Who Gets What?

Jeffrey McDermott leads what well may be the Indiana performance venue with the highest number of diverse shows every year.

Here we learn how it is done, all from a man whose "previous life" was practicing law.

While considering the nature of an "educated person," we talk with Sheila Kennedy about the voucher system, its limitation to urban areas, and how it potentially reduces quality education.

Sheila is an educator with extensive experience in government, political science, civil rights, and education.

Adam Goldstein, Director of Engineering of STAG USA, who founded and developed a 12-bay repair facility on Indianapolis' northeast side, talks about his present business: refitting fleets with propane and natural gas.

Adam says that innovation in autombile technology and style takes place in the aftermarket, and success of anything new is affirmed when included in the assembly line. This means that a service provider and repair business must provide today while always looking ahead to tomorrow.

Jordan Flores Schwartz, co-founder and Producing Director, describes the unique position, both culturally and geographically, of The Fonseca Theatre in downtown Indianapolis. One unique position is that it is led by and serves Black Indigenous People of Color.

Having traded futures contracts and other instruments since the 1970s, Gary Housman talks about portfolio insurance, hedging, crypto currencies, and the many factors affecting relative values including the recent rise of the dollar with respect to the euro.

Note: this session includes professional terms and language.

Michael Leppert's eclectic career includes opinion columnist, author, corrections department officer, utility regulator, and lobbyist to The Indiana General Assembly.

Lessons? Many. Here is one. Understand time to get things done. It will be months, and years.

(Look for Michael in The State House File.Com)

Raymond Hammond is editor of The New York Quarterly, and, of course, a poet himself.

We talk about instagram poetry, advertising in poetry magazines, snobbery, the movie "Dead Poet Society" ("It tought me how to teach poetry."), and the mailing list he would like to own (The New York Post mailing list, having people who need poetry.)

Raymond moved to Indianapolis in January. (An important previous experience was as a law enforcement office at The Statue of Liberty.)

Like Seinfeld, we talk about nothing, and everything: mafia, credit cards, Title IX, la crosse, geese, punctuality, guns, and, well, you know.

A balanced view of housing, bike paths, "Sundown Towns," driving priveleges for immigrants, taxes, even box stores, is covered effectively by this interview with Allan Kauffman, who, on leaving the mayor's office, now serves on the school board.

Transcribed personal oral history may be found at https://goshen.guide/2020/01/15/allan-kauffman-oral-history/

Chelsea Whittington, owner of C Whitt PR of Gary, Indiana, finds herself representing organizsations she knows and loves, such as a weight loss organization, Gary government and schools, Indiana University of N.W. Indiana, and, at one time, The Peace Corps. She also teaches communication skills with this admonition: "Don't Be Shy."