Coffee with the Candidate
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingConversations with those who are running for the Loveland, Ohio City Council or the Loveland City School District school board. Journalist Joe Wessels talks with each candidate to learn more about them ahead of Election Day 2021.
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ANALYSIS: Hart, Oury and Phelps: Loveland City Council “No Shows” Edition
October 26, 2021 22:52 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBPublished October 26, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — There are three candidates for Loveland City Council who chose not participate in the Coffee with the Candidate podcast, so we decided to invite a local political watcher to help analyze what's going on with their campaigns. Incumbents Neal Oury and Ted Phelps never responded to multiple requests to be on the podcast. Newcomer John Hart, a Loveland Intermediate School vice principal and longtime math teacher and coach in the Loveland City Scho...
Coffee with Elizabeth Mason: Loveland school board candidate, financial specialist
October 25, 2021 02:24 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Elizabeth Mason wants to be on the school board to get things back on track. Mason met with Loveland Local News Publisher Joe Wessels at the Loveland branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County to discuss why she is running, why she chose to run with Al Juram and Colette Boyko on a slate, and how she hopes to bring back some old-fashioned values to Loveland schools - including getting student and teachers away from depending on ...
Coffee with Kim Lukens: Loveland City Council candidate, counselor
October 25, 2021 02:05 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Kim Lukens would make a few changes if she were elected to the Loveland City Council. The first-time candidate and counselor told Loveland Local News she sees problems in the city and wants to be on City Council to make things right. One of her big issues? Development in the city, a topic many on social media in and around Loveland are talking about. She sat down with Loveland Local News Publisher Joe Wessels in the amphitheater at Nisbet Park ...
Coffee with Eileen Washburn: school board incumbent, teacher
October 25, 2021 01:36 - 28 minutes - 39 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Eileen Washburn has education in her blood. The incumbent Loveland City School Board member, vying for her second term, is also a teacher in the Lakota school system. Loveland Local News publisher, Joe Wessels, talks to Washburn about her passion for making the Loveland schools the best schools around and how things have gone in recent years - in the wake of two recent school levy failures and a global pandemic - and where she'd like to take th...
Coffee with Kip Ping: Loveland City Council candidate, engineer
October 25, 2021 00:22 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Kip Ping is making his first attempt at becoming a Loveland City Council member. Ping says being on City Council is about being responsive to the citizens and he sits down with Loveland Local News Publisher Joe Wessels to discuss how he'd do that. The structural engineer has done his homework and believes he is ready to take on this role. He will get into exactly how he will do that, including topics about the planned parking garage and the paid...
Coffee with Elliot Grossman: school board candidate, education communications consultant
October 24, 2021 23:58 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Elliot Grossman touts his communications and community engagement work with local school districts when he talks about why he should be elected to the Loveland school board. The former newspaperman who came to Cincinnati to work at The Enquirer as an assistant local news editor has found work in his post-media life sending schools better talk to their constituents. He believes working with schools has given him a unique perspective that will hel...
Coffee with Al Juram: Loveland school board candidate, business leader
October 24, 2021 22:25 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Al Juram has touched countless lives in and around Loveland as an active coach and board member of various sports leagues. Now the business leader wants to take his know-how and apply it and his love for working with area children to being a school board member. Juram sat down with Loveland Local News publisher, Joe Wessels, to discuss what his vision is for the Loveland City School District is going forward, especially in light of recent distri...
Coffee with Jonathan Eilert: Loveland school board candidate, pastor
October 24, 2021 22:12 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Jonathan Eilert is a pastor with a passion - and he wants to take that to the Loveland school board. Eilert leads the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church at the corner of West Loveland Avenue and South Lebanon Road which has about 1,200 members. Even with that big responsibility, Eilert said he has considered running for the school board for at least a decade. He sits down in his church offices with Loveland Local News Publisher Joe Wessels to discu...
Coffee with Colette Boyko: Loveland school board candidate, software company associate
October 24, 2021 21:54 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Colette Boyko says the best part of running for the school board has been getting to know so many people in the community. The candidate for the Loveland City School District school board thinks her listening skills will be her key to success as a school board member - something she feels has been lacking in recent years as it relates to school board members. Watching two school levies fail in recent years prompted her desire to be on the board ...
Coffee with Tim Butler: Loveland City Councilman, attorney…spinning instructor?
October 24, 2021 20:56 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Tim Butler is wrapping up his first term on Loveland City Council in a very different place from where he started. Having run with three other Council members last time, one, Vice Mayor Rob Weisgerber, isn't running after nearly 30 years on Council, and two other incumbents decided they'd rather run without him and picked two new people to form a slate. The issue? It appears disagreeing with his fellow Council members - who tended to vote in l...
Coffee with Eric Schwetschenau: appointed Loveland school board and candidate Nov. 2
October 24, 2021 20:34 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Eric Schwetshenau never exactly envisioned a turn toward the political, but that's where he found himself in 2020 when a long-time school board member resigned. Schwetshenau, pronounced "Shhh-wet-shuh-now," who is a successful otolaryngologic surgeon (that's ear, nose, and throat doctor to the rest of us), was asked to apply for his seat on the Loveland school board during a period when his seat and another seat, formerly occupied by Ned Portune...
Coffee with Anna Bunker: Loveland school board candidate
October 24, 2021 18:28 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBPublished October 24, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — Anna Bunker is a mom and an active member of the Loveland community - including opposing the last two school levies in a big way. Now she's running to be a part of the school board she once opposed. Bunker sat down with Loveland Local News Publisher Joe Wessels to discuss her Loveland City School District School Board candidacy and her founding the Loveland Voice, a political action committee that worked - and some say succeeded - to defeat the ...
Coffee with incumbent Kevin Dougherty, Loveland school board candidate
September 26, 2021 17:07 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBPublished September 26, 2021. LOVELAND, Ohio — There's one person on the ballot this fall who isn't really too worried about how many votes he will need. And he's a guest on the inaugural "Coffee with the Candidate" podcast. Kevin Dougherty, an appointed incumbent Loveland City School District school board member, was sworn in May 2020. He took the seat of longtime school board member and former school board president Art Jarvis. Jarvis resigned in the wake of a second school levy failure ...
PODCAST: “Coffee with the Candidate” interviews those seeking office in Loveland
September 20, 2021 06:27 - 1 minute - 2.12 MBLOVELAND, Ohio — Loveland Local News brings you “Coffee with the Candidate,” a conversation with Editor Joe Wessels, focusing on the candidacy of 16 different people running to either be on the Loveland City Council or the Loveland City School District school board. We sit down with those who want to lead our community and ask them the tough questions about their candidacy - and what they would do if they were elected. We also get to know each person on an individual level. Subscribe today ...
Welcome to Loveland, Ohio's "Coffee with the Candidate" podcast
September 20, 2021 02:27 - 1 minuteLoveland Local News brings you “Coffee with the Candidate,” a conversation with Editor Joe Wessels focusing on the candidacy of 16 different people running to either be on the Loveland City Council or the Loveland City School District school board. We sit down with those who want to lead our community and ask them the tough questions about their candidacy - and what they would do if they were elected. We also get to know each person an individual level. Subscribe today so you won’t miss a si...