Podcasts by Larry Lannan

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Podcast by Larry Lannan

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    Fridays With Larry September 11, 2026

    The first Meijer inside the Fishers city limits opens at 6 a.m. on Sept. 30, and its store director joins this week's podcast. Janice Thongvanh, store director of the new Meijer Grocery at 15700 Southeastern Parkway, talks about the 75,000-square-foot food-focused store, filling more than 200 team member positions and 15 leadership roles, opening week giveaways, and her work on childhood hunger and food insecurity in Hamilton County — including what surprised her about need in an affluent community. The episode opens with a look at how grocery competition is changing in Central Indiana, from Walmart's reshaping of the market to Kroger's price cuts reported by Reuters in May. Also this week: Hamilton Southeastern and Fishers high schools a few weeks into Indiana's bell-to-bell phone ban, and why settling the classroom may be the easy part when YouTube is now the biggest thing on American television. Plus, robots demonstrate in Poland over AI regulation. Fridays with Larry covers Fishers and Hamilton County, Indiana. New episodes every Friday at larryinfishers.com. Sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. mycsb-in.com/larry

    Fridays With Larry September 11, 2026

  2. Sep 4

    Fridays with Larry — Supportive Housing and Mental Illness in Hamilton County (Sept. 4, 2026)

    Kelli Hoffman, co-executive director of the Noblesville nonprofit Healthy & Dwell, joins Larry Lannan to discuss what adults with serious mental illness face when they leave treatment and have nowhere stable to live. Healthy & Dwell operates a supportive housing home in Noblesville where residents pay 30% of their income toward rent and utilities and receive life-skills coaching and help navigating benefits — a model Hoffman says has kept residents employed, connected and out of acute care for three years. The organization is privately funded and is now building duplexes to expand. Larry opens with commentary on why housing insecurity and mental illness are easy to overlook in a prosperous county, and why a discharge plan is not the same thing as a safe place to sleep. Also in this episode: the first successful late-stage trial of a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine from Merck and Moderna, and a South Carolina man with more than 2,000 pairs of socks chasing a Guinness World Record. Learn more: healthyanddwell.org More local news: larryinfishers.com Sponsored by Citizens State Bank — mycsbin.com/larry. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.

    Fridays with Larry — Supportive Housing and Mental Illness in Hamilton County (Sept. 4, 2026)

  3. Aug 28

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    Fridays With Larry — August 28, 2026 No guest this week. Personal matters have taken up much of my time lately, so this edition is three commentaries from me. First, journalism and the lines I believe reporters should not cross. I studied the craft during Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, and I was certain American journalism was libertarian — publish and let the chips fall. My teachers said otherwise, and the business taught me they were right. Reporters know far more than they report. I work through a Bob Kravitz column about the online sleuth who disclosed Bills lineman Ed Oliver's family tragedy, Kravitz holding the Chuck Pagano leukemia story in 2012, Adam Schefter's Andrew Luck scoop in 2019, and a local official I declined to report on who was later exonerated. Second, Meta's settlement with 29 state attorneys general, Indiana among them, over claims Facebook and Instagram were built to hook children. Up to $17.1 billion over 10 years, about $5 billion of it contingent on TikTok and YouTube matching. Indiana's guaranteed share is $296 million and could reach $419 million — and nobody has said yet where it goes. Plus the product changes and how they line up with Hamilton Southeastern's bell-to-bell phone policy under Senate Enrolled Act 78. Third, Dolly Parton, who died this week at 80 — the songwriter, entertainer and businesswoman who never forgot where she came from. Fridays With Larry is part of the podcast lineup at LarryInFishers.com, covering city government, schools, sports and community news in Fishers and Hamilton County, Indiana. https://larryinfishers.com

