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Roger J. Wendell
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KGNU
Boulder/Denver Community Radio

Although KGNU has its own web page, I am proud to feature them here as well. I became associated with the station as a music programmer in 1995. Since then I've been fortunate to conduct not only a great many music programs, but live interviews for Friday morning Connections, Metro, the Thursday Evening Call-in Show, Hempishperes, Live from Penny Lane, How on Earth science show, and various news and public affairs programs. The staff, volunteers, and guests at KGNU have been instrumental in bringing a lot of diverse music and information to the public airwaves - the station is an important part of our community and I'm honored to be associated with it!

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88.5	FM	Boulder	Listener Call-in line:	303-442-4242
1390	AM	Denver	Outside Calling Area:	800-737-3030
93.7	FM	Ward, Colorado	Studio Line:	303-449-4885
			Comment Line:	303-447-9911

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Open House
KGNU celebrated the opening of its
Denver Studio, located at 700 Kalamath
Street, on August 29, 2006:

Mary Romano	Davide Andrea and me!	Dragon Bus	Joanne Cole & Sam Fuqua	Sam Fuqua with Daniel & Joanne
Station Manager Marty Durlin	Yukari Murasaki	Sam Fuqua	Mary Romano & Janaki Lefis	Daniel Costello & Joanne Cole

Not Milk!
As Joanne Cole, KGNU's Community Relations Director said, "Who would have thought MILK??!!" Yep, that hour interview with Robert Cohen, author of Not Milk, brought out a lot of passion! Either way, I learned a lot and want to thank Eva for taking these pix and handling the wild telephones that day! January 27, 2006:

Dennis Kucinich

Some of my guests have been:

11/14/08 Gary Swain - Dispatches While Waiting for a Heart
11/13/08 Renna Shesso, author of Math for Mystics (From the Fibonacci Sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry)
11/13/08 Dave Isay, author of Listening is an Act of Love (A celebration of American Life From The Storycorps Project) (recorded on 10/28/08)
10/16/08 Tim and Cindie Travis, authors of Down the Road in South America (A Bicycle Tour through Poverty, Paradise,
10/16/08 and the Places in Between)
10/03/08 Jacqueline Cabasso, co-author Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? (U.S. Weapons of Terror,
10/03/08 the Global Proliferation Crisis and Paths to Peace) and Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation
09/29/08 Edward C. Hartman, author of The Population Fix (Breaking AMerica's Addiction to Population Growth)
09/11/08 Vincent Bugliosi, author of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
08/21/08 Historian John Steinle - comparing the 1908 and 2008 Denver Democratic National Conventions
08/15/08 Brian Katulis, co-author of The Prosperity Agenda
06/19/08 Robert Scheer, author of The Pornography of Power
05/16/08 Paul Sean Fitzgerald, author of Cell Phone Friend or Enemy
05/15/08 Carol Barrow and Betty Lynn Ferguson of Women in Black
05/15/08 Danan Henry Roshi of the Zen Center of Denver
04/11/08 Dr. Karambu Ringera, founder of International Peace Initiatives, on Kenya: Combating Disease, Conflict and Poverty
04/08/08 Hemispheres: Pakistanis Under Musharraf and the Bush Doctrine
04/08/08 Wendy Chamberlin - veteran U.S. Foreign Service officer and former Ambassador to Laos and Pakistan
04/08/08 Jospeh Cirincione - president of the Ploughshares Fund
04/08/08 S. Azmat Hassan - served as Pakistan's ambassador to Malaysia, Syria, and, most recently to Morocco
03/28/08 Mark Winne on hus book, Closing the Food Gap Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
03/13/08 Majka Burhardt on her book, Vertical Ethiopia Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa
02/29/08 Dmitry Orlov on his book, Reinventing Collapse: Soviet example and American prospects
01/17/08 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Marade and Holiday Celebration:
01/17/08 Vern L. Howard, statewide events chairman for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Colorado Commission
01/17/08 Larry Hale, alternative Marade organizer
01/17/08 Isolde Hathaway, Boulder's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration organizer
01/04/08 Harvey Wasserman on Nuclear Power and Election Fraud

12/07/07 Death Penalty/Capital Punishment issues:
12/07/07 Doug Wilson, the Colorado State Public Defender
12/07/07 State Representative Paul Weisman, District 12
12/07/07 Robert Grant, former District Attorney for Adams and Broomfield counties
08/24/07 Peggy Utesch, member of the Western Colorado Congress - on natural gas drilling in Colorado
08/24/07 Matt Baker, Executive Director of Environment Colorado - working towards renewable energy and wildland conservation
07/27/07 Nikki Kayser (News and Public Affairs) joined me for a fun and informative hour political talk and open lines!
06/29/07 Parents of fallen soldiers in Iraq, Karen Meredith (mother of 1st Lt. Kenneth Michael Ballard )
06/29/07 and Margaret Palmatier (mother of Spc. Jacob C. Palmatier) - Gold Star Families speak Out (www.GSFSO.org)
05/11/07 Tamdin Wangdu, founder of The Tibetan Village Project
05/11/07 Sue Kranzdor, author of Hero Dragon, A Workbook for Parents
05/11/07 Tamdin Wangdu, founder of The Tibetan Village Project
05/04/07 James Howard Kuntsler, author of The Long Emergency Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change,
05/04/07 and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
01/05/07 Joan McWilliams, author of The PeaceFinder (Riley McFee's Quest for World Peace)

