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 […]
Indianapolis’ mainstream media have pointedly ignored covering the 2015 Mayoral Primary here in Indianapolis. But not Afternoons with Amos. On a special Afternoons with Amos, just two weeks before the May 5th primary, a long time community activist, Larry Vaughn, with strong views on how Indianapolis should be governed appeared in his second appearance on […]
In a stunning development Joe Hogsett is announced his resignation as US Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Immediately speculation feverishly developed among Democrats and the media as to whether Hogsett, a former Indiana Secretary of State, would formally enter the Democratic primary in next year’s race for Mayor of Indianapolis/Marion County. Fueling that […]
AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS – YOUR LIFE MATTERS WEEK. US Senator Joe Donnelly kicked off Afternoons with Amos YOUR LIFE MATTERS WEEK a series of broadcasts, focusing from a variety of perspectives, on the issue of the increased violence in Indianapolis and how and what can the community do to reduce and stop it and […]
The opening month of 2014 and the first few days of February have been uncharacteristically violent ones in Indianapolis. As of February 4 there have been 20 homicides (criminal and otherwise) in Indianapolis. That’s five more than the same period last year. Recent crimes have included brazen daytime robberies, a carjacking with a baby still […]
Last Saturday (Feb 1st), a 13 year old boy attending a birthday part in a house in a relatively crime free Indianapolis neighborhood, just northwest of 38th and Kessler Blvd, was gravelly wounded in a another random act of violence in Indianapolis. An estimated 100 young people were attending this party in a neighborhood of […]
So far in the new year 2014, homicides in Indianapolis are running ahead of the same period in 2013. As of January 24th there were 12 homicides so far in Indianapolis/Marion County for 2014. At this same date in 2013, there were 11. So we’re slightly ahead of the 2013 record pace. Recently on Afternoons […]