Archive of Past Shows
Watch Public Perspective videos online as host Kevin McDermottt interviews leading figures in Chicago and suburban politics and business.
Richard Reeder: Author
Chester Kulis: Professor
Heather Randazzo: Advocate Health Care
Lee Goodman: Stop Concealed Carry, Illinois
Dominic Pacyga, Ph. D.: Author of "Chicago, a Biography"
Susan and Steven Arvanites: Petite Opera Productions
Mariyana Spyropoulos: Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Arbdella "Della" Patterson and Kevin McDermott: Proviso 209 Board of Education Candidates
Clarence Goodman: Chicago Historian, Tour Guide and Musician
Robert Goldsborough: Author, "Archie Meets Nero Wolf"
Thomas Gary: Trustee, Triton College
John Breen and Naderh Elrabadi: Arab American Bar Association
Phil Lauricella: Living Historian
Adopt a Husky:
Beth Isaacs & Kamille Braschar: PING!
Luigi Zingales: Author, "A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity"
Jack Baldus: Owner, Blue Eyed Jack, LaGrange, IL
Cadet Baig, Cadet Brooks, and Lt. Brown: Civil Air Patrol
JoAnn Allen and Dana Posley: Chicago Regional Breast Feeding Task Force
George Bailey, Ph. D.: Author of "Haunted Exiles"
Rep. Karen Yarbrough: Illinois House of Representatives, 7th Dist and Candidate for Cook County Recorder of Deeds
Dr. Lorene Wu, M.D. Dipl. Ac.: The Whole Life Center
Susan Baushke, Steve Arvanites and Cathy Dunn-Protopapas: Petite Opera Productions
Leslie Coolidge: 6th Congressional District Candidate
Lois and Ernie Baumann: Maywood Fine Arts Association
Robert Johnston: Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago
Louise Knight: Scholar and Author
Faustin A. Pipal, Jr.: Attorney and Mediator
Alena Skeels: Peace Corps Volunteer
Tessa Simonds and Tom Alter: G8 and NATO Information
Nancy Pipal: Executive Presence and Style Consultant
Sharon Sanders and Steve Alesch: Move to Amend
Jill Bass: Mikva Challenge
Matthew Lynch and Bob Otter: Chicago Jesuit Academy
Nancy Stevenson: President, Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy
Lisa Drake, Executive Director, CASA of DuPage County: CASA of DuPage Count advocates for abused, neglected and dependent children in the courts.
Justice Joy Virginia Cunningham: Candidate for Illinois Supreme Court
Justice Joy Virgina Cunningham: Candidate for Illinois Supreme Court
Glenn Barker: ManKind Project, Part II
Glenn Barker: ManKind Project, Part I
Nichole Patton: Cook County Judicial Candidate
David Borris: Chicago Peace Action
Justin Snyder and Leilani Narciso: Opera In Focus
Cathy Protopapas and Susan Baushke: Petite Opera Productions
Shea Walters and Henry Lunn: Petite Opera, Part II
Karen Yarbrough, Illinois State Representative, 7th District: Issues important to the State and District
Det. Arthur Hannus, Ret. : Chicago Police Memorial Foundation
Yaser Tabbara: Syria Unrest
Thomas Gary: Triton College Board Member
Petite Opera Productions: Petite Opera Productions
Ed Yonhka, ACLU: Civil Unions and Privacy Rights
Sue Salach: Aging Info USA
Les Minkus, Founder: Kids Dads Moms
Pablo Boczkowski, Ph. D. Northwestern University School of Communications: Digital Media
Corie Barnes: Generation Fit Kids
William Barclay, Ph.D.: Chicago Political Economy Group
Larry Spivack: AFSCME Council 31
Prof. David Merriman: Fiscal Futures Project--University of Illinois
Chris Haddad and Ed Grossman: Chicago Legal Clinic
Eddie Anguiano and Francine Harrell: Proviso District 209 Candidates
Justice Gino DiVito (ret) and Judge William Haddad: Merit Selection of Judges in Illinois
Joseph D. Taiber: Lowrey Asset Consulting
Faisal Riaz: 10 Million Children Initiative
Joel Sheffel & Karen Yarbrough, IL Rep., 7th Dist.: Website Supplied Access News Association
Don Underwood & Andrea Urban: Babes 'n Beaus Talent & Modeling Agency
James Thindwa: Jobs with Justice
David Marzahl: Center for Economic Progress
Ralph Martire: Center for Tax & Budget Accountability
Collin Hitt: Illinois Policy Institute
Cheryle Jackson: Vice President Government Affairs, AAR CORP
Dr. Kayed Akkawi: Chicago-Amman Sister Cities Program
Todd Stroger: Former President of the Cook County Board
Terrence O'Brien: MWRD President and former Candidate for President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
Toni Preckwinkle: Candidate for President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
Dorothy Brown: Clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court and former Candidate for President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
Some of the guests who have appeared on Public Perspective:
Ms Cheryle Jackson, Vice President, Government Affairs, AAR Corp.
