Today is the first visit to the Morning Show of Dr. Veronique Tran, the president of Gateway Technical College. She assumed the presidency of GTC on July 1st. This interview aired on the first day of class for this fall semester.

*Intermittently through the month of September, we are airing newly recorded as well as archival interviews to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11." Today- Jim Dwyer, a Pulitizer Prize-winning writer and longtime reporter for the New York Times, talks about the book "102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers." He co-authored the book with Kevin Flynn, which was published in 2005. Dwyer passed away in 2020.

From 2004 - Richard Thieme, author of "Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual World."

From 2020 - Matt Richtel, author of "An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System."

From the archives (2003) - Todd Gitlin talks about his book "Letters to a Young Activist."

We speak with Camille Busette, a representative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about their new initiative titled "One Nation - Overcharged," which is meant to raise awareness about the plight of Americans who have difficulty coping with the high cost of health care.

*Intermittently through the month of September, we are airing newly recorded as well as archival interviews to commemorate the 25th anniversry of 9/11.*. Today- Gwendolyn Bounds, former Wall Street Journal reporter, talks about her memoir- "Little Chapel on the River." She was one of the thousands of people living in Manhattan at the time of 9/11 who suddenly found themselves homeless. Bounds ultimately resettled in a small community in the Hudson River Valley .... where she lives to this very day. She says in the book that this was an instance of "not just figuring out where to live... but how to live."

One week after the start of classes and a new school year, we speak with Dr. John Swallow, the President of Carthage College.

*Intermittently through the month of September, we are airing newly recorded as well as archival interviews to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11*. Part One- Dave Dunbar, co-author of "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts." The book, which actually grew out of an article in Popular Mechanics, methodically examines the many conspiracy theories that sprang up in the wake of 9/11. Part Two- A 2005 conversation with the late Dr. Jack Keating, who was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside from 1998 to 2008. His academic field was Psychology, and the primary focus of his research was on how people behave during disasters and other kinds of crisis- and what sort of trauma do they experience and carry with them in the aftermath.

From 2011 - Ethan Trex, author of "Mental Floss-The Book: Only the Greatest Lists in the History of Listory."

We speak with Dr. Lynn Akey, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, at the outset of a new school year.