Enjoy a great encore presentation of The 812. Back with a new episode on Thursday, 10/23! #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙Podcast episode 221 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guest is Melanie Vehslage, the Prevention Coordinator for the Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙Podcast episode 220 is now available at the812show.org. Stacee Williams is the director of Student Legal Services at IU Bloomington. SLS has seen and litigated it all when it comes to issues between tenants and landlords. LINK IN COMMENT. #HoosierSky #IUBloomington #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙Podcast episode 219 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Lake Week at The 812 continues with Maggie Sullivan, the Watershed Coordinator for the Friends of Lake Monroe. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙Podcast episode 218 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Today we talk about the Lake Lemon Conservancy District with its manager, Adam Casey. Lots to unpack about this beloved now-recreational site. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Get to know The 812 podcast in 30 seconds! Over 215 30-minuute interview episodes - civics with civility - are available at the812show.org and on podcast platforms. Based in Bloomington, Indiana. #BloomingtonIndiana #HoosierSky #civildiscourse #civics #localgovernment #indiana #IUBloomington

🎙Podcast episode 217 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. EPISODE LINK IN THE COMMENT. We hear from Vicki Pierce and Kyla Cox Deckard of Community Kitchen of Monroe County, Indiana. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙Podcast episode 216 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Elizabeth Conley is president of BridgeUSA at IU, supporting “a thriving US democracy ... [and] respectful, productive dialogue.”  #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana #IUBloomington

🎙Podcast episode 215 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Bloomington, IN property developer and manager, Mark Figg, on the latest data on number of units in the city, occupancy rates and how both are affecting rents. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana #Housing

🎙Podcast episode 214 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. We discuss the state of the local housing market in our college town with realtor guest Tracee Lutes, of Remax/Acclaimed Properties of Bloomington, Indiana. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 213 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guest today, Susan Hingle, chairs the Monroe County, IN Women's Commission, Susan Hingle. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

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🎙 Podcast episode 212 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. It’s another round of questions for Anna Killion-Hansen about the City of Bloomington, IN Housing & Neighborhood Development, which she directs. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana #housing

A clip from Episode 111 of The 812 podcast. Cutie 🐇 Clooney visited from The Pipsqueakery with Amy Clark and Katie Lo! Full episode linked in the comment. #bloomingtonindiana #HoosierSky #Indiana #civicspodcast

Podcast episode 211 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Caleb Hoagland and Dan Caldwell run the Bloomington (Indiana) Severe Winter Emergency Shelter (B-SWERS), and recently received a local 2025 Human Rights Award. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 210 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guest today is Danielle Benedek, co-founder of the Riley Physician’s Medical Child Abuse Clinic. For her work, the Bloomington, IN Commission on the Status of Women named Benedek the 2025 Woman of the Year.

Podcast episode 209 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guest today, Eddy Riou, is the executive director of SCCAP (“skap”), the South Central Community Action Program, which is based in Bloomington. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 208 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guests are Lisa Ridge, the Highway Dept. director, and her deputy, Toby Turner, the Highway Superintendent. #HoosierSky #HoosierTwitter #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 207 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our premiere guest of season 4 also started a local government reporting series...and he just finished high school! #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

NEW EPISODE OF THE 812 COMING THURSDAY, 8/28/25! (Here's a clip from a past episode)

Interviews are happening! Season Four of The 812 podcast is in the works. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 206 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Shelli Yoder returns to The 812, now as the Indiana Senate minority leader. She talks with us about the impact of Senate Bill 1 and other legislation. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 205 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. The mad genius behind Godzilla Weekend in Bloomington, IN, June 27-29, is a grad student specializing in “Godzilla Studies.” We talk with her about the famed movie beast. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 204 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Steve "Roc" Bonchek is founder and principal of Harmony School, a 50-year old independent school. He also talks about Rhino’s, a former all-ages center in Bloomington, IN. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 203 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Nathan Ferreira returns to the show. We discuss at cuts facing the Housing and Urban Development grants that fund so many housing authorities around the country. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

