2008
BROADCAST SCHEDULE Tuesdays
at 8:00 p.m., repeats Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. & Sundays
at 4:30 p.m.
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- Susan
Combs - 6/24/08, 6/28/08 and 6/29/08
- Texas State
Comptroller
- Don
Carthel – 6/17/08, 6/21/08 and
6/22/08
- Football
Coach, WTAMU
- Salem
Abraham - 6/10/08, 6/14/08 and 6/15/08
- Commodities Trader
- Dr.
Steven Jones - 6/3/08, 6/7/08 and 6/8/08
- President
of Amarillo College
- Sandy
Fenberg - 5/27/08, 5/31/08 and 6/1/08
- Sandy Fenberg
knows Amarillo’s homeless well. She runs Another Chance House for
men with no where to go but up. And some of the people needing Sandy’s
help might surprise you – right now her residents include a CPA and
a former business owner.
- Claire
Gaudiani - 5/20/08, 5/24/08 and 5/25/08
- Former President
of Connecticut College and current Professor of Philanthropy at New
York University. Dr. Claire Gaudiani is also the author of “Generosity
Rules” and “The Greater Good.”
- Mike
Cox - 5/13/08, 5/17/08 and 5/18/08
- Mike Cox spent
15 years with the Texas Department of Public Safety serving as the
principal spokesperson during the Luby’s massacre in Killeen and
the fiery aftermath of the Branch Davidian standoff near Waco. Prior
to that he was an award winning newspaper reporter and is currently
a very prolific writer. He’ll discuss his 13th book, “The Texas Rangers:
Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900”.
- Eddie
Melin - 5/6/08, 5/10/08 and 5/11/08
- If it has anything
to do with the Amarillo Arts Community, Eddie Melin organized it,
built it or saved it from being destroyed. He was instrumental in
rescuing the Amarillo Symphony, developing the Amarillo Museum of
Art, locating the space for the Pioneer Ampitheater in Palo Duro
Canyon, building the downtown library – and even broadcast the first
weather report on Amarillo television.
- Scott
McCown - 4/22/08, 4/26/08 and
4/27/08
- Texas Monthly
magazine calls Dumas native, Scott McCown, the “voice of the voiceless”
and “the conscience of Texas politics.” McCown retired as a state
district judge in 2002 to become Executive Director of the Center
for Public Policy Priorities and formerly presided over all Texas
Public School Finance cases from 1990 to 2002 and thousands of child
abuse cases.
- Charles
Warford - 4/15/08, 4/19/08 and 4/20/08
- Longtime
Amarillo funeral director, Charles Warford, remembers living
through many social injustices because of his race. In the
1930’s he attended segregated Amarillo schools where, he
says, books were scarce and the only athletic equipment available
were hand-me-downs from all-white Amarillo High School. But
those are not the only experiences that define Warford, who
also served in the Navy during WWII, crossing the Atlantic
12 times.
- Rory
Schepisi - 4/8/08, 4/12/08 and 4/13/08
- How does one get
from Saddle River, New Jersey to Vega, Texas? By way of reality television
of course. At least that’s how Rory Schepisi became on of Vega’s
most popular citizens and the proud owner of the Panhandle community’s
newest restaurant, Boot Hill.
- Bishop
Leroy Matthiesen - 4/1/08, 4/5/08 and 4/6/08
- Former
Bishop of the Diocese of Amarillo, Reverend Bishop Leroy
Matthiesen is well known for his outspoken opposition during
the 1980’s against the work being done at the Pantex Plant.
Today the Bishop is retired and has a book – much of it coming
from his weekly columns that appeared through the years in
the West Texas Catholic called Wise and Otherwise.
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