February 4, 2012
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, and what will determine the next President. Richard A. Johnson is long-time curator of The Sports Museum in Boston and author of twenty books, including his new critically-acclaimed Field of Our Fathers: An Illustrated History of Fenway Park, 1912-2012. He will discuss Fenway Park's centennial, the ballpark's and its Boston Red Sox's national popularity, and whether Fenway has now become American sport's most iconic site. This week, competition on Perspectives
January 28, 2012
This week Perspectives examines the professional well-balanced life, using two authors as example. 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 "a staggering piece of scholarship." Dickson examines how language links America. Michael Bohn is the author of numerous books on subjects from golf to terrorism, a career Naval intelligence officer, aide to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and former director of the White House Situation Room. Bohn will discuss his book, "Nerve Center: Inside the Situation Room," and to what extent TV, film, and print have accurately portrayed one of the White House's most famous locales. This week: the professional well-balanced life, on Perspectives.
January 21, 2012
This week Perspectives examines something Western New York has surprisingly seen little of in the winter of 2011-12: Ice.
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. He reviews Western New York's recent ice-storm history, including Buffalo's Blizzard of 1977, its "Six-Pack Blizzard" of 1985, and Rochester's 1991 devastating ice storm and a similar if smaller storm in 2003. Vasilli Petrenko is assistant professor of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rochester. He discusses how drilling through ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica can help the past portend the future of climate change and global warming. This week, Ice on Perspectives.
January 14, 2012
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, and may portend. Then financial analyst George Conboy, President of Brighton, New York's, Brighton Securities, examines a once-extended member of virtually every Upstate family: the Eastman Kodak Company, a colossus now perhaps near bankruptcy. Conboy details Kodak's extraordinary rise, fall, and potential future -- from the slogan "You push the button. We'll do the rest" to the world-wide known "Kodak Moment" to the debate of traditional film v. digital to the challenge of preserving an American institution. This week, family, on Perspectives.
January 6, 2012
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; the team's revamped radio network, featuring new stations in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, among other cities; and hockey's Buffalo Sabres, blacked out on cable television due to a dispute between the Madison Square Garden network and Time-Warner Cable TV. Then, Ted O'Brien, former Monroe County Democratic Party Chairman, now County Legislature minority leader, examines this week's Republican Party Iowa caucus and GOP front-runner Mitt Romney. O'Brien also analyzes the case of former Monroe County District Attorney Mike Green, his name recently not resubmitted by President Obama to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court
of the Western District of New York. This week, contemporary news on Perspectives.
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