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  4. Aug 21

    Flood Response Podcast August 21, 2026.output

    What does it take to respond to one of the most significant flooding events in Fishers history? In this special edition of the Larry In Fishers Podcast, host Larry Lannan is joined by Mayor Scott Fadness, Fire Chief Ky Ragsdale, and Police Chief Ed Gebhart for an inside look at the city's response to the August 2026 flooding. They discuss how emergency decisions were made, the challenges of evacuating residents, coordination with neighboring communities, and the recovery efforts that continue today. In the second half of the podcast, Fishers Police Major Mike Janes and Fishers Fire Battalion Chief Chad Abel take listeners to the front lines of the rescue operation. They explain the dangers of floodwater rescues, the specialized training required, and the teamwork that safely evacuated residents and their pets from rising water. The episode also recognizes the important support provided by the Fishers Fire Corps, whose volunteers kept first responders supplied with food, drinks and logistical assistance throughout the emergency. This is a behind-the-scenes account of how Fishers' police officers, firefighters, public works crews, city staff and volunteers came together during a historic natural disaster. The Larry In Fishers Podcast is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more at mycsb.com/larry or visit the Fishers branch inside the Thomas A. Weaver Municipal Complex. For more local news, visit LarryInFishers.com.

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  5. Aug 21

    Fridays With Larry August 21, 2026.

    Competitive esports has become a major part of high school life, with organized teams, statewide competition and millions of dollars in available college scholarships. On this episode of Fridays with Larry, Larry talks with Keaton Squires, mathematics teacher and esports coach at Hamilton Southeastern High School, about the rapid growth of esports, how the program operates, the opportunities available to students, and why the school is working to expand its gaming lab through community support. Larry also shares commentary on America's growing wave of entrepreneurship and closes the program with an unusual story involving BASE jumpers at Seattle's Space Needle. For information about supporting the Hamilton Southeastern High School esports program, contact: Keaton Squires ksquires@hse.k12.in.us Craig McCaffrey, Principal cmccaffrey@hse.k12.in.us Thank you for listening to Fridays with Larry, sponsored by Citizens State Bank.

    Fridays With Larry August 21, 2026.

  6. Aug 14

    Fridays With Larry August 14, 2026

    The picture many of us carry of poverty is an urban one. Hamilton County tells a different story. Despite being one of Indiana’s most prosperous counties, Hamilton County has 34,764 households living below the United Way’s ALICE threshold. These are often working families whose incomes simply cannot keep pace with the local cost of housing, child care, food, transportation and health care. Larry Lannan discusses this hidden suburban hardship with MaryEdith Malin, executive director of Hamilton County Kids Coats. The organization provides free winter coats and winter wear to more than 3,000 local children each year. Larry also shares commentaries on Peggy Wallace’s book and an unusual story about Mozart. Learn more about Kids Coats at https://kidscoats.org.

    Fridays With Larry August 14, 2026

  7. Aug 10

    Janet Chandler, retired after 47 years teaching at HSE High School

    After 47 years at Hamilton Southeastern High School, recently retired teacher Janet Chandler joins Larry Lannan to reflect on a career that spanned an extraordinary period of growth and change in Fishers. Chandler recalls arriving at a largely rural HSE High School with about 500 students and watching it grow to nearly 3,500. She discusses teaching French and social studies, coaching the We the People and Mock Trial teams, and helping students learn how to research difficult questions and defend their own conclusions. The conversation also explores Chandler’s years as president of the Hamilton Southeastern Education Association, changes to teacher collective bargaining in Indiana, teacher pay and retention, the value of public education, and her advice for educators entering the classroom today. This episode of the LarryInFishers.com podcast is sponsored by Citizens State Bank. Learn more about its business and personal banking options at https://www.mycsbin.com/larry. Citizens State Bank — Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender.

    Janet Chandler, retired after 47 years teaching at HSE High School

  8. Jul 31

    Fridays With Larry July 31, 2026

    Indiana's Public Access Counselor is taking nearly eight months to issue advisory opinions and siding with government agencies two-thirds of the time, according to an Indianapolis Star analysis. Host Larry Lannan traces the seven-decade history of Indiana's public access laws, then talks with Zachary Baiel, president of the Indiana Coalition for Open Government, about transparency at the local level, the 2024 law that reshaped the counselor's office, and ICOG's public access hotline: 260-ASK-ICOG (260-275-4264), indianacog.org. Plus: New York Times reporting on the global build-out of AI computing power, and the New York school district that paused its AI classroom robot. More local news at larryinfishers.com. Sponsored by Citizens State Bank, member FDIC, equal housing lender — mycsb-in.com/larry.

    Fridays With Larry July 31, 2026
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Podcast by Larry Lannan

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  • Creator
    Larry Lannan
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    504
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