Let's Talk Clermont

Ep. 83 — Ron Grethel on Election Reform, Flock Cameras and Ohio House District 62 This week, we start with local news from around Clermont County and the region before sitting down with Ron Grethel, Libertarian candidate for Ohio House District 62, for a wide-ranging conversation about election reform, privacy, data centers, family policy, property taxes and what he believes state government shoul...

Ep. 82 — Terry Cole of Colemine Records and Plaid Room Records on Building a Record Label, Running a Record Store and Making a Life in Music This week, we start with local news from around Clermont County before sitting down with Terry Cole, founder of Colemine Records and co-owner of Plaid Room Records in Loveland, for a conversation about records, independent music, entrepreneurship and what it...

Ep. 81 — Brooke Hathaway-DeSantis of Bike Trail Books on Books, Community and the Human Side of AI This week, we start with local news from around Clermont County and the region before sitting down with Brooke Hathaway-DeSantis, owner of Bike Trail Books in Loveland, for a conversation about independent bookstores, reading, community, small business and the complicated role artificial intelligence...

Ep. 80 — Corey Kafka of Jester’s Cards and Games on Gaming, Community and Finding Your People This week, we start with a packed round of Clermont County news before sitting down with Corey Kafka, owner of Jester’s Cards and Games in Milford, for a conversation about Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer, tabletop gaming and the community that grows around local game stores. We begin at the Clermont Coun...

Ep. 79 — Debbie Davidson on Education, Rural Development and Ohio House District 63 This week, we start with news from Loveland, Milford and New Richmond before sitting down with Ohio House District 63 candidate Debbie Davidson. In Loveland, City Council moves forward with the State Route 48 and Butterworth Road sidewalk project, which is expected to connect more than 400 homes with historic downt...

  Ep. 78 — Gary Knepp on Camp Dennison and Clermont County’s Civil War History We’re back after last week’s storms and power outages with two weeks of news from across Clermont County. We start with a potentially massive advanced-manufacturing development in Williamsburg Township, where county officials have approved a tax-abatement agreement for a project that could begin with roughly one mi...

Ep. 77 — Tom Post on Art, Freelancing, Murals, AI, and the Creative Life We start this week with news from across Clermont County, including a felony vandalism case involving a Union Township license-plate reader, Loveland’s plans for the Schildmeyer riverfront property and Veterans Memorial, a major rewrite of Loveland’s zoning code, and the proposed Bishops Grove subdivision along Shephard Road....

Ep. 76 — Brian Barger on Tattooing, Artistic Integrity, Apprenticeships, and Building B-Yond INK We start this week with news from Clermont County and beyond, including the alleged misuse of law-enforcement databases and Flock license-plate readers by a Florida detective, the latest Children’s Protective Services levy proposal, Clermont County’s new property valuations, and Loveland’s continuing d...

Ep. 75 — Cynthia Tait and the Loveland Shorts Film Festival We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including more than $2.28 million in federal funding for local housing, infrastructure, and community-service projects. We also cover Tate Township’s proposed zoning rewrite, opposition to Milford’s Flock license-plate cameras, and a major renovation proposal for Grant Career Cente...

Ep. 74 — Richard Hague on Poetry, Teaching, Appalachia, Extinction, and the Life of a Poem We start this week with news from Clermont County and around Ohio, including the legal challenge surrounding Amazon’s proposed data center campus in Wilmington, Clermont County’s tentative 2026 property values, Crossroads Church’s growing Base Camp property in Washington Township, the effort to dissolve the...

Ep. 73 — Holly Brians Ragusa on Lit Cincy, Poetry, Memoir, Writing, Healing, and Cincinnati’s Literary Community  We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including the groundbreaking for a new Veterans Village, brownfield cleanup funding for New Richmond, Clermont County’s new Facade Improvement Pilot Program, safety improvements at the State Route 32 and Herold Road interse...

Ep. 72 — Jack and Samantha Graff on Paradise Brewing, Local Beer, Family Business, Homebrewing, and Building a Community Taproom We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including the 2028 Big Ten Women’s Rowing Championship coming to East Fork State Park, a Union Township rezoning proposal near Clough Pike and Ridge Point Drive, a proposed public safety levy in Union Township, Lo...

