The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Friday, August 21, 2015. (Entire PODCAST Is About Department of Child Services Issues). Inside my office at the radio station is a box of documents the media were provided after the tragic death of Tajanay Bailey in December 2007. Tajanay was a three year old Black girl, in the […]

Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS) might have the most difficult assignment of any agency of state government.  DCS has to protect the welfare of Indiana’s children in the event of abuse and neglect.  In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, the Director of the Division of Department of Child Services, Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura […]

In an wide ranging Afternoons with Amos interview, Gov. Mike Pence, fresh from his third State of the State Speech talked about a number of topics in the speech and some others as well. The Governor reinforced his emphasis on Education in this year’s legislative session. Pence talked up his plans to increase by $1,500 […]

For thirty-one years Mary Beth Bonaventura was the well respected head of the Juvenile Court in Lake County, Indiana’s second largest county.  Her record of fairness and accomplishment won her kudos and plaudits from all sides of the political spectrum. Gov. Mike Pence appointed Judge Bonaventura to head the state’s troubled Department of Child Services […]

Democratic candidate for Governor John Gregg came out swinging on Afternoons with Amos. Gregg blasted his Republican opponent Mike Pence for ignoring the real issues facing Indiana, preferring to talk about issues that , in Gregg’s words, Hoosiers don’t care about. Gregg stressed his emphasis on jobs, improving education, including starting to deal with early […]

Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS) has been bitterly criticized in recent years. By parents, foster parents, by the states newspapers, notably the Indianapolis Star and by many in the community.  Now the Democratic candidates for Governor John Gregg and Lt. Governor Vi Simpson promise that if elected they will make major changes in DCS.  […]