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Council Member Tammy Hawkins was elected to the Louisville Metro Council in 2022 and took office in 2023. She has been a business owner and resident in District 1 for more than fifteen years. In 2025, Councilwoman Hawkins was elected to serve as the Majority Caucus Chair and President Pro-Tem. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the Public Safety Committee and is a member of the Government Oversi...

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, tackles the issue of climate anxiety amongst young people, with three experts who have just released a new study about this topic (https://www.sacredheart.edu/news-room/news-listing/poll-reveals-youth-concerned-about-climate-change-social-justice/). Today’s show features professors at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut: Kirk B...

Dr. Lynn Pasquerella is, among her many and varied roles within the academic community, President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU), which put out a public statement on April 22, 2025 decrying the "unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." It was signed by over 600 college and university presidents and ch...

Semaglutide medicines for treating diabetes and obesity (like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro) have recently been observed to make mice more sedentary. Will these drugs have the same effect on humans? And how were semaglutides discovered, and what does that say about public financing of basic research? Finally, Dr. Bruce A. Scott, a Louisville physician and outgoing President of the American Medical...

Ed Harness the Louisville Kentucky Inspector General, is a graduate of Marquette University School Law. Prior to law school, he was a City of Milwaukee Police Officer. he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Management of Criminal Justice Operations from Concordia University. In 2015, Albuquerque’s Civilian Police Oversight Agency Board selected Ed Harness to be the first Executive Direc...

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, is delighted to get a chance to catch up with Dr. Luz Huntington-Moskos about environmental health and disaster preparedness in Kentucky. Luz was last on the program in 2021, when the Center was fairly new and today we'll get to hear how things have evolved since then. This program is a follow-up to our May 19th conversation with Luz's colle...

This week on Truth to Power, we tackle the issue of hate speech and incivility on the floor of the U.S. Congress. On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, Congressman Al Green held a press conference after receiving multiple requests for an interview concerning his cane and his colleague referring to him as “boy” and the LGBTQ+ community as “fairies.” Watch the full press conference and see the incredible dive...

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, praises the worms with Sam Baker, Chief Executive Officer of WriggleBrew (https://www.wrigglebrew.com/). Sam runs a sustainable startup funded by the National Science Foundation using earthworms to destroy plastic, and doing some really cool research drawing in agriculture, microbiology, and other fascinating topics. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to...

Carla Wallace is co-founder of Louisville’s Fairness campaign. Called by the late, great Anne Braden as one of the best civil rights organizers in Louisville during the 20th century, Carla has been engaged in social justice work since she was a child, joining her father in efforts to end racial segregation in Louisville’s theaters. Her work as an adult has included international human rights, affo...

Patty and Brian discuss the concept of Generational Consciousness, along with some of their own assumptions and many of its implications.

In the lead up to Juneteenth 2025, on this week's Truth to Power, we bring you a special "Beyond Buzzwords" event with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, addressing the topic of "Racism in a Culture of Niceness: How Well-Intentioned White People Perpetuate Racial Harm." This community conversation was hosted by Metro United Way at noon on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025. It was a virtual event with local in-person scree...

Listen to how three neighbors found out about a backroom plan to convert 25 acres of Joe Creason Public Park into a $65 million private tennis and pickleball complex and how, in a very short space of time, they organized a city-wide protest. Learn how they accomplished a major win for public parks in the face of prior approvals and mayoral backing.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, puts on his life jacket and grabs his paddle for a float down the Ohio River with three people who recently came ashore after 11 days of paddling from Ashland to Louisville: David Wicks, Ella Swigler, and Mary Feldkamp. The Ohio River Way sponsored the Ohio River Way Challenge again this year from May 5-15, 2025 (https://www.ohioriverway.org/ohio-river-w...

About the Louisville Family Community Clinic. A non-profit, free clinic that is registered as a Charitable Health Provider in Kentucky. Services are provided by volunteer physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other health professionals in the community. We provide medical assistance to individuals without health insurance. Our medical providers see adults and children with a variety of acut...

The White House just defunded HIV-vaccine development and climate change technologies. Then, a recent research article illustrates how a person’s gut microbiome (intestinal bacteria) is shared with family members, friends, and acquaintances. Then, hear about what stars, planets and constellations can be seen in the night sky in June. ‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs...

A continued conversation with Marty Snyder on his now published book, "The Pinball Theory of Business and Life." His experiences and knowledge as an attorney, business leader, and principal of Snyder Advisory, LLC show how life is not a "linear path" but instead, as we navigate the "bumpers" in life similar those that exist in a pinball machine, we make changes in our lives as we adapt to opportun...

This week we bring you highlights from the last hour of our live broadcast from the 12th annual How-To Festival! Forward Radio was thrilled to once again partner with the Louisville Free Public Library as the media sponsor of the How-To Festival held at the Main branch of the Public Library on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Listen in for a sampling of some of the 50 things we learned in 5 hours!! In this...

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, is delighted to be in conversation with an old friend and colleague at the University of Louisville, Henry Cunningham, who serves as the Assistant Vice-President for Engaged Scholarship in the Office of Community Engagement (https://louisville.edu/communityengagement/) Dr. Cunningham co-founded and co-directed the University’s International Service Learn...

Host K.A. Owens comments on the misplaced criticism of former President Joe Biden and his administration. K.A. Owens also comments on the state of the nation and the world. Recorded Wednesday May 21, 2025, PM.

Patty and Brian discuss some of the ways international travel can improve our thinking.

This week we bring you highlights from the third hour of our live broadcast from the 12th annual How-To Festival! Forward Radio was thrilled to once again partner with the Louisville Free Public Library as the media sponsor of the How-To Festival held at the Main branch of the Public Library on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Listen in for a sampling of some of the 50 things we learned in 5 hours!! In thi...

At its monthly Democracy in Action forum, held April 21, 2025, the Louisville League of Women Voters hosted a discussion of Louisville's serious housing shortage and what Trump's proposed budget cuts would do to an already underfunded coalition of local affordable housing agencies. The expert panel convened comprised Tony Curtis, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Housing Coalition; Andrew Owe...

Lisa Markowitz currently teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, People and their Food, Anthropology of Latin America, Globalizing Inequalities, Food Justice, and Contemporary Issues in Anthropology, at the University of Louisville. Markowitz’s research has focused on inequities in regional and global agrifood systems and popular efforts to transform them. These linked themes have informed...

There's new information about black holes and 'forever chemicals', so we thought we would reprise two popular stories from our past episodes. Hear Dr. Dirk Grupe (NKU physicist) describe black holes and then listen to 'black hole music' just released by NASA. To look for patterns in the data from space telescopes they 'sonified' it, producing haunting cosmic music. Then, we update you on a recent...

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, scrubs your aural environment of all toxins with two colleagues from the University of Louisville’s Center for Integrative Environmental Health Science (CIEHS): Cat Aiton, MSW, is the Community Resource Coordinator for the Community Engagement Core of CIEHS, and Sarah Jump is the Communications & Marketing Specialist. Learn more about the Center at https...