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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:06 — 5.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreVeterans’ issues advocate John Tilford served as a Marine in Vietnam and then, a few years later, joined the Army Reserve. He eventually became a key intelligence figure on Afghanistan just before the United States went to war there in 2001. Tilford’s intelligence work has included analyzing …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:53 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMaria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde can trace her roots partly to the Yoruba culture of West Africa. Born in the Caribbean to a mother who was a nurse, and a father who is an artist, she has combined both callings in her own life as she works as …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:08 — 5.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSandy Keller has been helping poor and at-risk women get good jobs since she founded My Sister’s Closet in 1998. The non-profit puts women in high-end clothing, and helps them hone their interviewing and job skills through workshops and counseling. Twenty years ago, Keller worked near the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:28 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLife magazine photographer Eugene Smith accumulated thousands of hours of audio tapes and images of some of the greatest jazz musicians of the 1950s and ‘60s. Sam Stephenson found the recordings and photos in boxes and got to work preserving and archiving them, a task that led …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:30 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRob Chatlos is a long-haul trucker, who has spent countless hours alone in his rig, formulating his opinions and goals concerning Southern Indiana and the world. He’s affiliated with neither party, and has kicked off his campaign to win Indiana’s Ninth District seat in the US Congress. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:32 — 7.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreKate Hess Pace comes from a long line of Hoosiers. Concerned about politics and the world around her — especially those in need — she left Indiana in 2010 to work as a community organizer in Minnesota. She has returned this year to help Southern Indiana people …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:42 — 8.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCaty Pilachowski is one of Indiana University’s top astronomers. She holds the Kirkwood Chair at IU, was a staff member at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, and is a past president of the American Astronomical Society. She and the rest of the astronomy department are gearing up …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:02 — 8.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWith the 2018 mid-term election 15 months away, five hopefuls already have declared their candidacy for Indiana’s Ninth District seat in Congress. Four of those candidates are Democrats, hoping to wrest the seat from first-term Republican Trey Hollingsworth. The four will jostle for the Democratic nomination during …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:19 — 7.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA man of more hats than a magician, Spyridon Stratigos, better known around town as Strats, was in on the predecessors of Bloomington’s famed vegetarian mecca, the Tao back in the late Sixties and early Seventies. He tells how he and the Uptown Cafe’s Michael Cassady created …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:16 — 8.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWFHB News Director Joe Crawford took a chance on Big Talk three years ago. The idea for a weekly regular feature on the Daily Local News spotlighting compelling people from in and around Bloomington might have been intriguing but carrying it out would be a challenge. After …