The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Friday, June 12, 2015. By now everyone knows that the race between Democrat Joe Hogsett, Republican Chuck Brewer and a yet to be named Libertarian candidate is the first open election for Indianapolis Mayor in sixteen years where the incumbent isn’t running for re-election. So, with interest in the […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Thursday, June 11, 2015. (Story Starts At 24:25 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). On the Wednesday June 10 Afternoons with Amos we told the story of Nathan Gore, a longtime worker at Christ Church Cathedral Downtown. Back in 1965 he and other church members and staff were discussing how […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Wednesday, June 20, 2015. (This Story Starts At 02:51 On PODCAST Media Player) Sometimes, unfortunately, African-American accomplishments are overshadowed. It could be because of an oversight. It could be because others want to downplay the contributions Blacks have made in the history of an organization. That is the case […]
In his worst defeat since becoming Mayor nearly eight years years ago, the Indianapolis City-County Council scuttled one of Mayor Greg Ballard’s top priorities, the Justice Center and placed in serious jeopardy Mayor Ballard’s legacy project, his conversion of the city’s vehicles to electric cars. The Council voted 16 to 13 NOT to consider revisions […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Monday, June 8, 2015. (This Interview Starts At 03:38 Mark On PODCAST Media Player) She managed Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Presidential campaign in 1964 and Vice-President Al Gore’s 2000 Campaign; which many believe Gore actually won. She’s Donna Brazile, one of America’s brightest, insightful, down to earth political consultants and […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Friday, June 5, 2015. (Story Begins At 16:59 On PODCAST Media Player) Friday was the 3rd annual Ten Point Coalition’s Prayer Breakfast held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse downtown. Nearly 300 attended the event as Mayor Greg Ballard, who’s supported the Coalition fervently for eight years spoke in warm and […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Thursday, June 4, 2015. (This Story Starts At 25:33 On The PODCAST Media Player) It’s been discussed now for almost two years. From discussions and arguments over location; then the process for building it; then secrecy of the bid specifications and final bids and a huge public discussion, charged […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (This Story Begins At The 1:30 Mark On The PODCAST Media Player) On Easter Sunday afternoon, there was a confrontation between Indianapolis police and Mack Long, aged 36. Long, an ex-felon, who had been without any arrests or convictions since 2005 and free of probation […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Tuesday, June 2, 2015. (This Story Begins At 53:48 Mark On PODCAST Media Player) During the school year Afternoons with Amos has reported on the turmoil and violence at George Washington High School on the near westside of Indianapolis. Fights, brawls, fear, a school seemingly out of control. Teachers […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Monday, June 1, 2015. (Begins At 23:22 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). This week Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz announces she’s running for the Democratic nomination for Indiana Governor. Ritz joins John Gregg, the former House Speaker from Sanborn in Southern Indiana who ran and barely lost against […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Friday, May 29, 2015. The program featured announcement that the nation’s Black Law Enforcement Executive will have their convention in Indianapolis the week before Black Expo. Plus the program featured an emotion reconciliation and a lesson in Indiana Black and Overall History. And a case of justice long overdue. […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Thursday, May 28, 2015. (At The 53:45 Mark Of PODCAST Media Player). Electric cars and the City of Indianapolis haven’t had been embroiled in controversy from the start. First there was the controversy over the Blue Indy electric car sharing service, where the City wanted electric customers in the […]
