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231 [S4E25]: How Mission-Based Lending Can Make Bloomington Better

December 17, 2025

We’re still trying to wrap our heads around CDFIs — community development financial institutions — and this time we think […]

December 3, 2025

Bloomington has won two Gold Medals for its Parks Department. It’s not just because of nice facilities like Switchyard Park

November 21, 2025

Our Extra Innings segments feature bonus interview material that didn’t make it into our regular episodes. We haven’t shared these

November 18, 2025

Since 2015, the online magazine The Limestone Post has held a kind of middle ground among Bloomington publications, combining the

November 14, 2025

Today is another feast of Extra Innings — extensions of interviews with past guests that we’ve never made available before.

November 11, 2025

Lately we’ve been diving into our hoard of Extra Innings interviews with prior guests. Today, two new never-before-heard clips with

November 4, 2025

This week we’re exploring our archive of extra interview segments that we didn’t have room for in the original episodes,

October 31, 2025

Switchyard Park opened in 2019, during the administration of Mayor John Hamilton. It’s a stop on the B-Line Trail, another

October 28, 2025

We’ve been focusing on the tenant side of the local housing equation lately. We hosted Student Legal Services a few

October 23, 2025

There’s been a precedent for table-turning on this show, in which the guest interviews the host. (As a former city

October 21, 2025

[This is an encore presentation recorded in April. We’ll be back with a new episode Thursday.] John Baeten came to

October 16, 2025

Melanie Vehslage works for the Youth Services Bureau, which serves to “reduce negative childhood conditions” in Monroe County. A department