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Lisa Baden – Traffic Reporter and Radio Personality

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Lisa Baden on internal conflict of the overwhelming desire to be first to report, and the discipline to verify before:

So I had to confirm it and I was like chomping at the bit. We’re calling M Dot. We’re calling Transportation. We’re calling the police. Well finally we got confirmation. Yes. A tar truck just turned over and that was hours of cleanup. I mean hours but so although I would love to be first, I desire accuracy more.

Lisa Baden, Traffic Reporter and Radio Personality, with Andy Ockershausen
Lisa Baden, Traffic Reporter and Radio Personality, with host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town. It’s Andy Ockershausen and what an absolute treasure and pleasure it is for Janice and I to welcome a very, very famous person in our life [Read more…] about Lisa Baden – Traffic Reporter and Radio Personality

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Marianne Haney Brennan – Etiquette Coach, Mrs. Brennan’s School of Etiquette

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Marianne Haney Brennan on the importance of manners today ~

“We need to get back to being kind to each other. . .we’re in a sad state of affairs right now and it breaks my heart. And that’s why I teach etiquette from A to Z. I don’t care. You know what? Time goes on but manners don’t change. Manners are manners. Whether they were the 1800s or they’re the 2019.”

Marianne Haney Brennan and host Andy Ockershausen in studio interview
Marianne Haney Brennan, Etiquette Coach, and host Andy Ockershausen in studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen. This is Our Town speaking and I wanted to explain to her, this is not an interview. We are having a conversation. Marianne Brennan, welcome [Read more…] about Marianne Haney Brennan – Etiquette Coach, Mrs. Brennan’s School of Etiquette

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Tom Davis – Retired Congressman and Rector, George Mason University

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Tom Davis on politics today in Northern Virginia~

They’ve done it to themselves because they’ve emphasized these social issues, in an area that’s becoming much more widely diverse, instead of focusing on the bread and butter and the economic issues that basically decide the success or not of every jurisdiction. They just priced themselves out of the market. So even where they were right on a number of issues, you had young people, people of color, just pushing the mute button when you had the Republican label.

Tom Davis - Retired Congressman and Rector, George Mason University and host Andy Ockershausen
Tom Davis – Retired Congressman and Rector, George Mason University and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town and this is Andy Ockershausen and we’re so fortunate to have a friend for many, many years who sort of disappeared part of our life, but [Read more…] about Tom Davis – Retired Congressman and Rector, George Mason University