Ray Dunaway's Previous Guest list.
Wednesday, 7/1 Ray Off
6:20- Vince Valvo- Group Publisher - The Warren Group. Re: Home prices in Ct slide but the slide could have been worse.
7:20- Duby McDowell- WFSB Political analyst and public relations consultant. Re: Discuss state politics and budget outlook and overall summer campaigning.
7:50- Talcott Mtn Music Festival. The Sounds Of Summer. June 26th thru July 17th. Concert series includes things like Summer groove, Abbamania and Classical’s Greatest hits.
8:20- Karen Toree. New Haven trial lawyer, litigates civil rights issues in the federal courts. Re: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of 20 New Haven firefighters who claim in a reverse discrimination case that they were denied promotion for racial reasons.
8:50- Don Orsillo-NESN Play By Play. Re: Red Sox Preview and Recap.
Thursday, 7/2
6:20- Dr. David Eigen, a leading psychologist and author of Men - The Gods of Love and Women - The Gods of Wisdom. Re: Dr. Eigen can discuss in detail what it is about celebrities that make us cry when the pass.
8:20- Craig Nelson, historian and author of Rocket Men. Re: history of the Apollo 11 moon landing that includes interviews with never before profiled Apollo 11 engineers & scientists that reveal many surprising and little know facts about the first moon landing mission
Friday, 7/3
6:20- Dr. McKay- Hartford Hospital Dr. specializing in toxicology. Re: FDA warning pertaining to Acetaminophen and liver damage.
7:20- Colleen Raezler of the Culture and Media Institute. Re: How the Broadcast Networks Trivialize Patriotism.
7:50- Wayne Norman- Boom Box Parade Grand Marshall.
8:20- Kevin Underhill- a partner in the San Francisco office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and founder of loweringthebar.net a web blog dedicated to wacky lawsuits.
8:50- Guy Big Y- BBQ tips and Ideas for the Holiday weekend.
Monday, 7/6
6:20-Dr. David Hull- Director of Transplant Surgery at Hartford Hospital. Re: Organ transplants does not necessarily go by the factors that we would seem to think.
7:20- Pat Michaels Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at CATO- Re: Cap and trade scam, especially the part about having to retrofit your house to be "green" before you can sell it. We call at
8:20- Prof. Rich Hanley- School of Communications at Quinnipiac. Re: Protecting images of Obama's kids, the White House barring photos of the kids to be taken.
8:50- Melissa Henson- Director of Communications and Public Education for the Parents Television Council . Re: Recent Nielsen data shows that despite reports to the contrary, “American teens actually watch more TV than they ever have (with a 6 percent increase during the past five years)
Tuesday, 7/7
6:20- Bruce Nevins owns WineWise in Greenwich, CT. He’s been a vocal supporter of Sunday sales.
7:20-Ariel Cohen lead Russia analyst with The Heritage Foundation. Re: Pres. Obama’s visit to Russia.
7:50- Peggy Hall- Hill-Stead Farmers’ Market. CT Grown Destination of the Week
8:20- Betty Buckley Hartford Stage kicks off its sizzling summer line up of music and comedy with legendary theater, film, and music star Betty Buckley in her cabaret show, Broadway by Request.- Live in Studio
8:50- Dr. Tracey Krasnow, Child Psychologist, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Re: New study that a suprizing number of tens think they’ll die young.
Wednesday, 7/8
6:20- Linda St. Peter, from the Ct Realtor’s Association. Re: spoke at the rally and represents 18000 realtors in the state who support SustiNet. Also she is cochair of Small Businesses for Health Care Reform.
7:20- Mayor Eddie Perez. Re: Art Stimulus in the city, City Budget look on State budget.
8:20- Pat Michaels Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at CATO- Re: Cap and trade scam, especially the part about having to retrofit your house to be "green" before you can sell it.
