with friends, year after year. Steven Darnall hosts the radio series Those Were the Days and publishes the magazine Nostalgia Digest. He evokes the wireless's formative years and stars, from Graham McNamee and Jack Benny through Burns and ...
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This week Perspectives discusses the theme of help.
Dr. Amit Batabyal, Professor of Economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Upstate New York, explores a new survey by the Brookings Institute that etches the alarming growth of suburban poverty in America -- and how the public and private sectors can help. Then, Kenneth Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council...
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This week Perspectives replays Election Day 2010: a look...
In New York State, Democrats won every statewide office: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, and both United States Senate seats. Talk show host and Western New York political activist Bill Nojay examines why Democrats prevailed despite the Nation's Republican Party tide.
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This week Perspectives explores Election Day: five weeks...
National Democratic Party consultant Hank Schoenkopf examines the fraying, if not crumbling, of President Obama's 2008 coalition. Then New York conservative activist and talk host Bill Nojay details the crumbling influence of the Empire State's Republican establishment, as shown by Carl Paladino's stunning rout of Rick Lazio in the recent GOP gubernator
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This week Perspectives examines Election Day 2010,...
Bob McCarthy, political reporter and columnist for the Buffalo News, details various Western New York races and President Obama's influence on Democratic Party popularity. Fred Dicker, New York Post columnist and state editor, looks ahead to the Tuesday, September 14 Republican Party primary for New York Governor.
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In the week that America's combat mission ended in Iraq,...
Sean Wilenz is Professor of History at Princeton University, director of its program in American Studies, and author or editor of many books. He discusses America winning the unwinnable: the Revolutionary War. Edward Bonekemper is Professor of Military History at Muhlenberg College and a Civil War scholar.
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This week Perspectives examines people who grew up...
Hank Greenwald was raised in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Brighton, attended Syracuse University, and became a nationally known sportscaster for, among others, baseball's Yankees, Giants, and A's. He speaks from his home in San Francisco. Doug Gamble was born in Montreal, moved to Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario, and in 1980 relocated to Southern CA
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This week Perspectives recalls the legendary career of...
...born, Rochester, New York, July 4, 1911; died, recently, at 99; conductor, musician, producer, the man who revolutionized the recording industry, discovered Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, and Patti Page, and made Sing Along With Mitch a 1960s network TV institution. Bonnie Boyd is Professor of Flute at the Eastman School of Music, from which Miller
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This week Perspectives examines intriguing books for...
Mark Bauerline is Professor of English at Emory University and director of a National Endowment for the Arts report on reading, or lack thereof. He discusses his book, published by Penguin: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. Roxanne Orgill is the author of a book about a 1930s and '40s ...
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This week Perspectives sings a little traveling music:...
Mike O'Brian is YNN Television Rochester, New York's "Getaway Guy." He details his new book, The Getaway Guy: Road Trip Getaways with Mike O'Brian. 50 Fun-Filled Getaways in and around New York State from Jamestown's Lucy-Desi Museum via Buffalo's Naval and Military Park to Watkins Glen, Cooperstown, and Saratoga Springs.
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This week Perspectives presents something it hasn't in...
A week ago the show featured a segment on the Buffalo Bills, including its 1960s quarterback, Jack Kemp. Afterward numerous listeners contacted us to ask if we could reair a program originally broadcast upon Kemp's death in May 2009. The broadcast explores Kemp's two careers.
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This week Perspectives presents its annual summer look...
Scott Pitoniak is perhaps Rochester, New York's, most decorated sportswriter: author of 13 books, longtime former Gannett News Service columnist, and reporter covering the Buffalo Bills since 1985. He discusses his new book, Buffalo Bills Football Vault: The First 50 Seasons 1960-2009, a coffee-table type book which explores the Bills' good, bad, ugly..
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This week Perspectives salutes three movers and shakers,...