Rep. Karen Yarbrough: Legislative Accomplishments
Sen. Don Harmon: Healthcare, privacy, gun control, education funding
Christine Cegelis & Lindy Scott: Fair trade, O'Hare expansion, health care, minimum wage
Dave Martin & David Borris: Anti-War Majority
Bamshad Mobasher: Privacy & data mining
Ald. Joe Moore: Various Topics
James Thindwa: Jobs with Justice
Judge Bill Haddad & Roy Shalabi: Immigrant rights
Marissa Graciosa: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Ed Yohnka, ACLU: Data mining & privacy in the Internet Age
Kathy Kelly & Jeff Leys: VCNV walk from Springfield to Chicago
Bill Gomolinski: County Commissioner Campaign Issues
Paul Martire: What's Wrong with the IL economy?
Carl Davidson: Ruling Elites
Andy Thayer: LGBT issues
Michael McConnell: Iraq Inquest at N. U. Law School
David B. Cassel, Exec. Dir - Alliance of Logan Square Organizations
(ALSO)
Omar Maani, Mayor of Amman, Jordan
Bob Koehler: Iraq-- Tribune online
Bill Barclay & Jo Patten (AFSCME): OPAHA
Jan Mitchell-Bolling: West Suburban PADS
Dan Kenney (DeKalb Interfaith Peace): Blackwater
Kristopher Anderson: Young Democrats of America
Pat McAnany, Steve Richards: Capital Punishment
James Thindwa: Zimbabwe Forum
Kathy Kelly: MidEast Issues
AFSCME Jo Patten: West Sub. Hospital issues
Cyrus Walker: Computer forensics and information privacy
Shawn Collins - Jeff Zurawski, and Sarah Hartfield: Protesting
in DuPage
Bill Gomolinski: Judge in 4th Sub-Circuit
Amy Tauchman / Seth Arkin: Operation Turn DuPage Blue
Donna S. Bast: Teens & Computers: What's A Parent To Do?
Mike Cusick & Steve Lydon: Helping Hand, Countryside
Anya Cordell: Campaign for Collateral Compassion
Les Minkus: KidsDadsMoms
Gary Woll & Audrey Jaycox: Maywood development
Paul Dobias & Jeanne Jacobson: LaGrange Park Space
Paul Gattuso: Mayor of Westchester
Terry Davis: Jena 6
Tommy Brewer: State's Attorney Candidate
Laura Tobalowski & Kelly Ford: Women business owners
Les Minkus: Protected Tomorrows
Trisha Teater & Bishop Dimitrios: Death Penalty
Ald. Ed Smith: Candidate-Recorder of Deeds
Dr. Azher Quader: Compassionate Care Network
Susan Murphy-Milano: Domestic Violence
Michael Thompson: Executive Coaching
Scott Blakeman: Stand Up for Peace
James Thindwa: Chicago Jobs with Justice
Larry Spivack: Labor History Society
Clayton Jay Crane & Sandra Tristano: Judicial Retention Candidates
Bamshad Mobasher: Iran & the military threat
Leo Wisniewski: The Entrepreneurs Source
Dr. Frank Summers: Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Rose Ann Pastor: Career Transition Center Exec. Director
James Pastor: Anti Terrorism
Bob Saar & Jan Kralovec: Cook & DuPage Directors of Elections
Amy Tauchman & Bob Pieckert: Du Page Democrats
Jill Morgenthaler: Candidate for U.S. Congress, 6th Dist.