Podcast episode 202 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. We talk with Christine Herring of People and Animal Learning Services, or PALS. We hear about PALS' work, and the impact of the tornado that destroyed their barn on May 16. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 201 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Erica Penna is Monroe County’s stormwater program manager. We discuss the kinds of concerns she deals with, and the county’s current decade-long plan for stormwater #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙Podcast episode 200 🎉 now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. We talk with Erin Reynolds & Katie Hopkins of Bloomington #Indiana Comm'n on the Status of Children & Youth. To support more episodes, please visit either/or: www.patreon.com/The812?utm_c... the812show.org/shop/

In just a few hours, we're dropping the 200th 🎉 episode of The 812 podcast!! Each episode features 30 minutes of discussion with the people who work in and support local government and community in Bloomington, IN and Monroe County. Civics. With Civility. At the812show.org ✨️🥂 #Indiana ##HoosierSky

🎙 Podcast episode 199 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. City councilmember Sydney Zulich (D-6) returns to the show to talk about ongoing improvements to downtown Bloomington. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 198 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. We talk Bloomington (Indiana)Transit updates and new services galore with BT's John Connell and Shelley Strimaitis! @bloomingtontransit.bsky.social #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 197 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. We talk shop with our counterpart in the state’s other major college-dominated metropolitan area. David Sanders is a councilmember at large in West Lafayette, Indiana. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 196 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Judy Sharp, the Monroe County Indiana Assessor, has seen it all in her decades in office and is back with an update on property taxes. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 195 now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Since winning the local Democratic Party caucus in January, Feitl is the newest member of the Monroe County (IN) Council. We discuss her background and her take on the job. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 194 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guests today are Kamala Brown-Sparks, a member of the CAPS Commission since its founding, and Councilmember Isabel Piedmont-Smith, a co-creator of the commission. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 193 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Miah Michaelsen is the Executive Director of the Indiana Arts Commission. We talk about the intersection of government and the arts and hear about what she's learned. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 192 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. We speak with Amy Oelsner, the founder of Girls Rock Bloomington. She's also a musical artist known as Amy O, and recipient of a recent Bloomington Emerging Leader Award! #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 191 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Redbud Books is a one-room and community center. We speak with two of its founders about their effort to build community in a time when that goal seems to be receding. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 190 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. For 50 years, CATS has offered televised access to public meetings and to the means of tv production in Bloomington, IN. Our guest today is CATS Manager, Martin O’Neill. #HoosierSky #Indiana #BloomingtonIndiana

🎙 Podcast episode 189 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Our guest, Tom Figolah, is the City on Bloomington, IN's, Department’s Fire Prevention Officer. We discuss “community risk reduction” and more. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

🎙 Podcast episode 188 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Today’s show is a considers Bloomington’s arts economy. Our guests (and city Arts Commission grant recipients) Tristra Newyear and Matt Rice founded MDWST FABLE. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

🎙 Podcast episode 187 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. John Baeten is the Geographic Information Systems Coordinator for Monroe County, Indiana. You didn't know mapping could be this interesting. Tune in! #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

🎙 Podcast episode 186 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Bloomington has two international sister cities, but also an American Sibling City: Palo Alto, CA! Vicki Veenker is Vice Mayor there, AND founder of the Sibling Cities USA program. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

🎙 Podcast episode 185 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Scott Oldham is in his 19th year on the five-member Town Council, and currently serves as president. He talks about past, current and future issues in Ellettsville, IN. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

🎙 Podcast episode 184 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. Today is a Work Session with Michael Glab, a former reporter for the Chicago Reader. Now, in Bloomington, he hosts Big Talk on WFHB, and blogs at The Electron Pencil. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

Our Episode 183 includes an update on the draft plan for Monroe County, IN vote centers, and related meetings. Listen at the812show.org

Podcast episode 183 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. The 812 welcome representatives from the Bloomington, IN, Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs. Our guests are Marlo Libel and Ximena Martinez. #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

Podcast episode 181 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. The 16th annual Trashion Refashion Runway Show, presented by Plato’s Closet, happens at the BCT on April 13. We talk about how the event works with Devta Kidd and Stephen Hale! #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

Thanks to Chad Carrothers and his class at the IU Media School for the opportunity to talk about The 812 podcast for Activate! and WFHB! wfhb.org/news-public-... #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington

Podcast episode 181 is now available at the812show.org or on any podcast platform. The Taste of Bloomington is back! It’s moving to East Kirkwood Avenue, and from June to August. And for the first time, admission will be free. We heard it all from Jordan Davis! #HoosierSky #Indiana #Bloomington