232 [S4E26]: Time for a Break
If you’ve just stumbled across The 812 Show, welcome! It’s a snapshot of the establishment in Bloomington and Monroe County, […]
231 [S4E25]: How Mission-Based Lending Can Make Bloomington Better
We’re still trying to wrap our heads around CDFIs — community development financial institutions — and this time we think
230 [S4E24]: Leslie Brinson, Recreation Division DIrector, City Parks
Bloomington has won two Gold Medals for its Parks Department. It’s not just because of nice facilities like Switchyard Park
229 [S4E23] Extra Innings: More On Buses and Recycling
Our Extra Innings segments feature bonus interview material that didn’t make it into our regular episodes. We haven’t shared these
228 [S4E22]: Dason Anderson, Executive Editor, The Limestone Post
Since 2015, the online magazine The Limestone Post has held a kind of middle ground among Bloomington publications, combining the
227 [S4E21] Extra Innings: On Public Arts Buildings in Bloomington
Today is another feast of Extra Innings — extensions of interviews with past guests that we’ve never made available before.
226 [S4E20] Extra Innings: On Monroe County’s Public Library, and its History Center
Lately we’ve been diving into our hoard of Extra Innings interviews with prior guests. Today, two new never-before-heard clips with
009 [S1E09]: Charlotte Zietlow, the City’s First Female Council President [ENCORE]
[Charlotte Zietlow passed away Wednesday at the age of 91. She was a pillar of the community who will be
225 [S4E19] Extra Innings: David Hittle on Transportation; Megan Betz on Food Insecurity
This week we’re exploring our archive of extra interview segments that we didn’t have room for in the original episodes,
224 [S4E18]: The Origin of the B-Line Trail and Switchyard Park, with Randy Lloyd, the City’s First Economic Development Director
Switchyard Park opened in 2019, during the administration of Mayor John Hamilton. It’s a stop on the B-Line Trail, another
223 [S4E17]: Attorney Nick Minaudo with Indiana Legal Services
We’ve been focusing on the tenant side of the local housing equation lately. We hosted Student Legal Services a few
222 [S4E16]: About the New City Transportation Commission: Shefar Rafiul Turns the Tables on Steve Volan
There’s been a precedent for table-turning on this show, in which the guest interviews the host. (As a former city
