The 812
The 812 is a daily show about the basic workings of city government in Bloomington, Indiana. Hosted by Steve Volan, a recently-retired five-term member of Bloomington's City Council, The 812's primary feature is a half-hour interview with elected and appointed officials in city government, as well as with members of boards, commissions and not-for-profits providing services to the city. Produced by Plateia Media.
Episodes
132 episodes
132 [S2E35]: The 812 Work Session with Marissa Meador and Jacob Spudich of the Indiana Daily Student
A new installment in our occasional series, The 812 Work Session, in which we meet members of the local media and compare notes about local news. Today's guests are Marissa Meador and Jacob Spudich, the co-editors-in-chief of the Indiana Daily ...
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Episode 132
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34:26
131 [S2E34]: In Extra Innings: A Sampler of Bonus Interviews with Guests of The 812
Today we're releasing portions of never-before-aired overtime interviews with recent guests. Anything we've recorded after the main interview for that episode we've been setting aside as "Extra Innings" segments, which can run anywhere from 7 m...
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Season 2
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Episode 131
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39:58
130 [S2E33]: The Skeptical Township: Rita Barrow, Van Buren Trustee
Van Buren Township, to the city's west-southwest, is the fourth most populous township in Monroe County (about 12,000 people as of the last census). In the first half of our interview, Township Trustee Rita Barrow (pronounced "borrow") lays out...
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Season 2
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Episode 130
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37:16
129 [S2E32]: All About the Monroe County History Center
The Monroe County History Center on 6th and Washington is a museum, a library, an event space, and then some. Not every community has such a thing -- it's not part of the Public Library, so it relies entirely on donations and grants, yet it has...
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Season 2
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Episode 129
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37:29
128 [S2E31]: Rooting out Invasive Species with Ellen Jacquart of MC-IRIS
Ellen Jacquart is the president of Monroe County Identify and Reduce Invasive Species, or MC-IRIS for short. She leads a surprisingly large group of volunteers who have made it their mission to help pull plants that shouldn't be here because th...
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Season 2
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Episode 128
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36:53
127 [S2E30]: An Exchange of Ideas with the Civic Leaders Living-Learning Center at IU
Living-learning centers at IU allow students to take classes in a specialty of their choice in the dorm where they live on-campus. The Civic Leaders Living-Learning Center takes up three floors in one tower of Briscoe Quad. Former ...
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Episode 127
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38:58
126 [S2E29]: Joani Stalcup — The Coroner's Tale
Our guest today is the Monroe County Coroner, Joani Stalcup. She tells us all about the job: how it works, what the difference is between a coroner and a medical examiner, and why coroners were ever elected in the first place. She also int...
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Season 2
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Episode 126
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36:28
125 [S2E28]: Julio Alonso and Jake Bruner of the Hoosier Hills Food Bank
On today's show, we're talk to the biggest distributor of usable food in South Central Indiana, the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. They move more than 5 million pounds of food, half from places that can no longer use or sell it, to people in need. Ju...
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Episode 125
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38:24
124 [S2E27] Lesley Davis, Chair of the Council for Community Accessibility
NOTE: There will be no episode Mon., Oct. 7. The next episode is Wed., Oct. 9.Our guest today is Lesley Davis. Until recently the assistant dean of international programs at the IU Maurer School of Law, she now is the VP for Nort...
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Episode 124
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39:32
123 [S2E26]: David Hittle on Planning the City's Built Environment
David Hittle, the city's new director of the Planning and Transportation Department, talks with Steve Volan about the documents that rule the planning process in this city: the Comprehensive Plan and the Unified Development Ordinance. We discus...
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Episode 123
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39:04
122 [S2E25]: Arts and the City -- Holly Warren, the City's Assistant Director for the Arts
Holly Warren is the assistant director for the arts in Bloomington's department of Economic and Sustainable Development. She's enthusiastic at boosting the visual and performing arts, helping artists get grants, coordinating artwork on major pr...
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Season 2
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Episode 122
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36:34
121 [S2E24] What Part of Forever Don't You Get? John Lawrence of Sycamore Land Trust
We've talked a lot on The 812 about the development of land. Today we talk about land that's undeveloped, undevelopable, or will never be developed. Our guest is the executive director of the Sycamore Land Trust, John Lawrence. He oversees the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 121
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35:26
120 [S2E23]: The Present and Future of City Housing with Anna Killion-Hansen
Today we talk housing with the new director of the city's Housing and Neighborhood Development department, Anna Killion-Hansen. The breadth of what her department does is kind of mind-boggling: it's not just inspecting rentals or working with n...
