WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We catch up with Jack Rose, alderman of the 15th district in Kenosha, and board president for the Kenosha County of NAMI - the National Alliance on Mental Illness.   

We preview this week's "Beauty in Expression" Visual and Performing Arts Symposium at Carthage College.  Joining us is Dr. Corinne Ness, Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities,  and Dr. Jojin van Winkle, Assistant Professor of Art.  One aspect of the symposium is an exhibit of Soviet-era artworks.  There is also a public screening of a renowned documentary film from early...

This is the complete interview I recorded back in the spring of 2010 with Frank and Janet Germinaro, talking about the 40th anniversary of his kidney transplant.  (Most of this interview was part of the broadcast of today's Morning Show.  Today's Morning Show - which can be heard in a separate file - includes a conversation with Kenosha Pops conductor Craig Gall- and several excerpts fea...

Today's program is a memorial tribute to Frank Germinaro, a beloved educator and musician here in Southeast Wisconsin who passed away this past Thursday at the age of 74.   We begin with Kenosha Pops conductor Craig Gall talking about his friend and mentor.  We then replay most of a memorable Morning Show conversation from 2010 with Frank and his wife Janet- talking about his kidney...

From 2005-  Dr. Michael A . Babcock, author of "The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun." 

From 2010-  Jeanne Fitzpatrick and Eileen Fitzpatrick, co-authors of "A Better Way of Dying: How to make the best choices at the end of life."  

Part One: The Mayo Clinic's Dr. Holly Geyer discusses her book "Ending the Crisis," which chronicles the emergence of the opioid epidemic (the leading cause of deaths among American adults between the ages of 18 and 45) - and shares some thoughts on how we can best reverse these alarming trends.  Part Two:  Best-selling author Anthony Swofford ("Jarhead") talks about his book "Hotels, Ho...

We observe Wisconsin Salt Awareness Week with our good friend Nan Calvert along with Laura Buska, who is the manager of the Respect Our Waters program for the Root Pike Watershed Initiative Network.  Next week is Wisconsin Salt Awareness Week, in which attention is drawn to the danger of salt to our fresh water supply.

From 2015-  Richard Goldstein, author of "Another Little Piece of my Heart:  My Life of Rock and Revolution in the 60's."  Goldstein was one of the first music critics to write seriously and perceptively about the rock music of his generation.  His book is also a vivid memoir of much of what he experienced on a personal level during those years.  

Part 1- John Winn Miller, author of "The Hunt for the Peggy C: A World War II Maritime Thriller."  Part 2 - (from 2002) -  Philip Gerard, author of "Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception." 

For Martin Luther King Day -  from the archives (2014) -   Todd S. Purdum, author of "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964."  

From 2002 -   H. Avery Chenoweth, author of "Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Combat Art from the Revolution through the 20th Century."  

From 2005 -  Doris Christopher, the founder of Pampered Chef, talks about her book "The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies" 

Bob Glauber, author of "Guts and Genius: The Story of Three Unlikely Coaches who came to Dominate the NFL in the 1980s.)  The coaches in question:  Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, and Joe Gibbs.  

Stacy Riley, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment at Gateway Technical College, talks about a new initiative at GTC to identify and reach out to so-called Stop-Out Students ....  past students who for whatever reason did not finish whatever degree they were pursuing.  We also talk about all that falls under the auspices of Student Services.  

from the archives-  Lea Burnam and Jeremy Bernard, who served as Social Secretary for the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, respectively, talk about their book "Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life."  

We talk with photographer and activist Heidi Wagner about her Passions Project.   It began ten years ago with her photographing senior citizens engaging with their passions.  The current iteration of the project focuses on people from the LBGTQ+ community in Racine.   The project is about to go on display in the library at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.   ...

Part One:  Holly Stanfield talks about Kenosha Unified's most recent musical theater production:  "Trevor: The Musical."  The title character is a high school student struggling to fit in and to understand who he is and his own sexuality.  Part Two:   from the archives,  Tim Federle talks about "Better Nate than Ever," a book intended for young readers that tells...

Katie Anderson Brower discusses her new book 'Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon." 

From 2007 - Faith Heller Willinger, author of "Adventures of an Italian Food Lover: with recipes from 254 of my Very Best Friends."  

From 2014: Lawrence Silver, the attorney for Samantha Geimer, author of "The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski."  

We finish out this week of repeats of notable 2022 author interviews with these three:  1)  Cody Keenan, head speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, talking about his new book "Grace."  2) Steve Binder, producer of the historic Elvis Presley comeback TV special in 1968 (he has written a new book that takes us behind the scenes) and 3) Andy Saunders, talking about "Apollo Re...

We have been rebroadcasting noteworthy author interviews that were recorded and initially broadcast in 2022.   In this interview,  Marshall Jon Fisher discusses his most recent book "17 & 0," which chronicles the perfect season of the Miami Dolphins 50 years after the fact.  It remains the only time in NFL history that a team finished its season with nothing but victories u...

This week, we are sharing noteworthy author interviews that initially aired in 2022.  Today, Susan Hartman discusses her book "City of Refugees:  The Story of Three Newcomers who Breathed Life into a Dying American City."   The city in question- Utica, New York.  The author follows three refugees - from Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq respectively - who each make a powerful impa...

This week, we are sharing noteworthy author interviews from 2022 Morning Show programs.  Today:  Peter J. Boni, author of "Uprooted- Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination."  Boni learned right before his 50th birthday that his birth was the result of artificial insemination which his parents had pursued in the mid 1940s.  His book...