Bob Leweke

On this week's Second Look, WMRA's Sefe Emokpae has the details of this year's IMPACT Charlottesville meeting.... Brit Moorer brings us the scene and the sounds of the Music Resource Center musicians taking their music outside to drivers stuck in traffic, sessions that are appropriately called "Traffic Jams".... and Virginia Public Radio's Sandy Hausman takes a deep look at parole in Virginia, and how it might be reformed.

On this episode of Second Look, WMRA's Jessie Knadler examines the effect of Virginia's topsy-turvy spring weather on local vineyards, and whether climate change might be a factor.... Jordy Yager has a follow-up to our Refugees in Virginia series, with a look at one Burmese family literally making a new home for themselves in Charlottesville, with some help from Habitat for Humanity....  plus Christopher Clymer Kurtz's report on why Saturday, April 23 is going to be mediation pioneer Larry Hoover’s Day in Harrisonburg.... We've also got the week's statewide news... and Our Island Universe!

On this episode of Second Look, WMRA's Christopher Clymer Kurtz explores interfaith relationships, both at the level of church, mosque and synagogue, and within one interfaith family.... We look at Virginia's latest jobs numbers (they're good).... and we've also got the latest installments of The Spark and Our Island Universe.

On this edition of Second Look, WMRA's Emily Richardson-Lorente takes us on a comprehensive tour of Sweet Briar College one year after it almost closed.... WMRA's Dan Easley talks with JMU professor Paul Bogard about his latest efforts to raise awareness of the effects of light pollution.... and we have reports from Virginia Public Radio on a guest worker victory in a Charlottesville court, a Virginia Tech survey of health care attitudes, and the prospects for a raise in Virginia's minimum wage.  And, on Our Island Universe.... what's "eating" Pluto?

On this week's Second Look, WMRA's Jessie Knadler hears from Staunton residents who braved snow on the last day of winter to help create a sort of city scrapbook.... she also attended an anti-KKK rally in Lexington... and explained the science behind marijuana's medicinal "Entourage Effect."  We also have a look at the effort of some Charlottesville officials to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park, and we'll sift through the archives for Bob Leweke's interview with Paula Poundstone.

On this week's edition of Second Look, WMRA's Emily Richardson-Lorente takes us to one classroom in Albemarle County where students are enjoying a unique educational version of the popular videogame Minecraft.... In Virginia news, we look at two studies -- one looking at how pipelines might affect property values, and another at trends on college campuses.... and, we meet two photographers documenting a very diverse part of Virginia.  Plus, Our Island Universe and The Spark!

On this weekend's Second Look, WMRA's Jessie Knadler talks to those who still feel left out of Virginia's slowly changing laws restricting the use of marijuana extracts for medicine.... We talk to Virginia lawmakers about the prospects of a Trump nomination.... And we turn the pages of a book that explores the punishment of a black woman a century ago.... We've also got The Spark and Our Island Universe!

In this week's edition of Second Look, WMRA's Christopher Clymer Kurtz, Jessie Knadler and Emily Richardson-Lorente went to their respective neighborhood polling places and elicited the sentiments of voters, who went for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Virginia.... Brit Moorer takes us on a tour of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir near Charlottesville.... and Jordy Yager concludes our #RefugeesinVirginia series with a look at preparations for the next wave of Congolese refugees, and the work of the pastor of a little church in Barboursville.  We've also got this week's installment of The Spark!

On this week's Second Look, we continue to learn about our refugee neighbors with WMRA's Jordy Yager.... Sefe Emokpae takes us on a listening tour of a new Virginia Folklife Program exhibit featuring eastern Virginia's gospel music.... plus, some General Assembly news, and this week's episode of Our Island Universe.

On this week's edition of Second Look, #RefugeesinVirginia rolls on, as WMRA's Jordy Yager introduces us to the doctors doing very special work treating the unique medical needs of their refugee patients in Charlottesville, and Jordy also discovers a new program there that's training newcomers for work, with the promise of a job at the other end.... and WMRA's Jessie Knadler has the story of the big employer near Harrisonburg that hires lots of refugees, and even helps pay for them to learn English.  We also explore how the death of Antonin Scalia might affect former Governor Bob McDonnell's corruption appeal... and, we've also got this week's installment of Our Island Universe.

On this week's Second Look, WMRA's Jordy Yager and Jessie Knadler continue our Refugees in Virginia series, with a focus on children.... Jessie also got a preview of this year's Mock Convention (Mock Con) at W&L (to see who they chose as this year's Republican nominee, click here).... and, Virginia Public Radio reports on a Republican proposal in the General Assembly to give a tax break to parents whose kids don't go to public school.

On this weekend's Second Look, we compile our first three installments in our series on Refugees in Virginia, by Jessie Knadler and Jordy Yager.... and, Christopher Clymer Kurtz talked to the woman with the first confirmed case of imported Zika in Virginia.

We devote much of this week's Second Look to action in the General Assembly, where legislators debated concealed carry and cops in classrooms.  We also meet the Virginia Tech researcher who may be saving Flint, Michigan's water supply.... and we've got this week's episodes of The Spark and Our Island Universe, too!