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In Britain during the 1920s, a flamboyant group of youth threw never-ending scandalous parties and acted like dancers stepping ever closer to a precipice’s edge. This glittering group of the wild and carefree included such luminaries as Cecil Beaton and Evelyn Waugh. But their way of life would soon be over as Britain stumbled into a serious economic crisis as the war with Germany loomed. Tune in tonight when we talk with literary critic and author D.J.

Guest: Owner Jay Soloff
DeLILLE CELLARS is a small winery located in Woodinville, Washington. Simply stated, their goal is to make the very best handcrafted, old-world style red and white wine made in the State of Washington. They are a family owned winery with an uncompromising philosophy about the quality of what will be in your bottle of wine.

Grace Ross, one of the organizers of the newly formed Massachusetts Alliance Against Foreclosure. We'll talk about putting an end to predatory and illegally discriminatory lending practices
The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending is a newly formed coalition of over 30 community organizations, housing counseling agencies, legal services groups and others who have come together to work on the sub-prime foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts. The Alliance will focus its work on the following areas:

The purpose of the Zeytoonian Center is to help Its clients resolve disputes in ways that are cost-effective and time-efficient and that minimize the drain on its clients’ resources and damage to their relationships and organizations.  
Based on Wellesley, the Center also works with clients to take proactive measures and address situations early on, before they become conflicts, claims or lawsuits.

With global warming a hot news topic, for the first time it is really hitting home: Extreme climate change, a growing list of endangered species and an astonishingly flippant attitude
about recycling.
Our world will soon be in the hands of our children. Are they educated enough about the growing environmental problems in order to not only be interested in them, but also to take action in solving them?

Building on the momentum from last year’s popular Art in the Park exhibition, the Worcester Cultural Commission has invited artists to forward a selection of up to three existing sculptures
or installations for a juried outdoor exhibition from August 6 through September 30 in Elm Park, Artists have been encouraged to enter particularly large-scale work for installation on the
grounds, floating in one of its three shallow ponds, or suspended from trees.

Eric Schultz, president & CEO of Fallon Community Health Plan.  On
the Business Beat, he'll talk with host Steve D'Agostino about Health
care.  And more specifically about the issue of the number of people
uninsured in the United States. Every campaign, politicians pledge to
address the situation, but little is accomplished.
The lack of action can partially be blamed on fundamental disagreements
on the best solution for achieving universal health care. There are
numerous theoretical approaches, each with its own strengths and
weaknesses.

Kate Toomey is a candidate for mayor of Worcester.
Kate Toomey, a former elementary and secondary school teacher in the Boston Public Schools, is serving her second two-year term as a Worcester City Councilor-At-Large. She previously served three two-year terms as a member of the Worcester School Committee. 
As Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Education, she and her committee members consider all matters pertaining to public education, the public libraries, arts, culture and higher education.

Konnie Lukes, Worcester’s mayor and a candidate for re-election as
mayor.
Konnnie Lukes, a Worcester attorney in private practice, is serving her tenth two-year term as a Councilor-At-Large and her first full-term as Mayor. She previously served as Mayor in 2007 filling the vacancy created by the resignation of  then-Mayor Tim Murray, after he was elected lieutenant governor. 

Albert “Al” Hartheimer is vice president of The Center for the Study of Economics and past adjunct lecturer in economics at Williams College. He has proposed state legislation, House 2767, to, over several years, phase out the property tax, reduce the state sales tax, and impose a land-value tax.
The land-value tax is a radical idea proposed more than century ago by Henry George. An American writer, politician and political economist, Henry George was the most influential proponent of the land-value tax.

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA) service area includes over half a million in population and is the second largest regional transit authority in Massachusetts, serving 35 communities.

The WRTA maintains a fleet of 46 buses and 10 minibuses for 23 fixed routes in Worcester and 10 of the surrounding communities.  

The WRTA also provides paratransit service for the elderly and disabled in the region, in addition to a variety of special services for elderly and disabled residents in the entire service area.

BerkShares are a local currency for the Berkshire region.

Dubbed a "great economic experiment" by the New York Times, BerkShares are a tool for community empowerment, enabling merchants and consumers to plant the seeds for an alternative
economic future for their communities.

Launched in the fall of 2006, BerkShares had a robust initiation, with over 1 million BerkShares having been circulated in the first 9 months and over 2 million to date.  

Currently, more than 360 businesses have signed up to accept the currency.

The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance’s mission is to restore and enhance an enduring marine system supporting a healthy diversity and an abundance of marine life and human uses through a self-organizing and self-governing organization.

Erin Williams of the Worcester Cultural Coalition & Troy Siebels of the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts talk about the Woo Card: Opening the door to Worcester County's cultural community.

This was the lead of the story in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette on January 6, 2009: 
The Worcester Center for Crafts, one of the city’s oldest cultural institutions, has suspended daily operations and may have to close permanently if it cannot raise $1 million by the end of the month.

And this was the headline of the story in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette more than 11 months later on November 25, 2009:

Craft Center comeback: With help from WSC, staff and volunteers, Festival of Crafts returns for 40th year. 

John Bassett will relocate to Heritage University in Washington State following his retirement in June 2010 as president of Clark University in Worcester.

Heritage University is a small, private institution located on land that is part of the Yakama Nation, near Yakima in south-central Washington. John Bassett was formally installed as
Clark’s eighth president in March 2001. At Heritage, he will succeed Heritage's
founding president Dr. Kathleen Ross of the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary), who served for 27 years in the post.

An unassisted triple play is perhaps the rarest event in baseball with only 15 having ever occurred in major league history -- John Valentin was the last Red Sox player to turn one, in 1994.

An equally rare event is having a team of 3 medical providers working in a coordinated and seamless fashion to help you attack your health-related issues.

A triple play at Body Therapeutics is just that -- and it doesn't occur anywhere within 40 miles of Worcester. 

Since Mike O'Brien was appointed City Manager in 2004, he has worked to improve public safety and the delivery of core services, to bolster economic development and to address the long-term financial stability of New England's second-largest city.
Under his leadership, Worcester is rated one of the safest communities in the country -- compared
to cities with a population of 100,000 or more -- and is experiencing more than $1.3 billion in planned or current economic development activity citywide.

Why the Cleveland Clinic is a good role model for truly healthy health care?
“The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care: Cleveland Clinic is both highly effective and fiercely efficient. So why are its methods so rare?”

That’s the title of a November 27, 2009 feature article in Newsweek.

The article begins by noting:

AES is a solutions-oriented company with expertise in providing services to federal Agencies.
AES has specialized knowledge and experience in brownfields assessment and remediation, and in procuring capital for redevelopment planning and development.
President William “Bill” Picard is a land-use and environmental planner, the majority owner and
principal-in-charge of AES. He has over 20 years of environmental project experience in the restoration of commercial and industrial property. 

The Worcester County Food Bank is a community-based non-profit organization whose mission is: To Engage, Educate and Lead Worcester County in Creating a Hunger-Free Community 
During fiscal year 2009, the Worcester County Food Bank distributed 5.3 million pounds of donated food and grocery product to its network of 178 partner agencies that have programs for feeding people including food pantries, community meal sites, and shelters. These agencies provided food to more than 93,000 different people living in Central Massachusetts. 

This was the lead of the story in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette on January 6, 2009:
The Worcester Center for Crafts, one of the city’s oldest cultural institutions, has suspended daily operations and may have to close permanently if it cannot raise $1 million by the
end of the month.
And this was the headline of the story in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette more than 11 months later on November 25, 2009: Craft Center comeback: With help from WSC, staff and volunteers, Festival of Crafts returns for 40th year.