Podcasts by Larry Lannan

College, career certification—or both? This edition of Fridays With Larry explores how students and families can think through the choices after high school. I’m joined by Katie Reigelsperger, CEO and founder of KLR Medical Certification Training School. She shares her experience returning to school as a young mother and explains how that journey shapes her work with students today. We discuss hea...

This week on Fridays With Larry, I turn to two longtime interests: movies and baseball. I discuss the movie business, the future of the theater experience and the Heartland Film Festival. Then I revisit Adam Aasen’s 2017 interview with Rob Reiner from our former podcast, Hamilton County Goes to the Movies. Their conversation covers LBJ, comedy and The Princess Bride. I close with memories of follo...

Ferras Abdalla joins Larry Lannan for a conversation about his candidacy for Hamilton Southeastern School Board in District 2. An HSE parent with a background in property management and working with boards, Abdalla discusses why he is running, his support for the HSE referendum and what he has learned from voters concerned about its cost. Topics include teacher compensation and working conditions,...

Why is Hamilton Southeastern Schools asking voters to replace the referendum approved in 2023, and what would the proposal mean for homeowners and classrooms? Larry Lannan talks with Laura Cole, chair of Advance HSE, the political action committee advocating passage; HSE Superintendent Dr. Matt Kegley; and Assistant Superintendent for Finance Tim Brown about the referendum on the November 3, 2026,...

Larry Lannan talks with David Turk, Republican candidate for Hamilton Southeastern School Board District 3. Turk, a Fishers parent and real estate developer, discusses his family’s experience with HSE special education, his support for the school referendum, teacher pay and retention, declining elementary enrollment, student mental health and why he chose to run with a party label. Election Day is...

Fishers is getting older. Larry Lannan looks at the city’s growing senior population and its effect on Hamilton Southeastern Schools. He then talks with Sheryl Hamer of Life by Design Estate & Elder Law about estate planning, Medicaid and long-term care, power of attorney, guardianship, and how to start difficult conversations with aging parents. Larry also offers commentary on artificial intellig...

Former Hamilton Southeastern Schools board president Michelle Fulhart talks with Larry Lannan about her run for the HSE School Board in District 3. Topics include board division and partisanship, leading the board during COVID-19, the 2026 HSE operating referendum, keeping teachers, student mental health, and working with Superintendent Dr. Matt Kegley. Part of the LarryInFishers.com series of HSE...

Larry Lannan looks at the roughly 39 Flock license plate reader cameras used by Fishers police. He covers how they help solve crimes and what the recent IMPD misuse charges show about the need for safeguards. Guest Walker Lasbury of Eyes Off Indiana explains his group's push for statewide limits, including a seven-day retention cap, a ban on selling the data and audit requirements. Larry also brea...

Greg Wright, the Republican candidate for District 1 on the Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) School Board, talks with Larry Lannan about why he's running, why he chose a party label in the first partisan HSE board election, his support for the school funding referendum, cash reserves, teacher retention and morale, declining enrollment, and what he sees as the board's oversight role. Wright is a Fishers...

The White River set a record crest in Noblesville and pushed more than 160 Hamilton County families out of their homes. The water is gone, but the mental health toll is often just beginning. Larry Lannan talks with Michael Ross, former Indiana state director of disaster mental health and an Indiana University Bloomington faculty member, about what flood survivors face, the warning signs to watch f...

Faiza Maqsood, a candidate for Hamilton Southeastern School Board in District 1, joins Larry Lannan for the LarryInFishers podcast’s school board candidate interview series. Maqsood discusses why she is running, her family’s experience with HSE Schools and her background in nonprofit financial management. Topics include her support for the operating referendum, district spending, teacher retention...

Larry Lannan talks with Anthony Wren, the Libertarian Party candidate for the Hamilton Southeastern Schools Board of Trustees in District 1. School security is Wren's top priority. He wants weapons-detection scanners at every HSE school entrance and a dedicated school police department. He also talks about his concerns with this fall's HSE referendum and his call for a district financial audit. Ot...

Fishers Freight head coach and general manager Dixie Wooten joins Larry Lannan to break down a 2026 season that ended one incomplete pass short of the playoffs. Wooten talks about the 8-8 finish and the three games Fishers lost on the final play — against Tulsa, Jacksonville and Orlando — and what he tells his players in the locker room after a loss like that. He discusses his contract extension,...

Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness and Deputy Mayor Elliott Hultgren sat down at City Hall the morning of Sept. 21, 2026, hours before presenting the city's 2027 budget proposal to the City Council. The all-in proposal — operating, capital and debt service — totals about $224 million, up from the $203.6 million the council adopted for 2026. In this conversation: How the budget gets built, and why departm...

Josh Perry, HSE School Board Candidate by Larry Lannan

Cyrus Keck, a candidate for Hamilton Southeastern School Board District 2, joins Larry Lannan to discuss his priorities for HSE students, teachers and families. The conversation covers teacher pay and retention, financial accountability, support for the operating referendum, charter school proposals and oversight of the superintendent. Keck also shares his views on college and career pathways, art...

World Alzheimer's Day is Monday, Sept. 21. This week's guest is Joe Kohler, director of operations for Griswold of North Suburban Indianapolis, which serves Fishers, Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield and the northern suburbs. Dementia accounts for about 80% of his clients, and he joins me to talk about what the disease actually looks like day to day. We cover the early signs that go beyond ordinary f...

Fishers Public Health Director Monica Heltz joins Larry Lannan to break down the 2025 Fishers Community Health Assessment, released this year. Heltz explains what surprised her most in the data — including that adults 65 and older are the city's fastest-growing age group — and walks through the department's three priorities: mental health, aging well and healthy living. The conversation covers the...

Hamilton East Public Library is planning a third branch on Olio Road. What could it offer, and how can residents help shape it? Library Director Melissa Loiselle and Assistant Director Molly Mrozowski join Larry Lannan to discuss the location, the goal of opening in 2028, financing plans and possibilities for indoor and outdoor spaces. They also explain why community input—including ideas from tee...

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 an...

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 navigatin...

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...

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 evacua...

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 avail...

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 L...