Ask the Mayor
A weekly program where mayors from Bloomington, Columbus, and Terre Haute answer questions about your community. We also delve into new and long-term city topics.
The show airs on WFIU on Wednesday mornings at 6:45 AM and 8:45 AM
- First Wednesday of the month: Columbus Mayor Mary Ferdon (R)
- Second Wednesday of the month: Terre Haute Mayor Brandon Sakbun (D)
- Third Wednesday of the month: Bloomington Mayor Kerry Thomson (D)
Submit a question or comment to news@indianapublicmedia.org and follow us on X: @AskTheMayor
Latest
Zoom
"This particular property is an economic development property. It was not purchased as a target for housing." - Mayor Thomson on convention center hotel
-
"Good government does not need to waste its time on party politics. We need to be governing the state or the city as the case might." - Mayor Kerry Thomson on redistricting -
"At the mayoral level, there's only so many levers you can pull as state, federal and frankly, international policies and failures really combine." - Mayor Brandon Sakbun -
"Just hoping that the federal government can get their act together and figure this out quickly or a lot of people are going to be hurt." - Ferdon on government shutdown -
"I think trust absolutely is earned, and if you have a values conflict with someone, it's always best practice to talk to that person. And there has not only been no outreach, but there's been no response." - Mayor Thomson on city council trust issues -
"Local solutions to local problems is the way to go, and we want to bring a proven strategy to folks at the higher levels of government to open that dialog." - Sakbun on safe property initiative -
"It wouldn't surprise me if from their perspective, the best thing to do is to move anybody who's homeless to a larger community. Is that the right way to deal with it, no. But I assume it happens." -Mayor Mary Ferdon -
"I have a lot of people tell me that they don't vote anymore because they don't think that who's in office makes a difference." - Thomson on canvassing neighborhoods -
"Until we're ready to have these conversations about transforming the state economy, we're just going to find more ways to cut employees and cut services." - Mayor Brandon Sakbun -
"We don't like the word gerrymandering, and so I think I'm hoping that the state legislature just chooses not to redistrict at this point in time and keeps to the schedule that we do." - Ferdon on redistricting -
"That's actually the case that's deeply concerning to me and to many others, that if in our state we cannot depend on the validity of a legal contract, what are we standing on?" - Thomson on constitutionality waiver case