Sebastian Patti & Edmund Ponce de Leon: Judicial Retention
Candidates
Hon. William J. Haddad, and Hon. Michael Betar: Arab American
Heritage Month (November)
Dr. Willie Wilson & Terrell Wilson: Authors "What Shall I
Do Next?"
Michael McConnell: AFSC & the Obama Administration
Prof. Mark Rosen, Kent Law School: American Constitution
Society
Debra Shore: Metro Water Rec. Dept.
Dr. Frank Summers: Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Larry Spivack: Illinois Labor History Society
Bill Barclay & Mel Rothenberg: CPEG Jobs program
James Thindwa & Leah Fried (UE rep): Republic Windows strike
Prof. David Schweickart: "Economic Democracy" - Marxist
solutions to the econ. crisis
Professor Stephen Kinzer, Northwestern Univ.: Afghanistan
& Pakistan
Bamshad Mobasher, Bill Barclay: The New, New Deal
Dr. Azra Haque: Human Development Foundation
Frank Jemcek: Cog Hill golf course
John Harris, The Computer Coach: Computer Security
Fawad Butt, Zeus Capital: Islamic Finance
Bill Hampton: Fred Hampton Scholarship Foundation
Todd Connor: Candidate - Met Water Rec Dist
Ade Onayemi: Candidate-Cook County Bd. 1st District
Judith Dunbar-Hines: Taste of Belfast (Chgo chefs in Ireland)
Dr. Kayed Akkawi, Dean, Robt. Morris Univ, Vice Chair,
Amman-Chgo Sister Cities
Barrett Pedersen, Mayor, Franklin Park, IL
Watch Public Perspective videos online as host Kevin McDermottt interviews leading figures in Chicago and suburban politics and business.
Richard Reeder: Author
Chester Kulis: Professor
Heather Randazzo: Advocate Health Care
Lee Goodman: Stop Concealed Carry, Illinois
Dominic Pacyga, Ph. D.: Author of "Chicago, a Biography"
Susan and Steven Arvanites: Petite Opera Productions
Mariyana Spyropoulos: Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Arbdella "Della" Patterson and Kevin McDermott: Proviso 209 Board of Education Candidates
Clarence Goodman: Chicago Historian, Tour Guide and Musician
Robert Goldsborough: Author, "Archie Meets Nero Wolf"
Thomas Gary: Trustee, Triton College
John Breen and Naderh Elrabadi: Arab American Bar Association
Phil Lauricella: Living Historian
Adopt a Husky:
Beth Isaacs & Kamille Braschar: PING!
Luigi Zingales: Author, "A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity"
Jack Baldus: Owner, Blue Eyed Jack, LaGrange, IL
Cadet Baig, Cadet Brooks, and Lt. Brown: Civil Air Patrol
JoAnn Allen and Dana Posley: Chicago Regional Breast Feeding Task Force
George Bailey, Ph. D.: Author of "Haunted Exiles"
Rep. Karen Yarbrough: Illinois House of Representatives, 7th Dist and Candidate for Cook County Recorder of Deeds
Dr. Lorene Wu, M.D. Dipl. Ac.: The Whole Life Center
Susan Baushke, Steve Arvanites and Cathy Dunn-Protopapas: Petite Opera Productions
Leslie Coolidge: 6th Congressional District Candidate
Lois and Ernie Baumann: Maywood Fine Arts Association
Robert Johnston: Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago
Louise Knight: Scholar and Author
Faustin A. Pipal, Jr.: Attorney and Mediator
Alena Skeels: Peace Corps Volunteer
Tessa Simonds and Tom Alter: G8 and NATO Information
Nancy Pipal: Executive Presence and Style Consultant
Sharon Sanders and Steve Alesch: Move to Amend
Jill Bass: Mikva Challenge
Matthew Lynch and Bob Otter: Chicago Jesuit Academy
Nancy Stevenson: President, Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy
Lisa Drake, Executive Director, CASA of DuPage County: CASA of DuPage Count advocates for abused, neglected and dependent children in the courts.
