Perspectives with Curt Smith

This week, with political season already much in season, Perspectives begins a series of one-hour perspectives on local major-party candidates.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

The series begins with the former chairman of the Monroe County Democratic Party, current Minority Leader of the Monroe County Legislature, and recently announced Democratic Party candidate for the fifty-fifth District New York State Senate seat. T

This week Perspectives explores an extended but relatively recent member of the American family: the personal computer.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

John Crowley is the founder and president of the popular Rochester, New York-based company, Biznetix, specializing in the web site. He explores that and other aspects of the personal computer: the Internet, Googling, Facebook, and ...

This week Perspectives spends its entire hour with a man whose career has involved writing, teaching, and informing -- enriching the written and spoken word.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Jim Memmott grew up in Upstate New York, taught American Literature at St. Lawrence University, joined the Rochester Times-Union and then Democrat & Chronicle newspapers, and also teaches Journalism today at the University of Rochester. ..

This week Perspectives explores early innings.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Kara Streeter is the Rochester, New York, Hearing and Speech Center's school psychologist. She discusses the early stages of a child's life: the need for parents to talk and read to young children; the importance of culture, family, and scholarship; and the ability of boys and girls under five to six years of age to more readily assimilate information

This week Perspectives hails pioneers. Kenneth Adelman is among America's most celebrated diplomats.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Former Untied States Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and key advisor to President Reagan in three superpower summits with Soviet General Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, 1986, and 1987. On Wednesday, May 2, Adelman will discuss ales and Times of Ronald Reagan....

This week Perspectives hails pioneers.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Kenneth Adelman is among America's most celebrated diplomats: former Untied States Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and key advisor to President Reagan in three superpower summits with Soviet General Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev...

This week Perspectives examines golf, in one of the great golf regions of the country.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Fred Beltz, official historian of Oak Hill Country Club in the Rochester suburb of Pittsford, describes the course's great past and the PGA tournament, one of golf's four yearly majors, to be played there next year...

This week Perspectives spends its entire hour with Jim Memmott, whose career has involved writing, teaching, and informing, enriching the written and spoken word.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

This week, Perspectives devotes its entire hour to food. Mark Scott is the Executive Director of Campus Auxiliary Services at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT

He details the changing food tastes of undergraduate college students -- in that sense, outlining the new Fusion Market on the SUNY at Geneseo campus.

This week Perspectives examines different sides of the American Presidency.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Usually, students of a long-ago Presidency analyze it by using observations of people who were not alive at the time. Daniel Gorman, age twenty, is a sophomore at a Western New York university. He wrote a term paper, which led to a major role at a national conference, by collecting observations of people who had been alive when Franklin Roosevelt was ..

This week Perspectives devotes its entire hour to a man who to many is an extended member of the Western New York family - Don Stevens

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Don Stevens, since 1986 the play-by-play Voice of the American Hockey League Rochester Americans. Born in the Canadian province of Alberta, Stevens will discuss how he entered broadcasting, memories of the Americans including thousands awaiting their early-morning arrival in Rochester to celebrate a 1987 Calder Cup title, and the team's once and again..

This week Perspectives explores higher education.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Jim Milroy is Vice President for Administration and Finance, the State University of New York at Geneseo, responsible for the college's financial operations. Dr. Milroy details the SUNY system's assets and challenges. Robin Mamlet is co-author of a new book published by Random House, College Admission From Application to Acceptance: Step by Step.

In the musical The Music Man, actor Robert Preston as Professor Harold Hill says, But you gotta know the territory!

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Bob Smith. This week Perspectives explores the listening territory of Western New York. The show's guest for the entire hour is a man who has broadcast in both Buffalo and Rochester since the 1970s.

This week Perspectives presents an astounding story of the triumph of hope over indescribable poverty.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

As age four, Douglas MacKinnon almost froze to death in a car from a blizzard while his parents got drunk in a nearby bar. At nine, he was trying to sleep on a filthy floor mattress when his mother shot a full clip of bullets into the bedroom. By 15, he was rolling pennies to buy food and medicine for his ailing sister.

This week Perspectives examines noise.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

One guest, Thomas Gibbons, President of the Rochester, New York, Hearing and Speech Center, discusses noise's volume -- its effect, ubiquity, and damage. He compares workplace and recreational noise, noting how each can lessen hearing, and details the Center's new initiative, "Too Loud?"

This week Perspectives answers the question, Are you ready for some football?

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Reviewing the most recent Super Bowl, and the National Football League's appeal across the land. Pete Fierle, born in Bufffalo, heads digital media and communications at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, birthplace of the NFL. He explores what the Hall of Fame is, does, and means to visitors. Scott Pitoniak is the author of 15 books...

This week Perspectives examines competition.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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, ...

This week Perspectives examines something Western New York has surprisingly seen little of in the winter of 2011-12: Ice.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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.

This week Perspectives focuses on the theme of family.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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, ...

This week Perspectives discusses major news of the week.

podcasts@wxxi.org (WXXI Public Broadcasting) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

First, John Wawrow, Associated Press sports correspondent, explores current issues of interest to upstate New York: football's Buffalo Bills' final 6-10 record