Interchange – 2009 Year in Review with Andy Mahler, Tom Healy, and Steve Higgs

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Host Andy Mahler leads our annual year-in-review session with Steve Higgs, editor and publisher of the Bloomington Alternative, and Tom Healy, publisher of Branches Magazine. Tom Healy talks about budget cuts by the Daniels administration resulting in reduced monitoring by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Steve Higgs discusses research he has been conducting regarding significant increases in autism cases nationally and in the Hoosier state. Other topics covered include CAFOs, energy, transportation (with an update on the proposed I-69 highway) and healthcare. The program concludes with a report card on the Obama Administration and a look ahead to the year 2010.