The 812

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, Indiana. In our more than 200 episo

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 we've cracked the code. We welcome

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 or the B-Line Trail. Sure, a city needs t

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 Extra Innings with you yet, a

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 arts, the outdoors and other lifestyle f

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. Two guests who have been involved in art

226 [S4E20] Extra Innings: On the Public Library and the 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 guests from nonprofit entities be

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 greatly missed. This is an encore presentation of our interview w

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, segments that we call "Extra Innings".

224 [S4E17]: 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 beloved amenity, which opened in 2009, dur

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 episodes back; today, we meet their cousins at In

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 councilmember, Steve has been interviewed on this

187 [S3E34]: GIS Coordinator John Baeten, on the Mapping of Monroe County [ENCORE]

[This is an encore presentation recorded in April. We'll be back with a new episode Thursday.] John Baeten came to town as a visiting assistant professor in IU’s ge

221 [S4E15]: Melanie Vehslage and the Youth Services Bureau

Melanie Vehslage works for the Youth Services Bureau, which serves to "reduce negative childhood conditions" in Monroe County. A department of county government, the Bure

220 [S4E14]: Defending Tenants with Stacee Williams of Student Legal Services at IU

The local university enrolls 43,000 students in person but only houses 13,000 of them. The other 30,000, almost all of them tenants, live in the city of Bloomington, a ci

219 [S4E13]: Protecting Local Waters: Maggie Sullivan of the Friends of Lake Monroe

Lake Week at The 812 continues with Maggie Sullivan, the Watershed Coordinator for the Friends of Lake Monroe. It's a non-profit organization whose goal is to bring

218 [S4E12]: Lake Lemon Conservancy District Manager Adam Casey

It's Lake Week on The 812: we're talking about one of the Bloomington metropolitan area's great glories: its freshwater lakes. Reservoirs, actually. Our su

217 [S4E11]: The Community Kitchen Tackles Food Insecurity: Vicki Pierce and Kyla Cox Deckard

The Community Kitchen of Monroe County is part of the local safety net for people experiencing food insecurity. While it targets those in need, there are no eligibility r

216 [S4E10]: Elizabeth Conley of BridgeUSA at IU, on Constructive Political Dialogue

There have been cries lately for "viewpoint diversity" in academia, but for years in this college town there's been a student organization actively soliciting viewpo

215 [S4E09]: Mark Figg on the Cooling Bloomington Rental Market

When it comes to the housing market, we've had city departments, and we're working on guests who can talk about the demand side of the equation such as advisers