David Swinford - Texas Representative, 87th District (airs 04/13/10)
When State Representative David Swinford leaves office in January 2011, he will have served in the Texas House for twenty years. Since his first session in 1991, Swinford has represented those of us in the 87^th District, that’s Potter, Moore, Carson and Sherman counties. During his tenure, he’s been chair of the State Affairs Committee and also the committee that oversees the State’s Agriculture and Livestock industry. He’s championed wind energy and border security. Swinford also introduced a bill, which ultimately failed, that would have allowed the Panhandle to succeed from the state and he’s killed more than 2 dozen bills in efforts to deny services to illegal immigrants. Many wonder about the timing of Swinford’s departure, just as the state tackles the tough job of redistricting. So before Swinford leaves office, we’ve invited him here to talk with us Face to Face.

Walt Davis - Author/Past Director of the PPHM (airs 04/20/10)
The year is 1955, a 13-year-old boy becomes fascinated with the daily reports of a Dallas Morning News columnist who is traveling the 4-thousand mile border of Texas. Now, more than 50 years later, that same boy, no longer 13, re-creates the journey in a new book titled "Exploring the Edges of Texas." We know the author as the past director of the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum. Tonight Walt Davis is here in our studio to talk Face to Face about his adventure and new book.

Jody Wilkinson, MD - Texas Tech Medical School (airs 04/27/10)
A majority of Americans are overweight -- Eight out of every ten people in this country older than 25 weigh too much. Eight out of ten. It seems like an unbelievable number. How did we, as a nation, get in this sad shape? In the last twenty years, Type II diabetes has increased 76 percent among Americans 30 to 40 years old and, for the first time in modern history, children are expected to have shorter life spans than their parents. Our guest this week, Dr. Jody Wilkinson, has been researching this epidemic since 1987, first in Dallas and now in Amarillo. And this week, we're going to find out what Dr. Wilkinson has learned and get some advice Face to Face.

Lilia Escajeda - Community Leader/Amarillo Globe News Woman of the Year (airs 05/04/10)
Our guest this week has the distinction of being named Amarillo’s Woman of the Year for 2010 by the Globe News. It’s an honor many would say Lilia Escajeda deserves after more than 30 years of civic and community involvement. The list of organizations and boards that she has served are too numerous to mention. But Escajeda will also be the first to say that, at least early on, she was asked to serve because of her ethnicity and not her experience or knowledge. And so this week we’re talking to Escajeda Face to Face about her work in Amarillo, our growing Hispanic and Latino population and why she considers herself a God Mother in the Barrio.

Annika Johansson - Broadway Performer (airs 05/11/10)
Musical theatre is clearly where our guest this week belongs. At least that’s what Annika Johannson’s local mentors say and, apparently, what Broadway producers have recently come to believe. Annika was born and raised in Amarillo and certainly loves the city. But is now performing on the national Broadway tour of Phantom of the Opera. Following her dream and the advice of her father who has said, more than once, failure is acceptable….regrets are not. So this week, we welcome home, if only for a short visit, Annika Johansson Face to Face.

Jeremy Everett - Director of the Texas Hunger Initiative (airs 05/18/10)
The economic crisis has taken a toll on the issue of hunger in America and right here in the Panhandle. In 2008, the number of adults and children in this country without enough to eat grew more than any other year since the government has been keeping record. Fifty million Americans – one child in four – are hungry. As the lines at food banks and soup kitchens grow longer, the pressure intensifies on the White House and now President Obama is pledging to end childhood hunger by 2015, calling the information I just shared here “unsettling.” That leads us to a project called the Texas Hunger Initiative and this week’s guest. Jeremy Everett is director of the project and is here to talk Face to Face about hunger in our community and how, together, we can find a solution.