Nora Bredes heads the Susan B. Anthony Center of Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester. She details Anthony, who pioneered, among many other things, equal pay for equal work, eight-hour work day, and women's right to vote. Kathy Connor is the curator, George Eastman Collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
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This week Perspectives examines a timeless theme: What...
Historian Harry Turtledove, author of the acclaimed book about the Civil War, Fort Pillow, recalls what Abraham Lincoln faced as the 16th President prepared to issue the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves. Author and Theodore Roosevelt scholar Edward Renahan details TR's life based on right, wrong, and being "in the arena," especially his ...
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This week Perspectives celebrates an American Original:...
This year marks a trilogy of anniversaries: the 175th year of Twain's birth; 100th, death; and 125th, release of the classic Huckleberry Finn. In particular, the program examines his longstanding ties to Upstate New York, where Twain lived most of his final forty years and is buried.
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This Saturday, June 12, former President George H.W....
On his birthday, Perspectives recalls the man whose foreign policy President Obama says he admires. Roman Popaduick is former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, now Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, and author of the book, The Leadership of George Bush: An Insider's View of the 41st President. The show will devote....
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This week Perspectives examines digital's role in the...
Our guest for the entire hour is a man who lived through the former, and now studies and comments upon the latter: Mike Benard, 1993-2006 Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Vice President of the Eastman Kodak Company -- and now involved as a speaker and discussion leader with the American Press Institute and International Newsmedia Market
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This week Perspectives looks at Western New York, New...
What was it designed to do? Is Obama's presence a help, or hindrance, to Democrats in the region? Fred Dicker is the New York Post columnist and State Editor. He explores Andrew Cuomo's official candidacy for Governor, announced this week. What are the presumptive Democratic candidate's strengths and weaknesses? Can any Republican be remotely ...
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This week Perspectives explores the senses of hearing,...
Dr. James Willey is the esteemed composer and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music Emeritus at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He compares teaching and composing; if you compose with the heart and/or brain; and what musical forms have affected his career.
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This week Perspectives explores three sides of print...
Melissa Chesse, Associate Professor of the Magazine Department at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, details the state of the American magazine: today's special-interest niche v. yesterday's general-interest audience. Lee Capulla, Dean of the Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Bonaventure University, examines newspapers
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This week Perspectives details two great American...
William Leuchtenburg, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, is arguably the Nation's leading Roosevelt scholar. He examines FDR's nonpareil ability to make Presidential language personal and persuasive.
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As economic malaise continues to cloak New York State,...
David Schreve is an economic historian and former Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He recalls the Depression and how 1929-33 New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt responded. Fred Siegel is an historian, writer for publications including The Wall Street Journal, and author of numerous books including a biography of Rudolph Giuliani.
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This week Perspectives presents a grand slam, touchdown,...
Pete Weber is the former Voice of the National Hockey League Buffalo Sabres, now equally popular as TV broadcaster of the Nashville Predators. He etches the upcoming postseason playoffs, and whether the Sabres can win their first Stanley Cup.
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This week Perspectives devotes its entire hour to a...
Donald Miller, Professor of History at Lafayette University, etches the month that forged the war's close. Jay Winik, author of the best-selling book April 1865: The Month That Saved America and frequent contributor to television's History Channel, suggests how the month changed us, then and now. T.S. Eliot said that April..
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Recently Perspectives has devoted several shows to...
This week it devotes the entire hour to the way we are. Our guest is the author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream -- John Zogby, America's pre-eminent pollster and President and CEO of Zogby International, located in his home town of Utica, New York.
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This week Perspectives continues its look at...
Raised in Brooklyn, Shirley Chisholm became a New York City educator, New York State legislator, first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, then first black candidate for U.S. President in 1972. Her Congressional successor, Edolphus Towns, representing New York's Tenth District, recalls a true pioneer for her race and sex...
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In a still larger-than-life Empire State, this week's...
Mario Cuomo was New York's only three-term Democratic Governor, a man The Boston Globe called "America's most gifted philosopher-politician." Two guests -- Sandy Frucher, former aide and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the distinguished New York Post columnist and State Editor Fred Dicker...
