Conveniently timed with the start of the 2023 session of The Indiana General Assembly, this podcast, with former Hartford City Mayor Joseph Castelo, covers diverse issues, such as highway placement, pollution, public health, police services, trash collection, and much more.  

At the end, stay tuned for an outstanding piano duo with our guest, Tim Stephenson, a doctoral candidate in piano at Indiana University, development officer with The Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, teacher, and performing pianist.  Here we learn about composition, imagination, sweaty hands, and his March recitals in Bloomington.

After years creating new programs at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Scott Evenbeck became Founding President of Guttman College in New York City.  

In this conversation Scott describes an innovation that has increased graduation rates:  the requirement to attend "bridge" programs that acclimate new students to college life.   He also talks about Boy Scouts in Indianapolis and the joy of living in New York City.  

The Chief Financial Officer of The Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, Barry Gardner, is our guest.  Since he also served as an athletic director, we learn about supervising resources, designing a health insurance plan, and suspending a previously-approved property tax.  

Endocrinologist Hunter Heath explores both the details and the generalities of medical science.  The conversation starts with the role of calcium in many processes including the presence of kidney stones.  Then he talks about molecular medicine which, it seems, soon may provide a cure for Sickle Cell Anemia, and other diseases.  A relatively new drug from this category of research has placed Dr. Heath's colon cancer in remission, an impossibility just a few years ago.  Dr. Heath is a private pilot, an emerging guitar player, and a long-term supporter of The Fathers and Families Resource Center.  

Brian Brase does a lot:  former high school athletic director, administrator of numerous state-wide athletic competitions, caregiver, president of his neighborhood association, and  Executive Director of Indiana University's Marching Hundred Alumni Council.  

Student borrowers, remember this phone number:   317-715-9007.  This is the source of comprehensive, personal, individual advice about student loans, loans related to career choices, tuition and the net costs of seeking additional education.  We learned this from Bill Wozniak, Vice President of Marketing, INvestEd, the non profit, quasi Indiana state agency charged with managing student loans.  

Who predicted--accurately--the results of elections in November, 2022?  Believe it:  movie maker Michael Moore.  He also did it correctly in 2016.  And no one knows why or how, but everyone knows now that formal polls failed miserably.  Want to learn more.  Listen to our interview with retired pollster Jeff Lewis.  

Eclectic writer, philospher and podcaster, Anne Laker, talks about her work with The Indiana Forest Alliance, restoring a fire house, and watching movies.  (Here is a bonus:  you can read her personal diary on the web.)

Jake Oakman, Executive Director, White River State Park Development Commission, describes workings of the park, its past, its future, and even his personal experiences as Indiana University Student Body President.