Week of April 9 - April 13, 2012

Here's the rundown for this week's guests

Monday 4/9

Hr. 1

Meet Michael Watkins, nationally known architect and planner who’ll share his ideas with the Reshaping Rochester gathering later this month and joins us on the line today

Hr. 2

We’re visited by Peter Neufeld, co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project, who’ll address an RIT convocation on criminal justice and wrongful convictions, and Suzanne Schnittman of the Judicial Process Commission

Tuesday 4/10

Hr. 1

Elizabeth Lynam, chief budget analyst for the nonpartisan Citizens’ Budget Commission, joins us from Albany to evaluate how well Governor Cuomo and the Legislature did in crafting a spending plan for the state

Hr. 2

U of R Warner School of Education professor Ed Brockenbrough discusses the lessons young students here can draw from the tragedy of Trayvon Martin’s death in Florida

Wednesday 4/11

Hr. 1

We talk with Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard

Hr. 2

Rochester School Board finance committee chair Willa Powell discusses the draft school  budget and the choices educators have to make in continued times of fiscal constraint

Thursday 4/12

Hr. 1

Inside the history of the study of the mind—and what we’ve learned; a conversation with distinguished scholar Andrew Scull, who will lecture this evening at the University of Rochester

Hr. 2

We talk with veteran diplomat Molly Williamson, a career U.S. Foreign Service Officer now associated with the Washington-based Middle East Institute, about the Middle East, peace, and energy issues (recorded earlier in the day)

Friday 4/13-Education Friday

Hr. 1

Frank Cigelski talks with Kim Segal and Jamie Barkley of the Learning Disability Association

Hr. 2

Frank talks with Patricia Braus and Karen Davis of the Rochester Education Foundation

All programs originate live in our studios unless otherwise indicated. Schedules are subject to change in response to breaking news. Pre-recorded programming may be replaced with live content on short notice.