Ep. 71 — Teresa Youngstrom on Dementia Care, Memory Loss, Caregiver Stress, and A Better Approach to Memory Care We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including the former Beckjord coal plant site being listed for sale amid coal ash concerns, Clermont County’s 2027 tax budget hearing, Loveland’s zoning code rewrite, Milford Schools’ latest financial update, Bethel’s possible be...

 Ep. 70 — Brenda Woodward on Bethel’s America 250 Celebration, Small-Town Pride, Local History, and Community Life We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including the county’s five-year water and wastewater capital improvement plans, possible federal legal action over water quality concerns tied to the former Beckjord coal plant site, and Loveland’s ongoing review of its d...

Ep. 69 — Ian Schwartz on Ohio House District 62, Affordability, Public Education, and Community-Focused Campaigning We start this week with news from around Clermont County and Ohio, including the growing data center debate at the Statehouse, Governor DeWine’s pause on new data center tax exemption requests, Ohio’s latest property tax reform changes, odor complaints near the Zimmer Landfill in Was...

Ep. 68 — Father Thomas McCarthy on Catholicism, Faith, and Life as a Priest in Clermont County We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including an update on county road and bridge conditions, Milford Schools’ financial report and performance audit recommendations, Milford City Council’s vote on a proposed Management Essentials contract, Milford’s community reinvestment area upda...

Ep. 67 — Joe Loving on Mean Beard, Strongman Training, and Building Confidence Through Fitness  We start this week with news from around Clermont County, including the county’s long-range economic development strategic plan, Maddox Industrial Transformer’s Batavia expansion, Central Joint Fire-EMS service cuts after failed levies, Loveland’s mural approval and zoning code updates, West Clermo...

Ep. 66 — Deidre Hazelbaker on Loveland City Council, Local Government, and Staying Connected to Residents  We start this week with news from around Clermont County and Ohio, including a reported Bigfoot “flap” in Portage County, the Clermont County Genealogical Society’s young writers competition, Batavia’s proposed local business matching grant program, several Batavia development updates, L...

 Ep. 65 — Rick Mahan on the New Richmond Military Museum, Local Veterans, and Clermont County Primary Results  We start this week with Clermont County’s unofficial May 5 primary election results, including outcomes for local school, park, senior services, children’s services, developmental disabilities, fire and EMS, safety services, cemetery, and liquor option issues. We also look at se...

Ep. 64 — Dillon Blevins on the Ohio House District 62 Race, Property Taxes, Development, and the May Primary We start this episode with a rundown of the May 5 primary election issues appearing on Clermont County ballots, including countywide levies for the Park District, Senior Services, Children’s Protective Services, and the Board of Developmental Disabilities. We also cover local issues in Bata...

 Ep. 63 — Anne Gross and Dotty Meier on Clermont County Children’s Protective Services, Child Safety, and the May Levy We start this week with news from around Clermont County and the region, including a lawsuit over a proposed Amazon Web Services data center in Wilmington, Clermont County Public Health’s new three-year Community Health Improvement Plan, a 911/Public Safety Services update, t...

  Ep. 62 — Paul Daniels on New Richmond Schools, District Finances, and the May Levy   This special midweek episode is part of Let’s Talk Clermont’s election week coverage ahead of the May 5 primary. We get into the adjusted release schedule, preview the rest of the week’s election-focused interviews, and then we focus on New Richmond Exempted Village School District and the financial ch...

Ep. 61 — Bill DeHaas on Clermont Senior Services, Aging in Clermont County, and the May Levy We start this week with news from around Clermont County and beyond, including opposition to a proposed data center in Trenton, new chronic wasting disease cases in Indiana near the Ohio line, Clermont County Public Library’s 2026 short story winners, Habitat for Humanity homeownership opportunities in Bat...

Ep. 60 — Josh Torbeck on Clermont County Parks, Trails, and the May Levy We start this week with news from around the county including a Clermont County Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, an open seat on the Clermont County Park District Board, the return of the Loveland Farmers Market, an open council seat in Bethel, and business and community reminders out of New Richmond. Interview — Jos...

Ep. 59 — Dan Ottke on Developmental Disabilities, Local Services, and the May Levy   We start this week with some news from around the county including Mike Gardner’s guilty plea and the new Batavia Village council vacancy, the Olivewood Park development in Batavia Township, a proposed new coordinated development district to replace the old planned development framework, major redevelopment c...