The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Three Indiana Governors, two Indianapolis Mayors and a variety of Indianapolis community leaders and activists came together to put the career and life of the late Bill Crawford into perspective in a special Afternoons with Amos, Guests talked about Crawford’s life well lived, his devotion […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Monday, June 22, 2015. (Story/Interview Begins At 50:53 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Frustrated with the low numbers of Indiana low-income, first-generation and minority students, including African-American, who are not prepared for success in college, especially at Purdue, top officials at Purdue University are taking direct action. The university […]
Over the past decade, Indiana has become Ground Zero in the battles of over school reform. Â The state has allowed the creation of scores of charter schools, concentrated in the state’s three largest counties – Marion (Indianapolis), Lake and Allen. Â Indiana now has the largest school voucher program in the country with thousands of students […]
The phrase “Black Lives Matter” has been said a lot in recent months. But in Indianapolis there’s been a demonstration of the Impact that One Black Life Can Have. In a Special Broadcast, longtime friends, business partners, mentors, professional colleagues, community and civic leaders gathered for a moving, touching, humourous and melancholy tribute to a […]
Early Morning Shooting One person was shot outside of a hotel on the city’s northwest side this morning. The shooting was reported just before 6 a.m. at the Quality Inn and Suites in the 5000 block of Lafayette Road. Investigators gave few details about what may have prompted the shooting as well as the medical […]
In his eight years, Mitch Daniels has been called “brilliant”, “ruthless”, “innovative”, “insensitive,” the “best” and among the “worst” Governors in Indiana history. But you can’t say that in his two terms Gov. Mitch Daniels didn’t try to accomplish a lot, do more, create change than any Indiana Governor, democrat or Republican in decades. Gov. […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 12 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Together on the air for the first time, Afternoons with Amos brought together both Gov. Mitch Daniels and Rev. Jesse Jackson live from Indiana Black Expo. The Governor talked about the $1.2 billion state surplus and cash going to many state employees. Daniels also talked […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 30 Minutes. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Lee Ann Kwiatkowski is the Indiana Department of Education’s point person assigned to help improve Indiana’s troubled public schools. This former IPS Title I teacher and administrator will be evaluating twenty schools that the State could take over as soon as August 2011. In an […]
Audio Included in Post. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Marion County Republicans finally have a Prosecutor candidate – Mark Massa currently General Counsel for Governor Mitch Daniels. Massa appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain why he’s running.
