Civic Conversations

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:18 — 10.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn July, President and CEO Michelle Gilchrist and COO Heather Robinson of the Bloomington Health Foundation joined LWV-BMC’s Civic Conversation to discuss their role in the Bloomington community and how the foundation works to address numerous health issues in the community.  Bloomington Health Foundation started in the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:50 — 19.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, we welcomed Mary Morgan, director of housing security, with Heading Home, South Central Indiana. In the podcast, Mary and Jim discuss what housing looks like in Bloomington and Monroe County as it buttresses housing challenges in the US. Bloomington faces a shortage of single-family homes …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:03 — 12.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe welcomed Miriam Northcutt-Bohmert, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, in May.  Professor Northcutt-Bohmert shared information from her research on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in our legal system.  In the podcast, Professor Northcutt-Bohmert talked about how our jail system has become the default repository for those …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:01 — 10.0MB)Subscribe: RSSThis month our host, Jim Allison, talked to Julie Duhon and Haddie Katz, co-founders of the Tandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House, which recently opened in Bloomington. Tandem is now offering to change that position by offering birthing services, but preconception support, and prenatal and post-natal care.  It also provides …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:12 — 13.5MB)Subscribe: RSSThis month Civic Conversations welcomed Michael Lippert, a journalist with the Indiana Capital Chronicle, to discuss the 2022 American Health Rankings Report.  In the podcast, Leppert talks to our host, Jim Allison, about where Indiana stands regarding public health in the United States. Overall, Indiana ranks 35th among all …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:39 — 5.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More In February 2023, Civic Conversations Podcast welcomed Marcia Veldman, the Indiana State Co-Coordinator for the Citizen’s Climate Lobby. In the podcast, Marcia shares the origin story of Citizen’s Climate Lobby, an organization with 450 US chapters and 150 international chapters. The Citizen’s Climate Lobby strongly advocates …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:50 — 19.1MB)Subscribe: RSS Joining us for January 2023 is Dr. Laura Merrifield Wilson. Dr. Wilson is the co-director of the Gender Center and Associate Professor of History and Political Science for the University of Indianapolis. She was also recently named one of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under Forty. In this …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:52 — 17.7MB)Subscribe: RSSThis month on Civic Conversations, we are joined by Kate Cruikshank, Political Papers Specialist for the University Archives at the Herman B. Wells Library. Kate joined us to talk about the 26th Amendment. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 for all elections, state and federal. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:09 — 25.0MB)Subscribe: RSSThis month, LWV-BMC Civic Conversation Podcast host, Jim Allision, talked to Steve Hinnefeld about the impact on a community when local news sources die out. Mr. Hinnefeld has worked for over thirty years as a reporter and is a former reporter for the Herald Times.  Approximately 2500 local, state, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:46 — )Subscribe: RSS | More For October 2022, Civic Conversations welcomed Maggie Sullivan of the Friends of Lake Monroe and Michelle Cohen of the Lake Monroe Water Fund.  In the podcast, Maggie and Michelle share information about Lake Monroe, the water quality, and its impact on the Bloomington economy. Did you know …