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046 (002): Encore Presentation: Nicole Bolden, City Clerk Mar 19, 2024

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The 812 is still re-tooling post-spring break. Today's Lineup of public meetings is fresh for March 19, but please enjoy this encore presentation of our interview with City Clerk Nicole Bolden, originally recorded in January.

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045: Digest for the Week of March 5: The Economic Development Episode Mar 18, 2024

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On this digest episode, we hear excerpts from interviews all about the local economy, including:

Jane Kupersmith, director of the city's Economic and Sustainable Development department;
Jennifer Pearl, president of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation;
Mike McAfee, director of Visit Bloomington, the Monroe County Convention and Visitors' Bureau; and
Isak Asare, the newest at-large city councilmember.

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044: The 812 Overtime: Isak Asare on Rules of Order Mar 15, 2024

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This bonus mini-episode is our first extended interview, in a week when we otherwise have no programming planned. In this inaugural version of The 812 Overtime, Isak Asare, the raconteur city councilmember who stole the show last week, stuck with us for another round of conversation. In this surprisingly serious segment, we talk about the rules of order for meetings, how they came to be, how they can and have been used as tools of exclusion, and how the city might rethink its processes.

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043: The Lineup for Thursday, March 14 (Happy Pi Day!) Mar 14, 2024

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We're mostly off this week for Bloomington's spring break. Public meetings, however, are not off, so we're still filling out the Lineup to keep you up to date.
Also: Happy Pi Day! Celebrate with a local pizza (preferably a round one).

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042: The Lineup for Wednesday, March 13 Mar 13, 2024

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We're mostly off this week for Bloomington's spring break. Public meetings, however, are not off, so we're still filling out the Lineup to keep you up to date.

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041: The Lineup for Tuesday, March 12 Mar 12, 2024

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We're mostly off this week for Bloomington's spring break. Public meetings, however, are not off, so we're still filling out the Lineup to keep you up to date.

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040: The Lineup for Monday, March 11 Mar 11, 2024

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We're mostly off this week for Bloomington's spring break. Public meetings, however, are not off, so we're still filling out the Lineup to keep you up to date.

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039: Mike McAfee, Director of VisitBloomington, on Eclipses, Conventions, and Tourism Mar 08, 2024

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Our guest today is Mike McAfee, the director of VisitBloomington, otherwise known as the Monroe County Convention and Visitors Bureau. He'll talk about the CVB, how it's organized and funded, and how it promotes tourism and helps organize events.
He talks with Steve Volan about the importance of the Convention Center as a greeting card for the community and the potential economic benefits of attracting more visitors and events to the area on at off-peak weekday times if it were expanded to accommodate larger groups and events. They also talk about the April 8 eclipse, which will bring hundreds of thousands of people to the area, and preparations including safety measures, traffic management, and events to keep visitors entertained.
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After today's episode, The 812 will go into a kind of sleep mode during spring break to retool, as all schools in Bloomington, including IU, are off for the week. There will be Lineups each day, but full shows resume March 18.

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038: Isak Asare, Councilmember (At Large) Mar 07, 2024

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This one's a doozy. In our game of Pokemon Go City COuncilmember edition, we've landed one of the two most elusive creatures in the Bloomington legislature. But one of his powers is to turn the tables.
Today, the newest at-large member of the city council, Isak Asare, all but takes over the show, and the putative interviewer finds himself as often as not the interviewee. The conversation went so long The 812 has recorded its first Overtime segment. It'll be uploaded as a separate bonus episode.

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037: Jennifer Pearl, President, Bloomington Economic Development Corporation, on Generating Jobs in an Era of Climate Change Mar 06, 2024

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Economic development seems to be an emerging theme on this week's shows. Yesterday was about small business; today we'll talk about, well, bigger business. Our guest is Jennifer Pearl, the president of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation. She'll explain what that is and how it fits into the overall landscape of local economic development, especially in the era of climate change and action to mitigate it.

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