Podcasts by Larry Lannan

Larry Lannan talks with Anthony Wren, the Libertarian Party candidate for the Hamilton Southeastern Schools Board of Trustees in District 1.

School security is Wren's top priority. He wants weapons-detection scanners at every HSE school entrance and a dedicated school police department. He also talks about his concerns with this fall's HSE referendum and his call for a district financial audit. Other topics include classroom cell phone rules, school meals, academics and discipline, and why he chose to run as a Libertarian.

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This episode is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more about their business and personal banking options at mycsb.in/Larry, or visit the Fishers branch inside the Thomas A. Weaver Municipal Complex. Citizens State Bank, Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender.

Fishers Freight head coach and general manager Dixie Wooten joins Larry Lannan to break down a 2026 season that ended one incomplete pass short of the playoffs.

Wooten talks about the 8-8 finish and the three games Fishers lost on the final play — against Tulsa, Jacksonville and Orlando — and what he tells his players in the locker room after a loss like that. He discusses his contract extension, the hiring of defensive coordinator Rod Miller, and the offseason work of re-signing players and heading into free agency.

Also in this episode: the Indoor Football League's move to Yahoo Sports and the 6.1 million viewers the league reported this season, the four new franchises joining for 2027 in Little Rock, Athens, Savannah and Austin, on-field camera work and sideline reporters, and why the onside kick math is different in the indoor game.

This episode is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more about their business and personal banking options at mycsbin.com/larry, or stop by their Fishers branch inside the Thomas A. Weaver Municipal Complex, 9 Municipal Drive, Suite 5. Citizens State Bank, Member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.

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Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness and Deputy Mayor Elliott Hultgren sat down at City Hall the morning of Sept. 21, 2026, hours before presenting the city's 2027 budget proposal to the City Council.

The all-in proposal — operating, capital and debt service — totals about $224 million, up from the $203.6 million the council adopted for 2026.

In this conversation:

How the budget gets built, and why department heads made roughly a dozen requests for new staff while the budget funds one additional detective

Read the full story at LarryInFishers.com

This episode is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more about their business and personal banking options at mycsb-in.com/larry, or stop by their Fishers branch inside the Thomas A. Weaver Municipal Complex, 9 Municipal Drive, Suite 5. Citizens State Bank, member FDIC and an equal housing lender.

Josh Perry, HSE School Board Candidate by Larry Lannan

Cyrus Keck, a candidate for Hamilton Southeastern School Board District 2, joins Larry Lannan to discuss his priorities for HSE students, teachers and families.

The conversation covers teacher pay and retention, financial accountability, support for the operating referendum, charter school proposals and oversight of the superintendent. Keck also shares his views on college and career pathways, artificial intelligence in education and handling disagreements over school policies.

A parent of two HSE students, Keck explains why he entered the race and how his experience in board governance would inform his approach.

This episode of the LarryInFishers podcast is sponsored by Citizens State Bank.

World Alzheimer's Day is Monday, Sept. 21. This week's guest is Joe Kohler, director of operations for Griswold of North Suburban Indianapolis, which serves Fishers, Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield and the northern suburbs. Dementia accounts for about 80% of his clients, and he joins me to talk about what the disease actually looks like day to day.

We cover the early signs that go beyond ordinary forgetfulness, why that first phone call from a son or daughter is usually a request for respite, why families so often wait too long to ask for help, and what private-pay home care runs when there's no long-term care insurance. We also talk about where treatment stands — drugs like Leqembi and Kisunla can slow decline in early stages, and the FDA has cleared the first blood test to help diagnose the disease, but more than a century on there is still no cure.

The Alzheimer's Association estimates 7.4 million Americans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's dementia this year. In Indiana, more than 121,000 people have the disease and more than 221,000 friends and family members are providing unpaid care.

The episode closes with a commentary on Canada — my weeks there in the 1980s, the people of Gander who took in stranded air passengers on Sept. 11, 2001, and what we risk losing in the current trade dispute.

Fridays with Larry is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more about their business and personal banking at mycsb.in.com/larry, or stop by the Fishers branch inside the Thomas A. Weaver Municipal Complex, 9 Municipal Drive, Suite 5. Member FDIC and an equal housing lender.

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Fishers Public Health Director Monica Heltz joins Larry Lannan to break down the 2025 Fishers Community Health Assessment, released this year. Heltz explains what surprised her most in the data — including that adults 65 and older are the city's fastest-growing age group — and walks through the department's three priorities: mental health, aging well and healthy living.

The conversation covers the city's new mental health support specialist, a no-insurance-required navigation service now taking appointments; the survey finding that roughly 3 in 10 adults screened positive for possible depressive symptoms; the fall prevention program driven by EMS data; social isolation among newcomers, older adults and caregivers; the 23% of households in the two ZIP codes studied that are in poverty or struggling to meet basic needs under the ALICE measure; and racial disparities in low birth weight births. Heltz also discusses the roller coaster of state and federal public health funding and previews the Community Health Improvement Plan and a three-year strategic plan due by year's end.

This episode of the LarryInFishers.com podcast is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more at mycsb-in.com/larry or stop by the Fishers branch at the Thomas A. Weaver Municipal Complex. Member FDIC, equal housing lender.

Hamilton East Public Library is planning a third branch on Olio Road. What could it offer, and how can residents help shape it?

Library Director Melissa Loiselle and Assistant Director Molly Mrozowski join Larry Lannan to discuss the location, the goal of opening in 2028, financing plans and possibilities for indoor and outdoor spaces. They also explain why community input—including ideas from teenagers—matters as the design takes shape.

The conversation covers the library’s role in providing public internet access, concerns about potential changes to federal E-Rate support, budget pressures and how libraries balance quiet spaces with active programs.

This episode of the LarryInFishers podcast is sponsored by Citizens State Bank, member FDIC and an equal housing lender.

The first Meijer inside the Fishers city limits opens at 6 a.m. on Sept. 30, and its store director joins this week's podcast.

Janice Thongvanh, store director of the new Meijer Grocery at 15700 Southeastern Parkway, talks about the 75,000-square-foot food-focused store, filling more than 200 team member positions and 15 leadership roles, opening week giveaways, and her work on childhood hunger and food insecurity in Hamilton County — including what surprised her about need in an affluent community.

The episode opens with a look at how grocery competition is changing in Central Indiana, from Walmart's reshaping of the market to Kroger's price cuts reported by Reuters in May.

Also this week: Hamilton Southeastern and Fishers high schools a few weeks into Indiana's bell-to-bell phone ban, and why settling the classroom may be the easy part when YouTube is now the biggest thing on American television. Plus, robots demonstrate in Poland over AI regulation.

Fridays with Larry covers Fishers and Hamilton County, Indiana. New episodes every Friday at larryinfishers.com.

Sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. mycsb-in.com/larry

Kelli Hoffman, co-executive director of the Noblesville nonprofit Healthy & Dwell, joins Larry Lannan to discuss what adults with serious mental illness face when they leave treatment and have nowhere stable to live. Healthy & Dwell operates a supportive housing home in Noblesville where residents pay 30% of their income toward rent and utilities and receive life-skills coaching and help navigating benefits — a model Hoffman says has kept residents employed, connected and out of acute care for three years. The organization is privately funded and is now building duplexes to expand.

Larry opens with commentary on why housing insecurity and mental illness are easy to overlook in a prosperous county, and why a discharge plan is not the same thing as a safe place to sleep. Also in this episode: the first successful late-stage trial of a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine from Merck and Moderna, and a South Carolina man with more than 2,000 pairs of socks chasing a Guinness World Record.

Learn more: healthyanddwell.org

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