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This week Perspectives explores celebrities from Upstate...
As a child, Irving Crain of Livonia, New York, near Rochester, got a toy billiards table. A love of pool made Crain a memorable adult. His life is profiled by Mike Shamos, curator, Billboard Achieve, a non-profit Pittsburgh organization, and Distinguished Career Professor, School of Computer Science, at Carnegie-Mellon University. Sober or playing drunk
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This week Perspectives addresses issues of concern to...
Recently, David Paterson formally announced his candidacy for a full term as Empire State Governor. New York Post columnist and state editor Fred Dicker examines Paterson's odds.
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This week Perspectives explores a timeless literary...
Les Pickel is the editor of numerous anthologies and Associate Publisher of Warner Books. He explains what anthology is, how fiction and nonfiction differ, and how the art form works.
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This week Perspectives examines issues that affect...
Stephen Cook is Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics, at Golisano Children's Hospital in Rochester, New York. He explores the burgeoning issue of childhood obesity: What causes it? How can we stem its growth?
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This week Perspectives explores The Generation Gap: how...
Dr. Sarah Atkinson is Medical Director of Upstate New York's Finger Lakes Clinical Research. She examines people of elementary through college age.
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This week Perspectives explores debate.
Buffalo News Washington Bureau Chief and columnist Jerry Zremski debates the effect of President Obama's recent State of the Union address. Will it U-turn his Presidency, easing Obama's winter of discontent? On the eve of the Indianapolis-New Orleans Super Bowl, award-winning columnist and author of 13 books Scott Pitoniak debates whether football is...
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This week Perspectives examines the innovation of faith,...
Faith: In 1988, HOK Sport architectural firm designed Buffalo's then-Pilot Field. Now the firm, renamed Populous, has built the new park of the Rochester Red Wings' parent club, the Minnesota Twins. Senior principal Earl Santee describes how. Hope: On January 28, Dr. Robert Atkinson, founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation...
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This week Perspectives previews 2010.
First, Buffalo News business reporter David Robinson analyzes the state of Western New York's economy. Where is it weak, and strong? How can small business, in particular, revive? Next, the program features Joseph Spector, reporter for Albany, New York's Gannett Newspapers, exploring what polling data calls the dysfunctional state of Empire State ...
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This week Perspectives explores three issues that...
E.J. McMahon, Executive Director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, discusses taxes, especially property taxes, and his Center's new report on how to cut $30 billion from the State deficit. Steve McLaughlin is meteorologist of the National Weather Service in Buffalo.
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This week Perspectives looks at careers: how they...
Peter King is a nationally-known CBS Radio News correspondent. He discusses covering events from NASA's Columbia accident to Hurricane Katrina to the Super Bowl and Michael Jackson's death. Joseph Rulison is managing director/market manager for Rochester, New York's J.P. Morgan private wealth management. He explores how to make and keep money...
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This week's Perspectives looks back at 2009.
Buffalo News columnist Bob McCarthy explores the biggest, best, and worst Western New York stories. New York Post columnist and state editor Fred Dicker examines New York State, including its capital...
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This week Perspectives examines character.
Martin Medhurst is a Baylor University scholar and editor of The Rhetoric and Religion book series. Exploring a Pew Forum poll on Religion in Public Life, he examines the extent to which America uses faith as a guide to life.
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This week Perspectives focuses upon turning the corner.
Recently, the Labor Department announced a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate from 10.2 to 10 percent. David Robinson, economics writer for the Buffalo News, explores whether the national economy has turned the corner. A new Siena Research Institute poll details the attitude of New York State residents toward the economy.
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If Virginia is the Mother of Presidents, New York is the...
Author and Vanity Fair writer Sally Bedell Smith discusses the grace and courage of Jacqueline Kennedy, who entered the White House at age 31...
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To celebrate Thanksgiving, Perspectives hails things we...
Matthew Silverman discusses resilience, embodied by the hero of every dog that is under: the 40th anniversary of the 1969 New York Mets' stunning world championship.