8:50- Don Orsillo- NESN Red Sox Play By Play
Thursday, 7/9
6:20- Deb Greatsinger- fiancé was saved by a Burlington firefighter, with a defibrillator – called an AED (automated external defibrillator). On Tuesday (June 23), Deb gathered with others to celebrate the Town of Burlington’s designation as a “HeartSafe” community by the American Heart Association. The designation, officially awarded earlier in the year, recognized Burlington for having the people and tools to save lives.
7:20- Chris Murphy. Re: To Tour Green Jobs Open House, Promote Connecticut's Edge in Job Training for New Green Economy.
7:50- Joe Marfuggi- President and CEO of Riverfront. Re: River fest
8:20- Keith Devlin Executive Director, H-STAR Institute Stanford University. Re: article, 10 Reasons Why BMI is Bogus.
8:50- Shelly Sindland- PAMPERS & POLITICS. Re Political happenings in State. Where we are going with the budget, Gov Vetos, ect.
Friday, 7/10
6:20- Eric Schurenberg. CBS MoneyWatch.com [www.moneywatch.com] Editor-in-Chief. Re: 5 THINGS THAT COULD KILL THE HOUSING RECOVERY.
7:20- Jimmy Bise- Writer for the American Issues Project along with sundriesshack.com- Re: Cap and Trade bill and what it will mean to home owners.
7:50- Tom Draper - chairperson of the National Train Show - is available to do the phone interview. He's the "head man" for the event. Re: Train show being held at Convention Center this weekend
8:20-Patty Roohr (pronounced ROAR)- of Marketing at Duncaster, Bloomfield's signature life care retirement community. and Kathy Bornhorst- partner in Wealth Preservation practice of Pepe & Hazard LLP. She is an estate and business succession planning attorney. Re: The Panini Generation – Now that Baby Boomers are caught between their own retirement needs and the needs of their aging parents, there’s a new slant on the old Sandwich Generation quandary.
8:50- OPEN PHONES.!!!..
Monday, 7/13
6:20- Dr. Scherzer, Uconn Medical Center, RE: Childhood Obesity .
7:20- Rep Joe Courtney- Re: Legislative issues and adgendas.
8:20- Suzanna Resco- Regional AAA Manager-. Re: Summer Travel Destination, Where does it seem CT Residents are going this year. Do we see people saving and going on one big vacation instead of little stay-cations this year.
8:50-Dr. Greg Rabidoux, author of "Hollywood, Then and Now". Re: Many people were astonished that a former not-ready-for-prime-time “Saturday Night Live” player could become a senator.
Tuesday, 7/14
6:20- Jim Bergenn- Re: Mayor Perez case possibly being sealed.
7:20- David Lightman- McClatchy News Paper Writer. Re: Sotomayor hearing.
7:50- Chris Staehly. CT Grown Destination of the Week. From Staehly Farm in East Haddam.
8:20- Steve Milloy- Junk Science dot com. Re: As talk of cap-and-trade becomes more pertinent in Washington, many Americans are curious as to how such regulation will affect everyday life. Two senators have proposed to make the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the sole cap-and-trade regulator.
Wednesday. 7/15
6:20- Neil Trautwein- Vice President and Employee Benefits Policy Counsel for the National Retail Federation. Re: What Nationalized Health Care would mean to small businesses,
7:20- Keith Phaneuf- Is the state sweeping its budget problems where they won’t be seen?
8:20- Francis & Stephen Cobb. Have traveled the world from China to every state in the US for over six decades. Over the years, they have developed some strategies for dealing with the challenges of traveling as they get older. Re: With Summer travel coming in to full swing they will provide Travel Tips for Seniors.
8:50- Steve Werbenr- Town Manager for Tolland. Re: Tolland Named 27th Best Small Town To Live In America.
Thursday, 7/16
6:20- Vince Valvo- Group Publisher for the Warren Group. Re: Up scale home sales lag and clog system of unsold homes.
7:20- David Yalof- Associate Professor-Constitutional law, Judicial Politics, the Presidency, American Government at UConn School of Political Science. Re: Sotomayor hearings.
