Host Marti Crouch talks with Jim Hart, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Hal Taylor, retired Priest and Psychologist about their work with Citizens for Effective Justice. Although the Monroe County Jail is often in the news because of negative issues, such as overcrowding or health care problems, there are some encouraging recent developments at the jail. Citizens for Effective …

Host Andy Mahler is joined in the studio by home-schooled and Bloomington-raised athlete and musician Kallim Jamal Stewart. Known to friends and family as “KJ”, nineteen-year-old Stewart is making a name for himself as a tennis player, having been ranked number one in the nation for his age group prior to enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley. He is …

Host Mylo Roze speaks with members of Bloomington Transportation Options for People (BTOP) and Oregon-based transportation consultant Greg Raisman from the Portland Department of Transportation. BTOP founder Buff Brown & BTOP member Bill Hayden start off the program and Greg jumps in a litttle later with national statistics and insights into the paradigm shift and infrastructural changes implemented in Portland …

Host Lisa-Marie Napoli interviews Jeffrey Miller, Director of the new Caldwell Center for Culture and Ecology. We discuss the life and inspiration of former Professor Emeritus Lynton Caldwell of Indiana University. His vision was about “relationships with the natural environment” and the essence of this idea is being carried through the Center via a curriculum, in collaboration with Bloomington’s Harmony …

Host Andy Mahler is joined in the studio by journalist, author, and IU journalism instructor Steve Higgs for our annual year-end review. Steve Higgs is the publisher of both the Bloomington Alternative and the electronic Indiana Environmental Report. We discuss the stories and events that have affected life in Bloomington and south-central Indiana over the past year, including the major …

Does the government’s “no-fly” list make air travel any safer? Do other supposed “security measures” really protect us from terrorists? Host Chad Carrothers spends an hour with Chris Soghoian, the Bloomington grad student who drew national attention when he set up a website that allowed visitors to print fake Northwest Airlines boarding passes in an effort to expose flaws in …

Host Andy Mahler interviews Bloomington native Anthony Arnove, co-editor of “Voices of a People’s History of the United States.” Learn about the Bloomington staging of a dramatic reading of excerpts from that project, Arnove’s new book, “Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal”, prospects for peace in the Middle East, progressive social change here at home, his path from Bloomington through Boston …

Host Mylo Roze conducts a year-in-review of the first year of existence for the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability with commission chair John Hamilton and the city’s Assistant Director of Economic Development Danise Alano. We focus on the commission’s progress so far and their primary goals for the future. Topics include economic empowerment, environmental ethics, social equity, economic development, ecological design, …

Host Andy Mahler welcomes Cook Group chairman Steve Ferguson for a conversation about the Cook Group’s $380 million casino and historic hotel renovation project in French Lick and West Baden. We also discuss his forty year friendship with Cook Group founder Bill Cook, his life in the Hoosier State, his historic homestead farm in Lawrence County and his involvement in …

Spend an hour talking politics with the local heads of the primary political parties. In the first segment News Director Chad Carrothers finds out more about Monroe County Republican Party Chairman Franklin Andrew, how he assumed party leadership, what the party does, and Republican candidates in key local races like county council, commissioner and judge. In segment two meet Lee …