No Limits

Severe Weather Preparedness week is March 15-21. NOAA meteorologists Jason Puma and Mike Ryan will discuss why preparedness can be a matter of life or death in Indiana.

March is Music in Our Schools Month(30th anniversary), apropos for a discussion about music education in the classroom. Guests are Lane Velayo, Executive Director of the Indiana Music Education Association; Chris Woodside with the National Association for Music Education; and Rep. Melanie Wright, D - Yorktown who is a music educator and a freshman legislator at the statehouse.

State Representative Christina Hale returns to discuss what's changed and what hasn't when it comes to Indiana's alarming teen sexual assault rates.

Indianapolis Public Safety Director Troy Riggs returns to No Limits to discuss the specific goals the DPS set out in January to focus on six specific areas in Indianapolis. Riggs can also speak to how criminal code reform measures being heard right now in the General Assembly will help communities around the state.

Kids Count Data Book 2015 with in studio guestBill Stanczykiewicz, President & CEO, Indiana Youth Institute.

Right to Farm legislation. Guests: Protect the Harvest- Craig Curry, Government Relations & Public Policy Liaison Indiana; Hoosier Environmental Council - Kim Ferraro, senior staff attorney.

Status of Indiana Working Families 2015 report. Guests are Derek Thomas of the Indiana Institute for Working Families and Carol Rogers of the Business Research Center.

Trip as Marketing Tool. Butler U is reinventing collegiate marketing through innovative use of one of the country's best-known live mascots (Butler Bound acceptance letter delivery, Big Dawgs Tour). Guests are Michael Kaltenmark, BU Director of External Relations and Matt Mindrum, VP of Marketing and Communications.

An hour with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz.

Indiana author Janet Cheatham Bell as part of Black History Month. Her top two titles are "Not All Poor People Are Black and other things we need to think more about" and "Famous Black Quotations and some not so famous".

John travels to visit our friends at Lakeshore Public Media in Merrillville for a live show on the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, which has a ripple-effect across the state. Guests are Bill Hanna, President and CEO of the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority and Ty Warner, Executive Director of the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission.

Legislation currently moving through the General Assembly could potentially give Indiana adoptees from the closed records era (1941-1993) the ability to receive their original birth records. Our in-studio guest will be Melissa Shelton, board member of Hoosier for Equal Access to Records (HEAR).

Today No Limits features the new Indiana State Museum exhibit on Abraham Lincoln openingin February. Joining the show as guests are Senior VP Susannah Koerber; Exhibit Curator Dale Ogden.

Indiana is widely considered to have the nation's most extensive school choice initiative, and schoolchoiceweek.com indicates 165 events to mark the week will be held around the state. Guests: Communications Director, Tosha Salyers from the Institute for Quality Education and Robert Enlow of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.

"Mentor" film producer and Butler Visiting Professor Alix Lambert discusses her bullying film "Mentor," about the suicides of students at Mentor High School in Ohio, described by families as the result of bullying. The film is being presented free to the public at Butler's Schrott Center next week. Joining Alix will be Marilyn Leatherman, a long-time central Indiana school administrator and anti-bullying trainer.

"The Senior Medicare Patrol, or SMP, programs help Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries avoid, detect, prevent and report health care fraud. In doing so, they not only protect older persons, they also help preserve the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs", Nancy Stone, Senior Medicare Patrol Director.

A discussion of how Flu and other contagions are hitting Hoosiers hard this winter with guests Indiana State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Jerome Adams and Indiana's Chief Medical Consultant Dr.Joan Duwve.

United way of Central Indiana and how it will address the prevailing community needs in central Indiana in the new year - Early Childhood Ed (PreK) and Indiana's 2-1-1 Resource and Referral System. Guests: Andrew Cullen, Vice President of Public Policy for United Way of Central Indiana; John Barth, Vice President City-County Council.

No Limits takes a long view of the upcoming 2015 Indiana legislative session as host John Krull is joined by Lesley Weidenbener and Jacob Rund of thestatehousefile.com along with Scott Elliott, bureau chief of Chalkbeat Indiana.

"Run, Mitch, Run" - friend and confidante of Governor Mitch Daniels Don Cogman authored a book about the behind-the-scenes efforts to get Daniels to run for US President in 2012.