Allegheny Independent Media
This is a no fluff interview/analysis podcast/website on issues facing the Allegheny region of Pennsylvania. It includes interviews with locals and analysis of area issues. Supported by a grant from the Leveler Foundation with the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies as a fiduciary, we have no corporate sponsors.
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Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
The 3rd most read post of 2023 was on the group Mom’s for Liberty working to ban books and bully school boards in the area. A group opposing them has sprung up that is simply called STOP Mom’s for Liberty. I spoke with the head of the group Liz Mikitarian.
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
An interview with Adam Herzman of the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh on combating Antisematism in the Alleghenies.
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Amber Urish of Community Action of Blair County discusses the annual census of the homeless in Cambria and Blair Counties.
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Local Democratic organizer John Soyka on the recent elections and motivating the youth vote.
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
I spoke with Kourtney Square who is organizing the upcoming centennial of the Rosedale incident in Johnstown. On September 7, 2023, Square, her aunt Dr. Carol Francois, Banished from Johnstown author Cody McDevitt, and local photographer Jackie Gunby will hold a panel discussion on the incident at the Johnstown Area Heritage Association
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Today I spoke with Alexis Zinovenko of Pride of Somerset County on LGBTQ issues in the area. When she transitioned from male to female in 2012 there were few supports available in the area. She lost her job, family, and some friends.
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Podcamp was a social media conference in several cities including Pittsburgh. When I went to it in 2010, I was inspired to start blogging with my old blog CSI without Dead Bodies and continue with the current one. One of the speakers at the conference who inspired me was David DeAngelo of 2 Political Junkies.
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
This evening I had a good discussion of new media ventures with Rob Kall. He is the founder of OpEd News. It is an open source progressive news site where with a model similar to the original Huffington Post where volunteers contribute articles and volunteers also edit them. We discussed the need for progressive media outlets in rural areas like the Alleghenies.
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
This evening I had a nice conversation with Pitt-Johnstown Professor of History Paul Douglas Newman (no relation to that other Paul Newman) about the history of Native Americans in Pennsylvania. From around the year 1 AD to the 1400s there was a vibrant Native American civilization in the Mississippi region that extended up the Ohio to where Johnstown is today.