13 Year old Amber tried her hand at some KGNU broadcasting!

12/06/06 Stacy Mitchell, author of Big Box Swindle (The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses)
11/10/06 Eric Sondermann (Sondermann/E-Squared Partners) and Clay Evans (Senior editor of the Boulder Daily Camera)
11/10/06 on post election review and analysis
10/31/06 Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope on politics and the environment during the '06 midterm elections
09/08/06 First time independent filmmaker Ward Powers on "One, the Movie"
07/28/06 Dr. Ulf Bossel, of the European Fuel Cell Forum, on the Myth of a Hydrogen Future
04/28/06 NW 470 Beltway discussion: City of Arvada Councilmember Lorraine Anderson, CINQ president Rob Medina,
04/28/06 CDOT Transportation Commissioner Joe Jehn, and Edie Bryan, member of CDOT's Cooridor Consensus Committee
03/15/06 Greg Mortenson on his book, Three Cups of Tea (One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time),
03/15/06 and his work at the Central Aisia Institute
02/28/06 Michael Robinson, of the Center for Biological Diversity, on his book, Predatory Bureaucracy
02/28/06 (The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West)
02/28/06 Carlo Spano and Jim Moore of Rooney Valley Org on their fight to preserve Lakewood openspace
02/17/06 Josh Osher, Justine and Roman Sanchez of the Buffalo Field Campaign - on Yellowstone's Buffalo slaughter...
01/27/06 Robert Cohen, author of Milk - The Deadly Poison

11/14/05 Arlene Blum and her book, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
10/19/05 Dr. Penelope Canan and the Global Carbon Project on climate change
10/04/05 Dr. KC Huang - Aspen Physics Center, glowing bacteria and Hawaiian squid
09/23/05 U.S. Department of Peace:
09/23/05 Zanaib Salbi - Women for Women International
09/23/05 Marianne Williamson - The Peace Alliance Foundation
09/23/05 George Newell - Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
09/21/05 David Roberts about his book, On the Ridge between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined
08/12/05 Photojournalists Molly Bingham and Steve Connors on the Iraq insurgency
07/19/05 Iron Feather on the closing of Boulder's Penny Lane coffee shop
07/01/05 Jorge Andromidas of the Colorado Grizzly Project and Wendy Keefover-Ring from Sinapu
05/27/05 Captain Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
03/11/05 Derrick Jensen on his upcoming book Endgame: The Collapse of Civilization and the Rebirth of Community
01/21/05 Acupuncture:
01/21/05 Drew Henderson, L.Ac. - Acupuncture Association of Colorado
01/21/05 Valerie Hobbs, L. Ac. - Southwest Acupuncture College
01/13/05 - Julie Beckwith, Group Services Director and Volunteer Coordinator for the Colorado Mountain Club

Listener endorsed!

12/24/04 Karen Kraut, State Taxation Project Director United for a Fair Economy on poverty and the concentration of wealth
12/23/04 Greg Harms, Executive Director Boulder Shelter for the Homeless
11/19/04 Professor Stephen Zunes, author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism
10/08/04 Referendum 4A (FasTracks): - Denver Area's 12 year light-rail transportation plan
10/08/04 Randy O'Toole, Director of the Independence Institute's Center for the American Dream
10/08/04 Debra Baskett, Executive Director of U.S. 36 Transportation Mobility Organization
09/29/04 Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman of Public Campaign on their book,
09/29/04 Is that a Politician in Your Pocket? (Washington on $2 Million a Day)
08/20/04 Dr. Alan Kuper, PhD, President CUSP (Comprehensive US Sustainable Population),
08/20/04 Fred Elbel, Director CAIR (Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform),
08/20/04 Laurie Hendron, board member for Boulder's "El Centro Armistad" immigration rights center
08/13/04 Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil (On the Edge of a Perilous New World)
06/25/04 Tim and Cindie Travis 7 year bicycle tour around the world!
05/07/04 Kenny Ausubel, editor of Ecological Medicine (Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves) and founder of the Bioneers
04/09/04 Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich
03/10/04 Wildlands Restoration Volunteers - Ed Self, Larau Backus, and Rene Brodeur