8:20- Kenneth Edwards, President of CABLE.Post University will host a 40-person Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) session in partnership with the Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement (CABLE). Re: The program is designed to train police officers to recognize the signs of irrational and/or dangerous behavior associated with mental illness, and intervene in a way that ensures the safety of the community, the officers, and the person in crisis.
8:50-John Lyman- Executive Vice President of Lyman Orchards, represents the eighth generation of his family to be directly involved in the business Now in its 265th year. Lyman Orchards celebrates their mid-summer crops – blueberries, raspberries and jostaberries, with the 9th annual Berry Fest, a day-long fun filled, family celebration.
Friday, 7/17
6:20- Chris Healy- Connecticut Republican Chairman, Re: Dodd and his contributions.
7:20- Mary Anne Cox- Assistant Chancellor of the Connecticut Community Colleges (and operates as the State of Connecticut agency Board of Trustees of Community-Technical Colleges). Re: Obama wants to give 12 Million Dollars to Community colleges to help them strengthen their competitiveness in the global economy.
7:50- Katherine Farmer One of the UConn Students biking across US, Re: Funds raised are to support Leas Foundation.
8:20- Jeff Blodgett, chief economist for the Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC), and Jean Stimolo, program manager for the CT Department of Transportation's Telecommute Connecticut. Re: economic impact the H1N1 flu can have on Connecticut's economy, should its expected return occur this fall.
8:50- Restaurant of the Week.
Monday, 7/20
6:20- Kristine Larsen, Ph.D. Director, Honors Program
Professor of Physics and Astronomy CCSU. Re: Apollo 11 landing on the moon 20 years ago.
7:20 Gov Rell- How things are going generally on the budget front.
7:50- Commissioner of Consumer Protection. Re: FREE Shredding Event coming up on that magic date, (July 25th) at a couple of locations. The event is totally FREE and is costing the State absolutely nothing.
8:20- Seven Crowder-correspondent and political comic from PJTV-Canada Health Care Hidden Camera Report.
Tuesday, 7/21
6:20- Senator Don Williams –D re: Veto Override. He calls us.
7:20- Keith Phaneuf, Journal Inquirer Re: Capitol happenings. He will call.
7:50- Sally Furth-CT Grown Destination of the Week. Starberry Farm. Wahington Depot.
8:20- Harlan Cohen- Book: The Naked Roommate: And 107 other Issues You Might Run Into In College. What Students and Parents should be prepared for with going off to college
Wednes day, 7/22
6:20- Fred Carstensen, Director, CT Center for Economic Analysis at UConn RE: CT may not be the place to be long term.
7:20- Dotty Lynch, CBS News Political Consultant from CBS Moneywatch Re: Bernanke before Congress .
7:50- Dayna Snell-executive director of the Queen Ann Nzinga’s (Na-Zinga) Center in Plainville, the concert’s organizer Re: Free Africa-Inspired Concert at The Bushnell July 25.
8:20- Steven Raichlen- Multi-award-winning author, journalist, cooking teacher, and TV host, Steven Raichlen is the man who reinvented barbecue. Re: story in the WSJ about higher cuts of meat being cheaper and how you can take advantage of that.
8:50- Don Orsillo- Red Sox Play by Play on NESN.
Thursday, 7/23
6:20- Doug Schwartz, Director, Quinnipiac University Poll Re: Rell, Dodd and Legislative Democrats.
7:20- Rob Simmons . Running for State Senate
7:50- Dana Perry- BOY INTERRUPTED TELLS THE STORY OF A TEENAGER WHO LOST HIS BATTLE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER WHEN THE HEARTBREAKING DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS AUG. 3, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO.
8:00-9:00 in Studio- Rich Hanley
Friday, 7/24
6:20 Dr. Laureen Rubino, President of The Hartford County Medical Association Re: 97% attrition rate of doctors trained in CT who leave. She calls us.
7:20 David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers, DC RE: DC Happenings.
