Radio
Free Kingston Hosts
Art Richter
Gary Bischoff...Gary served four nonconsecutive terms as an Ulster County Legislator, including one year as Minority Leader.
He also served as a member of the Saugerties Town Board from 1996 through 1999.
Gary runs a small business, Electronic Control Concepts, in Saugerties.
He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at SUNY New Paltz where he teaches and mentors young people in Electronic Engineering.
Gary serves as a volunteer with the Saxton Fire Department and is much respected throughout Saugerties for his leadership and his involvement in numerous community projects and organizations such as the Kiwanis Club and the Winston Farm Alliance.
Gary has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Gary was recently reelected to the Ulster County Legislature, where he chairs the Laws and Rules Committee and the Charter Transistion Team.
Gary also serves on the Economic Development Committee and the Environmental Committee.
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van Roestenberg
Warren Lawrence
WKNY Station Manager
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Programming and issues will cover
the social and political spectrum and will advocate for open
and accountable governance, and core values that support fairness
in compensation, public good and taxpayers concerns. Issues
and opinions that are expressed are not scripted by any political
party or individuals. Listener opinions and views are encouraged.
Various guest hosts will also participate occasionally to encourage
diversified viewpoints.
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Regulations and Why is Media Ownership Important?
The FCC is once again taking up the issue of media ownership
rules and intends, as it tried unsuccessfully in 2003, to ignore
its responsibility to the public. If the FCC has its way it
will hand over our airwaves to an ever shrinking group of media
moguls, who will be the sole determiners (along with their partner
in crime, otherwise known as "The Decider") of all
that the American people get to see and hear and read everything
that passes for information in the United States.
Northeast Citizens For Responsible Media
845-876-7535
www.re-media.org
Links:
Amy Goodman, Democracy for America - www.democracynow.org
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Free Kingston...
Program sponsors and underwriters are sought that need not necessarily
endorse program views expressed, but are interested in encouraging
public awareness and participation in the political process.
Call Art Richter at 845 338-9009 for details and information. |
Nov. 11... Jesica Wisneski of
Citizen Action and Joan Walker-Wasylyk a local
activist discussing Clean Money Clean Elections |
From left to right Carnright, Gary, Sennett.
September 9
Ulster County District Attorney candidates D. Holley
Carnright and Jonathan Sennett on
the radio show on September 9. Mr. Carnright is the Republican
candidate and Mr. Sennett, a Democrat is also endorsed by the
Working Families Party |
Paul VanBlarkum and Art
Richter
Aug. 26 - Paul VanBlarkum, Ulster County Sheriff. The Sheriff
of Ulster County is an elected official and the chief law enforcement
officer of the County and is the county's conservator of the
peace in accordance with County Law. The Sheriff is responsible
for three divisions, Criminal, Civil and Corrections which includes
the new Law Enforcement Center |
Dave Donaldson, Chair
of Ulster County Legislature - 7/22/07 |
Scott Ian Barry July
8th Wolf Empire
An Intimate Portrait of a Species
From award-winning photographer Scott Ian Barry comes Wolf Empire--the
most comprehensive and stunning visual record of wolves ever
published in black-and-white photography
ORDER
HIS BOOK |
Legislator Susan Zimet and
Cindy Bell of the League of Women Voters July
1. |
April 1 Sam Magarelli
and Susan Murphy
of Health Care STAT discussed the Kingston, Benedictine merger
and the impact on our community as well as the Berger Commission
report. |
| September 16 Alan Lomita,
Chair of Ways & Means Committee in UC Legislature |
September 2,
Jen Fuentes, a coordinator for Hudson Valley
Area Labor Federation will be the in studio guest on Radio Free
Kingston discussing labor issues.
Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation
WEBSITE |
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RECENT
SHOWS AND GUESTS
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June 8th Radio Free Kingston will present an hour wih Gerald Celente of The Trends Research Institute, the world leader in trend forecasting delivers concise, deployable success strategies to corporate clients.
As always phone lines will be open for your questions and comments. |
May 25 Mike Hein, Ulster County Administrator. Ulster County received a $260,000 grant to study local government shared services. The grant is being administered through the Administrator's office.
May 11... Jim Shaughnessy, a member of the Kingston School board who will be talking about the project to create a Kingston High School museum.
OPEN LINE DAY
May 5 Discussion of the presidential primary and election and other timely issues.
Listen to the show
April 27 John Pietaro and Laurie Towers. John is an organizer with the Healthcare Education Project, a collaborative initiative of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, and the Greater New York hospital Association. The goals of the Project are to advocate for universal healthcare, to educate New Yorkers about already available affordable healthcare opportunities and to fight budgetary cuts which have hurt healthcare for working people. The event will be held on Saturday, May 3 at the Muddy Cup in Kingston. John and Laurie are musicians, also known as The Flames of Discontent (their website).
