Twin City Talks: Recent Episodes
Winston Salem Journal
Twin City Talks is our new place to exchange ideas about what’s hot - the newest restaurants and watering holes, what’s making you mad or extraordinarily grateful, what we need that we don’t already have, new ways of thinking about old problems, and exploring our shared past and what we love or miss about it. It’s hosted by veteran Triad journalist and Winston-Salem native Paul Garber.
Two years ago, Forsyth County embarked on a new program to help increase the Save rate of abandoned and stray animals. The goal is to reach a safe rate of 90% by the year 2023. Forsyth County Commissioner Dave Plyler recently praised program for its successes. So we wanted to find out more on how it works and how things are going with Sarah Williamson, Executive Director of the Humane Society.
We relive some of the most memorable radio promotions of the past with The Good Guys from WTOB radio in Winston-Salem.
Kim Brand from Audubon North Carolina discusses the bleak outlook for birds and what can be done to give our winged friends a better chance.
Our guest today is Colin Miller, co-founder of the Twin City Harm Reduction Collective. It seeks to improve the health and lives of drug users in the community. Miller also advocates for criminal justice reform and treatment policy reform. Miller says attitudes about marijuana have evolved over the last several years, so we’re going to talk about that change and where marijuana fits into the complicated landscape of substance abuse.
This episode features a discussion about hate crimes and how they're judged in court with Kami Chavis, the director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest School of Law.