Today: South Shore Clean Cities exeuctive director Carl Lisek talks about the beginnings of the nonprofit coalition that's focused on promoting sustainable transportation in northern Indiana. SSCC began 20 years ago this month, and a 20th Anniversary Celebration iis planned to take place next week. We also bring back our conversation with Sandra Albro, who was project manager of the "Vacant to Vibrant" urban re-greening project in Gary's Aetna neighborhood. And Ball State University economist

Today: Indiana Humanities staffmember Megan Telligman joins us to talk about the speakers who will be coming into northwest Indiana over the next few months, as part of the "INseparable" initiative. The speakers will help residents better understand and talk about urban, suburban and rural differences and connections. Speaking locations include the Lake County and Crown Point Community Libraries and LaPorte County Library. Union electrician Roman Bronson with the "Indiana Plan" talks about next

Today: We begin with an in-studio conversation with Carolyn Saxton of the Legacy Foundation about the organization's Endowment Building Challenge, a year-long effort to help some of the nonprofits assisted by the Foundation to build financial sustainability. Lakeshore Public Media is one of them, and a special social media campaign that ends on Friday, June 7th, at noon. More information is on the Legacy Foundation website. We also have Carole Carlson of the "Post-Tribune" and Joseph Pete with

Today: Ed Feigenbaum, the creator and editor of "Indiana Gaming Insight" newsletter published by Hannah News Service, talks about the latest gaming news in the Hoosier State, which happens to involve news from the Illinois legislature that could bring a casino license to the Chicago area. That could have a big effect on northwest Indiana's casinos. Indiana Public Broadcasting's Jeanne Lindsay has a report on the unpredictable structure of public school funding that is leading school districts to

Today: Marietta Rodriguez, the president and CEO of NeighborWorks America, joins us to talk about the results of a survey on the gap between renting and homeownership for minority families, primarily African American and Hispanic. It's much closer than the national average, and tells us how families can become successful homeowners. We also bring you another conversation from the Welcome Project at Valparaisdo University -- and State Senator Mike Bohacek (R-Michiana Shores) reviews the 2019

Today: Janet McCabe, the assistant director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, tells us about the work that I.U. students are doing this summer in Gary and Michigan City to collect information about greenhouse gas emissions. The cities are among 13 across the state involved in I.U.'s first Resilience Cohort. The data will help residents and public officials create action plans to reduce emissions and to improve air quality. The cities will get the data collected later

Wende Burbridge, Lakeshore Public Media's Vice President for Development and Tom Maloney. Vice President for Radio Operations, joined "Regionally Speaking's" Chris Nolte recently to talk about the "300 Campaign" and why it's so important. Here's the conversation.

Today: Northwest Indiana resident and insurance agent Areceli Corona and retired Army Reserve Colonel Cullen Wright talk about a recent public forum at the American Legion post in East Chicago that focused on the coordination of Veterans Affairs healthcare benefits with those benefits coming from the Medicare program. Corona says combining VA healthcare with Medicare can be confusing -- and not registering for either benefit has financial implications. We bring back our conversation with Cheryl

Today: Beth Spurgeon, the head of corporate responsibility for ArcelorMittal Americas, is on the program with more about the 2018 integrated report entitled "Innovating for Impact." This is the 10th yearin the series of reports on the steelmaking giant's corporate responsibility and sustainability initiatives. Beth outlines the challenges and committments made worldwide and in northwest Indiana. We also hear from Amari Victoria and Elisabeth Menning, the organizers, about the first Northwest

Today: For this "Reporters' Roundtable" edition, we ask "Post-Tribune" education reporter Meredith Colias-Pete, "Times" Statehouse reporter Dan Carden and "Post-Tribune" Gary city government reporter Greg Tejeda to talk about the stories they wrote and had in print and online. They included news from School City of Hammond of impending school closings and staff cuts, a new Holcomb administration staffer who is a Region native, the signing of the gaming omnibus bill into law and the latest from