Mary Leahy and Carole Furman
April 13...Mary Leahy and Carole Furman from the Saugerties Library Board. Carole is a builder, and has been leading the process of making sure the new library building follows the LEED building process. The Saugerties Library is putting a referendum in front of voters to approve a $7 million bond on May 7.What is LEED®?The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.
Listen to the show
March 30 Fran Wishnick from the Resource Center for Accessible LivingDiscussion about the kinds of situations Fran is finding with Ulster County residents needing to access Social Security disability (SSDI), SSI and Medicaid (and a little about Medicare), Family Health Plus and Healthy New York. I’d also talk about the shortage of specialists taking fee-for-service Medicaid in this area and describe Medicaid managed care. It all sounds esoteric but these are the “systems” that people with disabilities have to navigate. I’ll try to simplify and give real-life examples of Ulster County residents, without names
March 16, Martha Frankel of Woodstock. Ms. Frankel is the author of 'Hats & Eyeglasses, A Family Love Affair with Gambling".
Her website.
March 2 Susan Jacoby author of several books, most recently The Age of American Unreason
...This impassioned, tough-minded work of contemporary history paints a disturbing portrait of a mutant strain of public ignorance, anti-rationalism, and anti-intellectualism that has developed over the past four decades and now threatens the future of American democracy.
Susan Jacoby website
Sunday Feb. 24 - Patrick McDonough, Rosendale Supervisor talking about the problems and concerns of towns as well as Patrick's plans and goals as supervisor. website
Listen to the show
February 17 Kevin Cahill, NY Assemblyman. Kevin was recently named chair of the Assembly Energy Committee. This is a prodigious appointment, and we will be discussing this new committee assignment and related issues. Press release...
Listen to the show
February 10, Carol Kraus and Vaughn Smith of the Hudson Valley Real Property Tax Reform group in discussion on property tax reform.
Jan. 27 Don Gregorious the new chair of the Human Services Committee in the Ulster County Legislature which is responsible for Department of Social Services (DSS) and Amee Petersen, activist from Kingston.
Jan. 20 Jon Sennett
former candidate for Ulster County District Attorney
Jan. 13 Judith Simon, a local activist and state officer in Citizen Action of NY. on voting machine technology
March 4 show...Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer
and media critic who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986.
His new book is Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in
Corporate Media. He was an on-air commentator (and "Donahue"
senior producer) at MSNBC in 2002/2003; a weekly "News
Watch" panelist on Fox News Channel from 1997 to 2002:
a co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" in 1996.
Contact FAIR.org |
May 27 Andi Novick of Northeast Citizens for
Responsible Media (Re-Media)
WEBSITE |
Activists Sue Rosenberg
and Angela Morano. They were on the show immediately
after returning from Camp Casey. Angela has also been on the
show talking about veterans benefits. |
Jim Gordon with Gary
on Radio Free Kingston December 3rd. Gordon is an investigative
reporter with Ulster Publishing. He is well known to readers
of the Saugerties Times, Woodstock Times, Kingston Times, Southern
Ulster Pioneer and New Paltz Times. The show highlighted the
PCB problem in the Hudson River |
John Kahn on Feb 25 show
with Gary to discuss his Easter island Foundation
Web site |
Art Richter, and Lenny Walker
on the Feb 18
Lenny is an Alderman for the City of Kingston. |
Art Richter, Steve Hopkins
and Gary on the show January 14.
Steve is the editor of Kingston Times. |
Ron Wade of Save Them Now,
an organization that helps released prisoners transition into
society |
| May 20 - Terry Breitenstein
- Ulster County Veterans' Service Agency, Veterans Issue |
Feb. 11. Judith Greenfield
judith@healthcp.org
Healthcare Communication Project, Inc.
PO Box 661 Stone Ridge, NY 12484 845-687-2328
WEBSITE |
| December 2, discussion of Ulster
County's new Ethics Law. The in studio guests will be the two
citizen members of the Ulster County Board of Ethics, Lorraine
Rosenberg and Lanny Walter. |
Danny Schechter
promoting his newest film"In Debt We Trust"
See a clip |
Aug. 19 - Sherri Brittain,
Executive Director of Ulster Arts Alliance, and manager of Impromptu
Productions.
Sherri is an outspoken advocate for artists, the arts and promotion
of art in Ulster County |
Nov 18 Group homes in Kingston
Nora Strano 845 255 3740
The Queens Galley
Diane Reeder 845-338-3468
WEBSITE |
| May 13 - Josh Boughton
- Nutrition and Health, Josh is knowledgable about vitamins,
vitamin supplements, and nutrition in general |
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