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If Virginia is the Mother of Presidents, New York State...
This week Perspectives begins a series on American First Ladies born in the Empire State. Dan Preston is editor of the James Monroe Papers at the Monroe Museum in Virginia. He recalls Elizabeth Monroe, arguably more popular in France than America.
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Barack Obama has said he admires the foreign policy of...
This week Perspectives uses a new insider's book to examine arguably America's last nonpartisan President. Roman Popadiuk was Bush's Deputy Assistant, Deputy Assistant for Foreign Affairs, and the first U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
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This week Perspectives examines trauma.
Dr. Lawrence Aber is Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy at New York University: also, chair, its Institute for Human Development and Social Change.
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This week Perspectives examines three famed generals who...
Kip Muir, historian at Virginia Military Institute, recalls "Blood and Guts," the theatric and controversial George S. Patton. Author and historian Michael Schallert recounts the flamboyant and eloquent Douglas MacArthur, who famously said "I shall return," and did.
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This week Perspectives explores What next?
Buffalo News columnist Bob McCarthy explores why and how Buffalo, New York, downtown development is singing a nautical theme, including a Bass Pro Shop. Western New York commentator and political activist Bill Nojay discusses why any development theme for neighboring Rochester has proved elusive.
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This week Perspectives examines behavior: acting...
First, famed historian Arthur Herman discusses his dual biography of two heroic men: Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, published by Random House.
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This week Perspectives examines character: what it is,...
Historian Harry Turtledove, author of numerous books, including Fort Pillow, recalls the challenge Abraham Lincoln faced as he prepared to free slaves in the Civil War.
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This week Perspectives explores corruption: its...
Richard Rosenbaum is former Chairman of Monroe County's and New York State's Republican Party, and author of the new book, No Room For Democracy: The Triumph Of Ego Over Common Sense.
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This week Perspectives examines the family: more...
Carroll Doherty, Associate Director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, examines whether senior citizens are turning against President Obama's health care proposal. Tony Silvia, Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, explores the issue of nepotism...
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This week Perspectives explores a variety of careers.
Peter King of CBS Radio News is among America's finest broadcast journalists. He details covering events from NASA and Space Shuttle flights to Hurricane Katrina. Kevin Dillon of Buffalo is New York State Supreme Court Justice.
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Historically, the Governor of New York State strides a...
This week Perspectives examines three Governors who changed the Empire State. Franklin D. Roosevelt led America's then-most populous state from 1929-33.
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The Bible tells of a prodigal son who leaves his family,...
This week's Perspectives etches three sons and daughters raised in the series' listening area who have left and may or may not return.
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This week Perspectives examines quality.
It begins with Ted O'Brien, former Democratic Party chairman of New York's Monroe County. Now a County legislator, O'Brien talks about today's quality of political life. Jim Ranney is News Director of WNED, Buffalo's National Public Radio affiliate.
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This week Perspectives explores New York State's role in...
Our guests are three historians, whose forte is America's War for Independence.
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Last year, Perspectives examined how to build a baseball...
Dr. Suzanne Sachnowitz is the author of "Til Death: A Story of Survival and Renewal." She explores coping with ultimate tragedy: the death of a spouse.
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This week "Perspectives" three cases of betrayal.
In 1957, two baseball teams left New York for California, breaking the hearts of millions of people in New York City and Upstate New York. The Huffington Post columnist Robert E. Murphy discusses his new book, "After Many A Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age In New York Baseball."
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This week "Perspectives" conducts its annual tour of...
Jim Mossgraber is Chief Operating Officer of the Genesee Country Village and Museum in Mumford, New York, between Buffalo and Rochester.
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As newspapers slash or eliminate book reviews, this...
Noted sports author Rob Rains examines "Tony LaRussa: Man On a Mission" -- perhaps baseball's best and most misunderstood manager. A new religious study portrays an America overwhelmingly Christian -- but liberal Protestantism in freefall.
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