12/19/03 Maria Gilardin, producer of TUC Radio - Time of Useful Consciousncess
11/14/03 Becca Emme, Development Director for the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
10/31/03 Thomas Halicki, Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Elections Division Manager
08/22/03 Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie
02/26/03 John Firor and Judith E. Jacobsen, authors of The Crowded Greenhouse

11/15/02 Bart Miller, Attornery for the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies
11/15/02 Steve Glazer, Water Director for HCCA, High Country Citizens' Alliance
07/19/02 Bob Tiernan, Director of the Colorado Chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
05/17/02 Becca Emme, Development Director for the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
01/18/02 Erik Weihenmayer, author of Touch the Top of the World

12/07/01 Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine
12/07/01 Husni Sayed, AFTAP (Americans for the Truth about Palestine)
09/21/01 Dr. Franz Metcalf and BJ Gallagher Hateley on their book, What Would Buddha Do?
07/27/01 Dr. Bill Warnock, Boulder-Lhasa Sister Cities Project
07/27/01 Tamdin Wangdu, Tibetan human rights activist
04/13/01 Dr. George E. Siedel, Colorado State University Distinguished Professor, on cloning and bio-engineering
02/23/01 Steve Andrews - Solar Spectra, on our energy future
02/23/01 Randy Udall - C.O.R.E. on our energy future

Me and KGNU's satellite dish antenna in 1995 at the old Folsom Street studios...

12/22/00 Mary Romano - Outreach Coordinator, EarthLinks, on voluntary simplicity (Sierra Club Article)
12/22/00 Dr. Cecile Andrews, author of Simplicity Circles (Sierra Club Article)
09/15/00 Jan Lundberg of the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium, on energy and transportation
08/25/00 Les U. Knight - Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
05/12/00 Peter Kostmayer (courtesy Todd Daniel) - Director, Zero Population Growth
03/31/00 Mayor Paul Tauer - Aurora, Colorado
02/04/00 Roz McClellan - Founder, Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative
02/04/00 Harold Ogden - Member, Mile High Jeep Club

12/17/99 Dr. Suzanne Wuerthele - Genetic Engineering
07/30/99 Jan Hamilton - Executive Director, Wilderness Ranch
01/22/99 Mark Warren Reinhardt, author of The Perfectly Contented Meat Eater's Guide to Vegetarianism

07/31/98 Steve Wolper - Board of directors, Idaho Conservation League, on climbing and fixed anchors
07/31/98 Sally Moser - Executive Director, The Access Fund, on climbing and fixed anchors
06/05/98 Nichole Rosemarino - Rocky Mountain Animal Defense and The Biodiversity Legal

06/05/98

05/07/98 Mike Roselle - Cofounder Earth First!
03/06/98 Dr. Estevan Flores - Director, Latino/a Policy Institute CU Denver
03/06/98 Roy Beck - Immigration
01/22/98 Dr. Albert A. Bartlett - Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado, on population

12/26/97 John Trochmann - Militia of Montana
08/29/97 Ron Forthofer - Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
02/28/97 Reeves Brown- Colorado Cattlemans' Association
02/28/97 J. Manos - Great Plains Restoration Council

10/02/96 Mike Lewinski - Earth First!
06/24/96 Tim Haugen - Wild Ranch and low impact living

Kelly visited me at KGNU's new digs in 2005...

Connections:

On February 4th, 2005, I had the pleasure of speaking with Joel Edelstein about the beginnings of KGNU's Friday morning Connections program. Joel founded the program, as the show's only producer, when the US decided to invade Iraq during the first Gulf war. January 18, 1991 was the program's first airing. It was called War Talk.
War Talk offered a review of developments in the war that week and provided a forum for discussion. In that time of war fever, it was a place where members of the community who opposed the war could gain support from the knowledge that they were not alone. As a community forum in a time of war, Joel decided there would be no guests other than callers. As this was another difficult period in the history of American foreign policy, the telephone lines remained full throughout every broadcast! After the hostilities had ceased, at the end of March, the program's name was changed to Peace Talk.
After one year, Joel invited other producers to join him to create a new show. Connections first aired on February 21, 1992. Its mission: "Connecting People, Issues, and Ideas." Over the years there's been a small but stable "collective" of volunteers who produce the program each Friday morning. Generally we also rotate telephone duties between ourselves but have also been lucky to have regular assistance from folks like Eva Mesmer and others who have "pitched-in" when needed.
Currently, our collective consists of Joel Edelstein, Duncan Campbell, Tonja Loendorf, Kathy Partridge, Bob Gailer, Liz Lane and me. Sadly, early volunteer Paul Klite passed away in June, 2000 and is fondly remembered by our entire KGNU family. Connections has been around a long time and remains a vital and important feature on KGNU - I hope you'll tune in and join us this Friday morning!