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Episode 120
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34:34
119 [S2E22]: Sara Laughlin of Teachers' Warehouse: Meeting the Unmet Needs of K-12 Students and Educators
The812 looks into a type of local government separate from city and county that it has yet to talk about: local schools as a separate branch of government. We get our first look through a nonprofit that tries to help the schools -- Teachers' Wa...
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Season 2
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Episode 119
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35:30
118 [S2E21]: Joe Van Deventer, Candidate for County Commissioner (D3)
One of the three seats on the Monroe County Board of Commissioners is contested this fall. Today, our guest is the Republican candidate, Joe Van Deventer. He's the director of street operations for the city of Bloomington's Public Works Departm...
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Season 2
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Episode 118
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35:52
117 [S2E20]: Trees and the City: Haskell Smith and George Hegeman
It's 40 years since Bloomington became a so-called Tree City. We talk about what that means with our guests: Haskell Smith, the city's Urban Forester, and George Hegeman, an inaugural member of the Bloomington Tree Commission, which has been in...
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Season 2
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Episode 117
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38:55
116 [S2E19]: Jody Madeira, Candidate for County Commissioner (D3)
Today, we talk with the first of the two candidates vying for the marquee local race this cycle: Jody Madeira, the Democratic nominee. She's an IU law professor in her first political run, up against Joe Van Deventer, the director of the city o...
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Season 2
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Episode 116
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38:48
115 [S2E18]: NPR's Eric Deggans on the Media, Journalism, and Bloomington (2 of 2)
This is the second of two episodes released today (note: we strongly recommend listening to the previous episode first), part of our conversation with NPR's Eric Deggans, an alum of the IU School of Journalism, back in Bloomington to speak at i...
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Season 2
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Episode 115
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33:59
114 [S2E17]: NPR's Eric Deggans on the Media, Journalism, and Bloomington (1 of 2)
Eric Deggans is the TV critic for National Public Radio, as well as a media analyst, and guest host. Before NPR, he was by turns a TV/media critic, music critic and reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, the Asbury Park Press, the Pittsburgh Press a...
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Episode 114
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34:44
113 [S2E16]: The Rev. Bill Breeden on War, the Death Penalty, and Protesting in Indiana
The Reverend Bill Breeden is perhaps most famous for a protest in 1987, when he stole a street sign in his nearby hometown of Odon, Indiana. It was named for John Poindexter, the admiral convicted of multiple felonies in the Iran-Contra affair ...
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Episode 113
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39:59
112 [S2E15]: Measuring Monroe with County Surveyor Trohn Enright-Randolph
Our guest today is Trohn Enright-Randolph, Monroe County Surveyor. He explains how his work is crucial to everything regarding the use and ownership of land in Monroe County -- if you don't know where the property lines are, well, it's pretty m...
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Season 2
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Episode 112
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37:26
111 [S2E14]: The Pipsqueakery: A Rescue and Sanctuary for Domestic and Wild Animals
Originally started in 2013 to rescue hamsters, The Pipsqueakery has expanded to become an animal rescue (which adopts out domesticated creatures) and sanctuary (which cares for wild creatures). Along and in consultation with Wildcare, which foc...
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Season 2
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Episode 111
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33:46
110 [S2E13] Megan Betz of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
Our guest is Megan Betz, the CEO and President of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, the Bloomington community resource center that's one element of the local emergency food sector. She lays out how, acting from the belief that food pantries won't end ...
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Season 2
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Episode 110
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38:41
109 [S2E12]: Duncan Campbell, the Eminence Grise of Historic Preservation in Bloomington
Duncan Campbell is an advisory member of the city's Historic Preservation Commission, and before that was a voting member for its first 16 years. He's also a former professor of architecture, planning and preservation at Ball State University, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 109
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37:47
108 [S2E11]: Monroe County Clerk Nicole Browne, on Managing the Documentation of Courts and Ballots
Clerk Browne's duties include providing the clerical services needed for the county court system to function, as well as administering elections in the county, whether local, state or federal. We talk about the logistics of voting in Indiana, c...
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Season 2
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Episode 108
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