Erin Keever
Senior Producer, Charlotte Talks With Mike CollinsErin Keever is Senior Producer of WFAE's Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins. She joined WFAE as an intern in 2006 and has since worked as a researcher, production assistant, food blog editor, on-air announcer, and now senior producer. She's a graduate of UNC Charlotte, but before that attended UNC Greensboro where she proudly worked at her college radio station WUAG. Erin is a native Charlottean and still misses the Spaghetti Warehouse from back when SouthEnd was gritty.
Have an idea for the show? Email her at ekeever@wfae.org or follow her on Twitter: @erinkeever_
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Park Road Books' Sally Brewster joins Mike to share some book ideas to put on your 2023 reading list.
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We pick apart our mixed-up economy. It’s one with high employment yet with layoffs underway. One with rising wages but with inflation that is beginning to decline. How is all this coming together and where are we headed? A closer look.
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The case for a four-day workweek. We speak with one of the lead researchers on a project that did workplace tests that uncovered benefits for both employees and employers. But is it practical? We find out.
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A look back at the Capitol insurrection two years ago this week, at what has happened since that day and what may happen next. And we’ll hear from a photographer who was there and caught the riot moment-by-moment, photo-by-photo.
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Unlike our ancestors, we live in an age of abundance. That should make us happy. Trouble is, many of us are overindulging and that’s making us sick and unhappy. The question is why? One possible answer: a little drug in our brains called dopamine.
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All of us experience loss, and with that comes grief. Given its universality, it is sometimes difficult to understand why grief can be so devastating. Why? And can we emerge from grief stronger? We explore that.
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We meet with the heads of some key committees on Charlotte City Council to assess where we are with the major issues facing the city and where we go from here in 2023.
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For LGBTQ+ individuals, it seems like one step forward and two steps back. The topic of same-sex marriage has caused a rift in the United Methodist Church. We take a closer look.
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The conundrum of how to cover Donald Trump as he runs again for the highest office in the land. In his 2016 run, the media couldn’t stop covering him. Now that we know who he is, and what happened before, how should media treat him?
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Author and National Book Award winner Imani Perry and guest host Erik Spanberg talk about how the South became the "repository for the nation's sins."