{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Space In-Between","title":"\"Before You Vote in Indiana: Ballot Questions, School Board Races, and How to Hold Your Representatives Accountable\"","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3879,"description":"\nFriends, this episode is a little different. With Election Day on November 3, Dinine is back at The Engine Room in Broad Ripple with something she's calling an audible voter's guide — a conversation for anyone who has ever stared at a ballot and wondered what an office actually does, what a candidate can realistically accomplish, or how a public question would change daily life. The goal isn't to tell you how to vote. It's to make the choices in front of you easier to understand, and to help all of us ask better questions — and listen better, too.\nDinine is joined by two guests. Chris Hartig is a Hoosier native who grew up right here in Broad Ripple, came up through Indianapolis Public Schools, teaches emotional intelligence and values-based leadership at Western Governors University, and was the 2024 Democratic candidate for Indiana House District 29. Devon Wellington is a Noblesville small business owner, mom of two, and the Democratic candidate for Indiana House District 29. Her career began in American Sign Language and moved into education policy at the local, state, and federal levels, including at the U.S. Department of Education.\nThe conversation opens on something that matters beyond any single election: how we keep seeing people who vote differently as our neighbors. Chris shares how losing a child reshaped his sense of purpose and pulled him toward public service, and a chance conversation with a local official that ended with both of them saying, at the same moment, \"We all want the same things.\" Devon explains why she decided to run after her calls and emails to her own representative went unanswered — and the dinner-table moment when her son told her she already does the job. She also introduces ring theory, a framework her family leaned on during her father's brain tumor diagnosis (\"comfort in, dump out\"), and makes the case that Indiana is legislating the opposite way: comforting those who need it least and dumping on those who need it most.\nFrom...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yhyIrYSsY73zG1DF6CqYxNm8fAUSC7eOlo-PL_10MkU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ4NzE5LzE3MDUz/NDE3NjgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}