Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

A preview of the upcoming Sustainability Summit at Carthage College with Carol Sabbar (Director of Library and Instructional Technology Services) and four Carthage students - Zach Gibson, Alyssa Rodway, Alexis Menendez and Grace Condit - who have helped to put the event together.   ALSO: a preview of this weekend's concert by the Belle City Brassworks with conductor Doug Johnson.  

For Women's History Month:  John Oller, author of "American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War 'Belle of the North' and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal."   The daughter of Samuel Chase (a member of President Lincoln's cabinet), she was for a time the most famous woman in America - and one of the wealthiest and most influential - before her life was engulfed in a ruinous sex scandal.  

Fifty years after passage of the groundbreaking Clean Water Act,  Eric Schaeffer (executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project) talks about his organization's study of the Clean Water Act and what still needs to be done to reach the legislation's lofty goals. 

Philosophy professor Andrew Fiala, author of "Tyranny from Plato to Trump:  Fools, Sycophants and Citizens."  

From 2005-  Jeffrey Tayler, author of "Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel." 

From 2009-  Renowned pastry chef and chocolatier Norman Love talks about his life in the kitchen and what it was like to be a guest on "Baking with Julia." 

Nan Calvert with Jennifer Phillips-Vanderberg, Science Director of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory. 

Clayton Trutor, author of "Loserville:  How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta - and How Atlantic Remade Professional Sports."  

James Schatzman,  founder-conductor/artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin,  talks about the group's 35-year history and the celebratory gala concert coming up this Saturday evening at Racine's First Presbyterian Church.  

Russ Johnson, director of the jazz studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside,  talks about the school's Jazz Week,  which features an array of superb guest artists performing concerts each night this week.  

We talk about the Racine Theatre Guild's production of "Clue: Onstage" with Doug Instenes, RTG's managing and artistic director, who is directing this production .... and Dan Martino, who plays the butler Wadsworth in the production.  The show opens this Friday and runs through the first weekend in April. 

From 2003 -  Stephen Coonts talks about his book "Victory" which is comprised of short novels about World War Two by ten award-winning authors (including one by Coonts himself.) 

From 2005-  Brian Fugere, author of "Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide."   The subtitle refers to the importance of eliminating "bull" from the way business people communicate amongst themselves and to the public.  

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht is joined by Lindsey Kosman, Gateway Student Life Coordinator ... Nicole Oberlin, District and Elk Horn Campus Ambassador .... and Taylor DeVincentis, Kenosha Campus Ambassador. 

We speak with Seth Weidmann, Carthage's Assistant Athletic Director and Head Men's Swimming and Diving Coach .... and with senior Adam Moskus, one of Carthage's finest swimmers .... shortly after Carthage won its fifth consecutive CCIW (Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) Championship. 

Susan Quinn talks about her book "Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady."  The book examines the extraordinary relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok, a relationship the lasted more than thirty years. 

Thoughts about Diabetes from two experts at Harvard Medical School who have co-written a book titled "Conquer Your Diabetes" - Dr. Morton Abrahamson and Dr. Sanjiv Chopra. 

From the archives (2010) -  Ingrid Betancourt, author of "Even Silence has an End:  My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle."  While running for the presidency of Colombia, Betancourt was kidnapped by one of Colombia's most brutal anti-government terrorist organizations,  and held prisoner for six years.   This memoir is her harrowing account of her ordeal.  

From 2009-  Jeff MacGregor, author of "Sunday Money: A Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR" 

Professor Amir Hussain, renowned expert on Islam - in town for the 3rd Kenosha Interfaith Scholar-In-Residence program.   He is chair and professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and author of MUSLIMS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA.  Also with us is Fatih Haprci, chair of the religion department at Carthage College.