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Charlottesville Right Now, 4pm – 6pm

Charlottesville Right Now, 4pm – 6pm

We go beyond the headlines into the important stories that matter to us locally.
Join NewsRadio WINA’s Courteney Stuart weekdays for the news and newsmakers of the day.

Tuesday, October 7, 201410/07/2014

Matt Thornhill

Matt Thornhill, Founder & President Boomer Project and GenerationsMatter, joins Les Sinclair to discuss the coming age shift. He talks about the effect will it have on Charlottesville and what we need to do to prepare.

Tuesday, October 7, 201410/07/2014

Evan Steinberg

Evan Steinberg is a friend of Hannah Graham and joins Les Sinclair to talk about their friendship.

Monday, October 6, 201410/06/2014

Evan Steinberg

Evan Steinberg is a friend of Hannah Graham and joins Les Sinclair to help us know the missing young woman a little better.

Monday, October 6, 201410/06/2014

Tammy Arnette

Tammy Arnette, AAA Mid-Atlantic joins Les Sinclair with tips, for East-West commuters, on how to drive safer with the sun lower in the sky, this time of year.

Monday, October 6, 201410/06/2014

Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen, CBS Legal Analyst, joins Les Sinclair to explain the latest developments in same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court has decided not to hear any of the cases in question.

Monday, October 6, 201410/06/2014

James Sawyer

James Sawyer, the new Blue Ridge PACE director, joins the program in-studio.

Monday, October 6, 201410/06/2014

Dori Zook

Dori Zook, WINA News, joins Les Sinclair to tells us about how the the latest developments from the Supreme Court regarding same-sex marriages are impacting our area.

Friday, October 3, 201410/03/2014

Rick Britton

150 Years Ago This Month: Civil War historian Rick Britton talks about the major event in Virginia in October of 1864–the battle of Cedar Creek. Cedar Creek–fought on October 19, 18 miles south of Winchester–was the last major battle in the Shenandoah Valley. It pitted Confederate Gen. Jubal Early’s force of 18,000 against Union Gen. Phil Sheridan’s army of 30,000. Despite being outnumbered, Early attacked at dawn, catching the Federal soldiers unawares. Early gained ground in the morning–capturing the Federal camps–but was driven from the field in the afternoon when Sheridan dramatically rallied his dispirited troops and counter-attacked. The fall of Atlanta and the victory at Cedar Creek helped Abraham Lincoln win re-election in November of 1864.

FREE Lecture at the Senior Center on October 8 at 6:00 pm: Andrew O’Shaughnessy, the Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies (at Monticello), will be speaking on “The Turning Point in the Carolinas,” the American victories in North and South Carolina during the American Revolution that caused British General Lord Charles Cornwallis to turn his attention to Virginia. This decision led to Yorktown and British defeat.

Friday, October 3, 201410/03/2014

Cynthia Fraser

Cynthia Fraser, Associate Professor, at the University of Virginia and expert in Marketing, Consumer behavior joins Les Sinclair with why that song on the TV commercial is ruined by being on there.

Thursday, October 2, 201410/02/2014

Russ Rader

Russ Rader is the Senior Vice President, Communications for the IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and joins Les Sinclair to tell us about collision avoidance systems. Do they work? Will they lower you insurance rates?

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