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  • Mobile Integrated Health in Pike Township
    Aug 7 2025

    After a brief discussion of DNR orders (Do Not Resuscitate), we learn about the Mobile Integrated Health Service of The Pike Township fire department. Out guest is Wendy Utzig who is an Emergency Medical Technician, Registered Nurse, with advanced training in hospice and palliative care, who serves as Community Resource Paramedic. Services include fall prevention education, home safety evaluations, medication reconciliation and chronic disease support.

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    23 min
  • Indiana Towns, More Than Two Hundred, with Jeff Rasley
    Jul 31 2025

    As part of a retired/covid activity, Jeff Rasley and his wife Alicia visited, photographed, and wrote about more than 200 Indiana towns. Their reports are on his Facebook page, as well as at JeffreyRasley,com. (Kokomo, Marion, Converse, Winona Lake, Clay City, Linton, Lawerenceburg, Tell City, West Baden and Princeton are mentioned.)

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    27 min
  • How Environmental Groups Collaborate
    Jul 18 2025

    Sam Carpenter, Executive Director of The Hoosier Environmental Council, visits us again to discuss working with other groups to achieve common goals.

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    24 min
  • Our Economist: Morton Marcus
    Jul 11 2025

    What is an economist? Who was the first? What is a "just price?" Is the Finance Department different and separate from The Economics Department? Should economists provide moral leadership? Do/should economists predict? Consulting? Effects of consulting? Will people do "the right thing?"

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    26 min
  • Mirrorindy.org, A Young, Comprehensive, Free Source of Local News
    Jun 25 2025

    Ariana Beedie is Community Journalism Director of Mirror Indy, a non profit news gathering organization, readily available at Mirrorindy.org, and in easy-to-read emails every week. In this conversation we cover its history as well as philosophical issues about journalism itself.

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    25 min
  • Environmental Protection Today, with Sam Carpenter
    Jun 21 2025

    Sam Carpenter, Executive Director of The Hoosier Environmental Council, starts by describing obvious, direct, intentional withdrawal of environmental protections both nationwide and in our state. Indiana is listed in one magazine as the state with the least environmental protections. That is right. Number 50.

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    30 min
  • Our Government Today
    May 9 2025

    This conversation starts with fictional candidate Willy Stark, a favorite subject of our guest, Steve Ealy.

    Steve has written on how to read the Qur'an, the Federalist Papers and constitutional interpretation, the philosophers Jurgen Habermas, Michael Oakeshott, and Eric Voegelin, and the writers C. S. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Fyodor Deostoevsky, James Fenimore Cooper, John Steinbeck, and Robert Penn Warren. He is currently working on a book-length study of Robert Penn Warren. In other words, he is qualified to dicsuss Donald Trump in the perspective of history.

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    29 min
  • Assessing Property Values in Monroe County, Indiana
    May 2 2025

    From responding to new legislative requirements, some contained in bills over 800 pages long, to visiting homes and handling aggressive property owners, Judy Sharp has been doing it all for almost four decades.

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    33 min