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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Claytor has served as an auditor of public activities since 1974, including being a candidate for the position of Indiana State Auditor in 2014.

The Trimedx Foundation sends volunteers around the world to install and maintain sophisticated medical equipment. It is affiliated with Trimedx, an Indianapolis company with more than 3000 associates, which has relationships with most hospitals in Indiana. The foundation will conduct about 40 medical missions this year. Our guest, Audra Plopper, is director of the foundation.

Government is changing philanthropic activities by suspending federal economic support and taking direct charge of administering programs especially of arts organizations. Our guest Gene Tempel is Founding Dean Emeritus of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a Professor of Philanthropic Studies.

Indiana University Teaching Professor, and founding member of The Society, tells us all about the many genres suitable for guitar, and about this society, which has a special event the night of April 16.

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