WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We present interviews with Rick Bailey and Maria Elena Bisabarros, who will be squaring off in the August 11th Democratic primary for the Wisconsin State Assembly District 33. The order of the interview was determined by the flip of a coin. (We shared interviews with the two Republicans facing off in the Republican primary on yesterday's program.).

This is the interview with Maria Elena Bisabarros, one of the Democrats squaring off in the Aughust 11th Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 33. (We have an interview with the other candidate in a separate posting.).

This is the interview with Rick Bailey, one of the Democrats who will be facing off in the August 11th primary for the Wisconsin State Assembly District 33. (We have an interview with the other candidate in a separate posting.).

This is an interview with Rick Stacey, one of the Republicans in the upcoming August 11th primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 33. (We have an interview with the other Republican in a separate posting.)

This is the interview with Steve Wicklund, one of the Republicans in the upcoming August 11th primary for the Wisconsin State Assembly District 33. (We also have an interview with the other Republican in the race in a separate posting.)

We present interviews with Steve Wicklund and Rick Stacey, who are squaring off in the Republic primary for the August 11th Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 33. The order was determined by a flip of a coin. (We present the two Democrats in the Democratic primary on tomorrow's program.).

On July 30th, Barb Salvo died. She was a high-regarded science teacher at Washington Park High School in Racine for many years - and after retiring from Park, she worked with many of the science education majors at Carthage. During her years at Park, she was the faculty advisor for the school's science team, which was one of the finest in the state. This interview from spring of 1998 came shor...

Tom Vignieri, a Kenosha native and Carthage College alum, had an impressive and wide-ranging music career that included stints with the Handel-Haydn Society, the Tanglewood Institute, and public radio's "From the Top." He was also a prolific and highly-regarded composer. He died this past Thursday, July 30th. In his memory, we are replaying a Morning Show conversation from the fall o...

Today is the last day that Kevin and Julie Ervin are the co-owners of Frank's Diner, one of Kenosha's most beloved landmarks. (They have sold the diner to a longtime employee so they can retire.). In this interview from last year, Ervin outlines the 100-year history of the diner.

This is a brief interview with Bill Diekhoff, who was the choral director at Washington Park High School in Racine for many years. He is returning to Racine this weekend to sing a voice recital Saturday afternoon, 2:30, at Holy Communion Lutheran Church in Racine .... to celebrate his 90th birthday! The program includes arias by Donizetti and Bizet, songs by Sigmund Romberg and Rodger & Hammer...

We preview the 2026 Starving Artists Fair - coming up this Sunday, August 2nd, at the Dekoven Center - with Jayne Herring, coordinator of the fair, Sue Smith, current president of the Racine Art Guild, and past-president Jill Castillo. The fair this year will feature the work of 130 artists.

This is the interview we recorded with James Beller ahead of the upcoming Republican primary for Kenosha County Sheriff on August 11th. (We also have interviews with the other two candidates.).

This is the interview we recorded with Tony Gonzalez ahead of the upcoming Republican primary on August 11th for Kenosha County Sheriff. (We also have interviews with the other two candidates.).

This is the interview we recorded with current Kenosha County Sheriff David Zoerner ahead of the Republican primary on August 11th. (We also have interviews with his two challengers.)

Here are interviews with the three people facing off in the Republican Primary for Kenosha County Sheriff on Tuesday, August 11th: (the order of these interviews was determined by random draw)- David Zoerner, Tony Gonzalez, and James Beller. (Zoerner is the current sheriff. Gonzalez and Beller are challenging him in the Republican primary.). We are also posting each interview separately.

We speak with former Racine Poet Laureate Debra Hall about how she fell in love with poetry, the daily routine she follows that helps her write every single day, and her newly published chapbook "What the Current Cannot Swallow." This collection of poems stems from a difficult period in her life when her husband was seriously stricken while the two of them were flying to Italy for vacati...

From 2021- Writer Matthew Paul Turner talks about the experience of completing Rachel Held Evans's children's book "What is God Like?," which was left incomplete at her untimely death in 2019 at the age of 37.

From 2015- Kristy Woodson Harvey talks about her debut novel "Dear Carolina."

We talk with Colleen Walker, director of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that's being performed the next two weekends. at Badger High School by Christian Performing Arts.

From 2024- Jonathan Scott, author of "Into the Groove: The History of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl."

We talk about Regenerative Farming with Amy Greil, executive director of the Kenosha Community Foundation - Paul Maggio, owner/operator of Starry Nights Farm in Kenosha County and leader of the Kenosha Regenerative Producers Group - and Ken Stock, a family farmer in Jefferson County and a staff member for Glacierland Resource Conservation and Development, a non-profit that works with farmers who w...

Because so much of northern hemisphere is experiencing record-breaking heat waves this summer, we are replaying this interview with Eric Klinenberg, author of "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." The book examines the devastating heat wave in July 1995 when hundreds of people in Chicago perished from the heat. Klinenberg did a careful study of where in the city people we...

As a memorial to Frank Egerton - a beloved Professor Emeritus from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and devoted community activist who died on July 14th at the age of 90 - we are replaying a 2022 Morning Show conversation where he talks about his book "Gun Crazy America: A History and Critique of our Gun Culture."

Part One- Dan Werb, author of "Our Wild Familiars: How Animals are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World." The book examines the ways in which more and more wild animals are living within urban settings. Werb examines special instances of this- the raccoons of Toronto, the rats of New York City, the bats of Boston, and more. Part Two:- from 2009- Michael D'Orso, author o...

From 2004- Patrick J. Kiger, author of "Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions and Lore that Shaped Modern America."