The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, September 21, 2015. (Interview With DeShaun Swanson’s Family & Coaches Starts At 34:06 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Saturday evening, in the 8pm hour, at a house at 3918 Graceland in the Butler Tarkington neighborhood, a ten year old young man, DeShaun Swanson, was inside with his mother […]

The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, September 10, 2015. (Intense In-depth Interview About Tarkington Park Renovations And Fierce Community Pushback Starts At 00:55 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Representatives of the Indianapolis Parks Foundation and Indy Parks and Recreation ran into a buzz-saw of anger and opposition to plans to renovate Tarkington Park, the […]

The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, September 9, 2015. (Interview On The Tarkington Park Controversy Role Of Recreation For Black Youth Starts At 46:57 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Seventy years ago, Tarkington Park, on the city block bounded by 39th, 40th, Meridian and Illinois Streets was created to serve the Butler-Tarkington neighborhoods and […]

Ryan Vaughn, Chief of Staff to Mayor Greg Ballard expanded and amplified on mayor Ballard’s 7th State of the City Speech emphasizing the Mayor’s efforts to make Indianapolis a desirable place for people to want to live. Appearing on Afternoons with Amos’ Friday edition with Amos & Abdul, Vaughn expanded upon the themes Mayor Ballard […]

Indianapolis’ parks system is 100 years old. And new leaders of Indy Parks, the park system for the nation’s 11th largest city and the head of the private foundation that raises funds to help the city’s parks have full of new ideas on making our parks better.  Indy Parks Director John W. Williams and Indianapolis […]