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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…
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…
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…
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…
Does America have too many lawyers? Larry looks at the record-setting interest in law school, the ways artificial intelligence is reshaping entry-level legal work and the shortage of attorneys serving rural America. This week’s guest is Emersen Kolb, a Fishers High School and Miami University graduate preparing to enter the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She talks with Larry about…
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…
HSE students head back to class Wednesday, Aug. 5, and Superintendent Dr. Matt Kegley joins Larry Lannan to preview a school year with more moving parts than most. Kegley — heading into his first opening day as permanent superintendent after two decades in the district — covers the new bell-to-bell device law and how HSE will enforce it, written caps on screen time in the youngest grades, the…
Larry Lannan talks small business profitability with Matt Nettleton, Indianapolis sales trainer and host of the Default Profitable podcast — nearly 190 episodes of stories from local businesses that make money the old-fashioned way. Plus: NYT writer Emi Nietfeld on Gen Z's crisis of ambition, how corporate consolidation is pricing families out of bowling, and a Colorado bear that spent the night…
Larry talks with Mike Daggett, founder and executive director of Folds of Honor Indiana, about the organization’s mission to provide educational scholarships to the spouses and children of fallen or disabled military members and first responders. Mike shares how his 27-year military career led him to this work, the difference these scholarships make for Indiana families, and how the community can…
Larry Lannan talks with Connor Smith, an 18-year-old from Fishers, Indiana, who plays professional wiffle ball for the Atlanta Ballers — a team owned in part by former NFL star Julio Jones and musician Nelly. Connor shares how backyard games during COVID led to being drafted 10th overall, why wiffle ball became his "happy place" after the pressures of organized baseball, and his plans to become an…
With a rally by the group Save Heritage Indiana planned in Fishers for August 1, Mayor Scott Fadness sits down with Larry Lannan at City Hall to discuss free speech, public safety and the role of a mayor when national controversies arrive at the city's doorstep. Fadness explains why the city can't — and he believes shouldn't — shut down the event, how Fishers police are preparing to protect both…
Is Fishers a buyer's market or a seller's market? Veteran realtor Laura Turner of F.C. Tucker says it's a bit of both — and that Hamilton County is really three separate markets right now. Turner, one of the top-producing agents in the Indianapolis metro area, returns to the podcast to break down what's happening in local real estate: why higher-priced homes are flying while the $400K–$600K range…