7:50 Tom Kiewcki, Middle School Chorale Director in Farmington Valley Re: Producing West Side Story with past students; his original venue fell thru and was able to secure the Bushnell’s Belding Theater
8:20- Jack Nerad, Executive Director and Executive Market Analyst for Kelly Blue Book Re; Cash for Clunkers
8:50- phones (No Rest. of Week)
Monday, 7/27
6:20 Carol A. Pfeiffer, PhD, Professor Dept of Medicine and Director of clinical skills assessment program at Uconn School of Medicine. Re: Doctors finding if you say “sorry” for misdiagnosis less likely to be sued.
7:20 Rexford Santerre, PhD, Professor of Finance and Healthcare Management at UConn RE: President Obama says doctors and nurses are buying into the universal healthcare plan; but he says nothing about Insurance companies Where do they stand?
7:50 Katherine Gill, Cultural Promotions & Marketing Manager, Greater Hartford Arts Council Re: Taste of Hartford this week.
8:20 - Attny Jim Bergenn, Shipman & Goodwin Re: Grand Jury Report of Mayor Eddie Perez
8:50 Phones
Tuesday, 7/28
6:20- Fergus Cullen- Executive Dir. For the Yankee Institute. Re: Wealth paying their fair share on Income Taxes.
7:20- Pete Gioia- Vice President and economist for CT Business and Industry Association. Re: CONNECTICUT CREDIT CONDITIONS LOWEST ON RECORD Most recent CBIA/TD Banknorth Survey reveals dramatic deterioration
7:50- Gary Priam (PRY - am) Re: CT Grown Destination.- Priam Vineyards, LLC in Colchester.
8:20- Ken Lin- CEO Of Credit Karma-Am online website that you can get your credit score for free. Portions of the new Credit Card Bill of Rights begin to take effect in August, with additional regulations set to start in 2010.
8:50- Jim Starr- executive director, achieve Hartford. Re: Hartford Public Schools after the Reforming System.
Wednesday, 7/29
6:20- Captain Keith Colburn of the Wizard. Re: Deadliest Catch Season Finale.
7:20- Marc Randazza- First Amendment attorney . Re: Technology privacy and Law. Ie: ESPN’s Erin Andrews videotaping. How can and who can you go after on something that technology can spread so fast.
7:50- Sam Caligiuri- candidate for U.S. Senate. Re: Running against Dodd.
8:20- Philip Alcabes- about his new book DREAD. Re: How we in America are facing a Pandemic of Pandemics.
8:50- Don Orsillo- NESN Play By Play. He calls. Back up.
Thursday, 7/30
6:20- Norm Pattis-Criminal defense attorney in Bethel. Re: With more and more laws sexual offenders rights are not on par with the laws that are there to protect them at the same time.
7:20- Keith Phaneuf- Journal Inq. Political Writer. Re: States budget talks.
8:20- Brian Walsh- Senior Legal Research Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Re: mass amounts of incomprehensible federal laws. You are probably breaking one with out even knowing it.
8:50-Pattie McKnight. She and her husband own a restaurant in North Haven. Pattie also serves on the Board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts (they give grants to local non-profits that help children on a quarterly basis). Re: The iconic Happy Meal will be celebrating its 30th birthday this month, and to honor that, the local franchise owners are GIVING gifts. 8:53- Sen. John Kissel- (R) 7th District. Re: Calls for Investigation at Northern
Following inmate death at Northern, Sen. Kissel calls for DOC investigation
Friday, 7/31
6:20- Rep. Cam Staples- co-Chair of the Finance Committee, and he's from the 96th district serving New Haven & Hamden. Re: State budgets being released and what we are looking at when they take effect.
7:20- Gov Rell- State Budget scenario.
8:20- David Lightman- McClatchy Newspaper Washington Writer. Re: Sen Dodd, Sotomayor, Cap and Trade Bill along with Health Care bill, What about Bo?
8:50- Restaurant of the week. The Great Taste Gala. Friday Night Sept 25th at the Convention Center. (Think Wine fest) In studio will be- Betty Waypa Greater Hartford Jaycee Great Taset Chairwoman, Mike Guinan- (Hartford Magazine)
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