Danville Farmer's Market: Feeding VC Families & Supporting Local Farmers and Artisans, feat. Susan Franklin
Vermilion County, Illinois, is surrounded by farmland, but one in four of its children goes hungry — the highest rate of child food insecurity in the Eastern Illinois Foodbank's entire 18-county servi...
19 Mai 44min
A Daddy-Daughter Dance, A Celebration, and Two Families Who Refused to Wait for Help To Arrive
According to The Murder Accountability Project, Danville has had 39 homicides between 2018 and 2024, and only one of those was solved. While the family of one victim still waits for justice, they ha...
3 Apr 56min
The System Is Not Sacred: How They Built It and How We Can Change It
Our governmental system isn't sacred; it's man-made, and it can be man-unmade and rebuiltIn preparation for upcoming primaries (March) and mid-term elections (November), this season of "Get With The T...
20 Feb 1h 5min
How Local Government Affects Your Daily Life (and ways you can influence it)
In preparation for upcoming primaries (March) and mid-term elections (November), this season of "Get With The Times" will be all about civics: the study of the rights and duties of citizens and of how...
6 Feb 1h 27min
Civics 101: Who Rules? Government, Power, and the Fight to Influence It
What is power, really? Who holds it, who’s lost it, and how do we reclaim it in our everyday lives?In this Season 2 premiere of Get with the Times, a podcast from The Vermilion Times, we break down th...
23 Jan 57min
On Fighting Food Insecurity Among VC Residents
Food insecurity is on the rise in the United States, as the Trump regime has declared there will be no emergency spending to help fund SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) while the govern...
1 Nov 202551min
On Midwifery As Resistance to Medical Bias & Mistreatment
On this episode of Get With The Times, our guests are local midwives Isis Rose, Hannah Landis, and Elizabeth Cannon. Hannah is a homebirth midwife and the founder of The Danville Birth Project, while ...
25 Okt 20251h 36min
On Healing Shelter Animals (And Being Healed By Them)
On this episode of Get With The Times, our guest is Alyssa Julian, Executive Director of The Humane Society of Danville — a non-profit, no-kill shelter, which is dedicated to the care and welfare of a...
19 Okt 20251h 16min
