Who Gets What?

Long-time, retired, Marian University professor William Doherty talks about teaching, the significance of teaching humanities, whether any person who uses Facebook is a "fool," and whether The Kavanaugh nomination will be "historic."

Answer: depends on how long he serves, and future events.

At the end, John reflects on the importance--the temporary importance--that people assign to an investment fad, to a current event, and to the risks of both investing and life.

Kurt Vonnegut Library historian, William Briscoe, gives a concise biography of the novelist while describing the library in down town Indianapolis.

In "Sound Off" at the conclusion, Morton suggests that utilizing federal funds for local infrastructure projects does not reflect true local priorities and efficiencies.

Adam Todd, Manager of The Nora Branch of The Indianapolis Public Library, talks about services, inter library loan, PLAC cards which allow persons to use libraries all over Indiana, and management challenges.

In "Sound Off" at the end, John talks about the big lies.

John and Morton interview Stan Soderstrom, Executive Director of Kiwanis International (and chair of The Heartland International Film Festival) about the history of service clubs and prescriptions for success.

At the end, John tells about his experience taking a world class violinist to school groups.

David Bride, President of the Central Indiana Chapter of the AFL-CIO (with 25,000 members) talks about right-to-work, Labor Fest (an annual labor day celebration on Georgia Street), and his six-year-old daughter who convinced Mayor Hogsett to visit her school.

In "Shout Out" at the end, Morton advocates cross training between emergency and police personnel.

This unstructured, unscripted conversation leads to a lesson in fundamental economics, hedge funds, debt (local,national,corporate) the stock market, Paul Samuelson and a share of meaningless frivolity.

Indianapolis Business Journal editor Greg Andrews talks to Morton and John about his reporting and editing career, the challenges of providing news both in print and on line, and the use and misuse of press releases.

During "Sound Off" Morton describes new GDP statistics organized, for the first time, by county.

Physical trainer Sam Woodworth discusses his profession and the related science. As author of "Foam Rolling," Sam describes the discipline, which often precedes a work out He also states that a more important element of life is the quality of posture, day in and day out.

At the end, in a new section called "Sound Off," John comments on a recent comparison between the "Mueller" Justice Department investigation and the hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy.

Long-time Indiana labor leader Chuck Deppert comments on the decline of labor unions, the status of modern union leadership, a possibility of new organizations emerging, and accomplishments of his life in the labor movement.

With twenty years experience, retired pollster Jeff Lewis comments on emerging trends both in the techniques of opinion sampling and in political changes, such as the decline in the number of persons self-identifying as Republican, the increase in Independent, and the stable trend for Democrat.

Jeff also considers commercial polling which, he feels, is used most of the time by sales executives to document their preexisting assumptions.