Dr. Janine Weins joined WNTK in March of 1991 and for more than a decade she was the sole host of Twin State Journal. She has interviewed more than two thousand guests including First Lady Barbara Bush, President Clinton, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former New Hampshire governor and now Senator Judd Gregg, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Bob Smith, Astronaut Jay Buckey, Captain Kangaroo Bob Keeshan, nationally acclaimed herbalist Happy Griffiths and Glass Blower Simon Pearce. Dr. Weins has interviewed hundreds of authors including Reeve Lindberg, Janet Evanovich. Jodie Picoult, Mary Lynn Ray, Archer Mayor, Joseph Citro, Ernest Hebert, Teresa Lust, Sy Montgomery, Nathaniel Tripp, Tom Monteleone, Marty Bash, Jeff Gold, Tommy DePola, Trina Schart Hyman, Natalie Kinsley Warnick, Rebecca Rule as well as Chef and Author Jim Dodge. Publisher and Author John Mudge, Public Radio Commentator and Author Willem Lange, Photographer and Author Richard Brown, Physician and Author William Montgomery, Magazine Editors and Author Patsy Jamieson, Magazine Publisher and Feature Writer Jay Heinrichs, and Screen Writer Bill Phillips.

In addition to hosting Twin State Journal, each Thursday morning Dr. Weins produces and hosts a report on people place and events in the upper part of the Connecticut River valley. The essays Dr. Weins prepares for her Thursday morning program can be found at Dr. Weins’ web site, www.AcornHillFarmWeather.com.

Dr. Weins grew up in Lyme, New Hampshire and graduated from Hanover High School. She is a Registered Patent Agent and has engineering degrees from The University of Michigan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to returning to the Upper Valley Dr. Weins worked for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Polaroid Corporation, Argonne National Laboratories and consulted to law firms in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Roger Allan is an award winning journalist and professor. From 1965-1993, Allan served as the News Director and Public Affairs Director for WRKO and WROR-FM in Boston, the Yankee Network, WMEX, WCOP and WSRO.

Roger was an Assistant Professort and Professor Emeritus at Curry College from 1960-1993 and was the recipient of a Doctor of Humane Letters Degree. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Associated Press and the Yankee Quill Award from the the Academy of New England Jounralists, is in the Broadcasters Hall of Fame at Northeastern University and former Chairman of United Press International, N.E> Board.