Justice Joy Virginia Cunningham: Candidate for Illinois Supreme Court
Justice Joy Virgina Cunningham: Candidate for Illinois Supreme Court
Glenn Barker: ManKind Project, Part II
Glenn Barker: ManKind Project, Part I
Nichole Patton: Cook County Judicial Candidate
David Borris: Chicago Peace Action
Justin Snyder and Leilani Narciso: Opera In Focus
Cathy Protopapas and Susan Baushke: Petite Opera Productions
Shea Walters and Henry Lunn: Petite Opera, Part II
Karen Yarbrough, Illinois State Representative, 7th District: Issues important to the State and District
Det. Arthur Hannus, Ret. : Chicago Police Memorial Foundation
Yaser Tabbara: Syria Unrest
Thomas Gary: Triton College Board Member
Petite Opera Productions: Petite Opera Productions
Ed Yonhka, ACLU: Civil Unions and Privacy Rights
Sue Salach: Aging Info USA
Les Minkus, Founder: Kids Dads Moms
Pablo Boczkowski, Ph. D. Northwestern University School of Communications: Digital Media
Corie Barnes: Generation Fit Kids
William Barclay, Ph.D.: Chicago Political Economy Group
Larry Spivack: AFSCME Council 31
Prof. David Merriman: Fiscal Futures Project--University of Illinois
Chris Haddad and Ed Grossman: Chicago Legal Clinic
Eddie Anguiano and Francine Harrell: Proviso District 209 Candidates
Justice Gino DiVito (ret) and Judge William Haddad: Merit Selection of Judges in Illinois
Joseph D. Taiber: Lowrey Asset Consulting
Faisal Riaz: 10 Million Children Initiative
Joel Sheffel & Karen Yarbrough, IL Rep., 7th Dist.: Website Supplied Access News Association
Don Underwood & Andrea Urban: Babes 'n Beaus Talent & Modeling Agency
James Thindwa: Jobs with Justice
David Marzahl: Center for Economic Progress
Ralph Martire: Center for Tax & Budget Accountability
Collin Hitt: Illinois Policy Institute
Cheryle Jackson: Vice President Government Affairs, AAR CORP
Dr. Kayed Akkawi: Chicago-Amman Sister Cities Program
Todd Stroger: Former President of the Cook County Board
Terrence O'Brien: MWRD President and former Candidate for President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
Toni Preckwinkle: Candidate for President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
Dorothy Brown: Clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court and former Candidate for President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
Some of the guests who have appeared on Public Perspective:
Ms Cheryle Jackson, Vice President, Government Affairs, AAR Corp.
Rep. Karen Yarbrough: Legislative Accomplishments
Sen. Don Harmon: Healthcare, privacy, gun control, education funding
Christine Cegelis & Lindy Scott: Fair trade, O'Hare expansion, health care, minimum wage
Dave Martin & David Borris: Anti-War Majority
Bamshad Mobasher: Privacy & data mining
Ald. Joe Moore: Various Topics
James Thindwa: Jobs with Justice
Judge Bill Haddad & Roy Shalabi: Immigrant rights
Marissa Graciosa: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Ed Yohnka, ACLU: Data mining & privacy in the Internet Age
Kathy Kelly & Jeff Leys: VCNV walk from Springfield to Chicago
Bill Gomolinski: County Commissioner Campaign Issues
Paul Martire: What's Wrong with the IL economy?
Carl Davidson: Ruling Elites
Andy Thayer: LGBT issues
Michael McConnell: Iraq Inquest at N. U. Law School
David B. Cassel, Exec. Dir - Alliance of Logan Square Organizations
(ALSO)
Omar Maani, Mayor of Amman, Jordan
Bob Koehler: Iraq-- Tribune online
Bill Barclay & Jo Patten (AFSCME): OPAHA
Jan Mitchell-Bolling: West Suburban PADS
Dan Kenney (DeKalb Interfaith Peace): Blackwater
Kristopher Anderson: Young Democrats of America
Pat McAnany, Steve Richards: Capital Punishment
James Thindwa: Zimbabwe Forum
Kathy Kelly: MidEast Issues
AFSCME Jo Patten: West Sub. Hospital issues
Cyrus Walker: Computer forensics and information privacy
Shawn Collins - Jeff Zurawski, and Sarah Hartfield: Protesting
in DuPage
Bill Gomolinski: Judge in 4th Sub-Circuit
Amy Tauchman / Seth Arkin: Operation Turn DuPage Blue
Donna S. Bast: Teens & Computers: What's A Parent To Do?
