Daily Journal

From the Daily Journal, this is a special episode of Beyond the Headlines on location from the Johnson County Voter Forum at Franklin College.

From the Daily Journal, this is Beyond the Headlines, a local news podcast focused on story shaping Johnson County.

Welcome to our fifth voter forum.

Somehow, I've been lucky enough to be the moderator of all of these.

But really, if it hadn't been for Bridges, this would not have started.

The mission of Bridges Alliance is to foster community collaboration to end poverty by providing a proofing tool for stability and independence.

When you couple that with our county's only media outlet, The Daily Journal, and Franklin College's political science department, and the Johnson County League of Women Voters, you can see how it all fits together to promote and inform, to promote and inform voters and give them a platform to speak directly with candidates for local, county, state, and national offices.

You know, on Monday, I was doing a round of watching some news, and I came across a program called Common Ground, hosted by Samantha.