Mike Cusick & Steve Lydon: Helping Hand, Countryside
Anya Cordell: Campaign for Collateral Compassion
Les Minkus: KidsDadsMoms
Gary Woll & Audrey Jaycox: Maywood development
Paul Dobias & Jeanne Jacobson: LaGrange Park Space
Paul Gattuso: Mayor of Westchester
Terry Davis: Jena 6
Tommy Brewer: State's Attorney Candidate
Laura Tobalowski & Kelly Ford: Women business owners
Les Minkus: Protected Tomorrows
Trisha Teater & Bishop Dimitrios: Death Penalty
Ald. Ed Smith: Candidate-Recorder of Deeds
Dr. Azher Quader: Compassionate Care Network
Susan Murphy-Milano: Domestic Violence
Michael Thompson: Executive Coaching
Scott Blakeman: Stand Up for Peace
James Thindwa: Chicago Jobs with Justice
Larry Spivack: Labor History Society
Clayton Jay Crane & Sandra Tristano: Judicial Retention Candidates
Bamshad Mobasher: Iran & the military threat
Leo Wisniewski: The Entrepreneurs Source
Dr. Frank Summers: Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Rose Ann Pastor: Career Transition Center Exec. Director
James Pastor: Anti Terrorism
Bob Saar & Jan Kralovec: Cook & DuPage Directors of Elections
Amy Tauchman & Bob Pieckert: Du Page Democrats
Jill Morgenthaler: Candidate for U.S. Congress, 6th Dist.
Sebastian Patti & Edmund Ponce de Leon: Judicial Retention
Candidates
Hon. William J. Haddad, and Hon. Michael Betar: Arab American
Heritage Month (November)
Dr. Willie Wilson & Terrell Wilson: Authors "What Shall I
Do Next?"
Michael McConnell: AFSC & the Obama Administration
Prof. Mark Rosen, Kent Law School: American Constitution
Society
Debra Shore: Metro Water Rec. Dept.
Dr. Frank Summers: Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Larry Spivack: Illinois Labor History Society
Bill Barclay & Mel Rothenberg: CPEG Jobs program
James Thindwa & Leah Fried (UE rep): Republic Windows strike
Prof. David Schweickart: "Economic Democracy" - Marxist
solutions to the econ. crisis
Professor Stephen Kinzer, Northwestern Univ.: Afghanistan
& Pakistan
Bamshad Mobasher, Bill Barclay: The New, New Deal
Dr. Azra Haque: Human Development Foundation
Frank Jemcek: Cog Hill golf course
John Harris, The Computer Coach: Computer Security
Fawad Butt, Zeus Capital: Islamic Finance
Bill Hampton: Fred Hampton Scholarship Foundation
Todd Connor: Candidate - Met Water Rec Dist
Ade Onayemi: Candidate-Cook County Bd. 1st District
Judith Dunbar-Hines: Taste of Belfast (Chgo chefs in Ireland)
Dr. Kayed Akkawi, Dean, Robt. Morris Univ, Vice Chair,
Amman-Chgo Sister Cities
Barrett Pedersen, Mayor, Franklin Park, IL
Public Perspective, with host Kevin McDermott, serves up lively conversation each week with
intriguing guests from a wide range of backgrounds. The half-hour show covers politics,
the economy, business, and social issues with well known public voices and with unsung heroes.
Our guests have included such notables as: the President of the Cook County Board, the Editorial
Page Editor of the Chicago Tribune, the Mayor of Amman, Jordan, and a Nobel Prize nominee as well
as social activists, elected officials, and everyday citizens who have something to say, but whom
you won't see in the mainstream media.
Kevin and his staff draw on a wealth of varied experience in business and industry, entertainment, religion, the arts, and civic organizations to ask the right questions and focus in on the most interesting answers. The Public Perspective team brings you shows full of vibrant, entertaining conversation that will make you think.