{"podcast":{"title":"EmpowerU America Podcast","slug":"empoweru-america-podcast-7044524","podcast_index_feed_id":7044524,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6097761/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/empoweru-america-podcast--6097761","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e8eaab7af6fed5d1e3fea9f035034578.jpg","author":"EmpowerU America Podcast","episode_count":87,"summary":"EmpowerU America's motto is \"educate, enjoy, engage\", and we've been providing free educational lectures, interviews, and events to the public on a range of subjects for over 13 years. During our spring, 2024, semester we will expand our audience through this audio podcast. Join Michael Mercier and Jerry Thomas as they take turns behind EmpowerU's host microphone to interview experts on a variety of subjects, including film, politics, the media, architecture, history, and world affairs. Click \"play\" to EmpowerU!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T12:17:46.713983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/empoweru-america-podcast-7044524"},"episode":{"title":"The Future of Cincinnati | Christopher Smitherman","slug":"the-future-of-cincinnati-christopher-smitherman","published_at":"2026-04-27T12:27:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/empoweru-america-podcast-7044524/the-future-of-cincinnati-christopher-smitherman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/empoweru-america-podcast-7044524","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-future-of-cincinnati-christopher-smitherman--71670846","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71670846/smitherman_audio.mp3","summary":"THE FUTURE OF CINCINNATI | CHRISTOPHER SMITHERMAN Learn first-hand tonight about what Christopher Smitherman thinks needs to be done with the City of Cincinnati for it to be successful and moving forward. Christopher’s experience with the City is unmatched and you will hear from him on many subjects. Learn about his thoughts on the current “Anti-Police”, “Anti-Cop” policies in the City. What about the current mayor, Aftab Pureval? What about Immigration? Will the City’s position as a Sanctuary City cause it to lose important funding from the Federal Government? How about the current form of Government—does it work? Has the City Manager been successful with all the controversies involved with the Fire Department leader being fired, and now the Police Chief being shown the door. Christopher will discuss with us a new petition initiative he is advancing to take away from the City Manager the ability to Fire Police and Fire Department Employees. After several violent attacks in downtown Cincinnati, find out about Smitherman’s Town Hall meeting with Governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. What were the results of the meeting? Should citizens be scared to visit downtown Cincinnati? What practical steps need to be taken to curb crime? How bad is the crime in downtown? Will the City and County ever be able to elect more conservative leaders? Tonight is your chance to meet Christopher Smitherman at EmpowerU. ------------------ OHIO PROPERTY TAXES AND YOU | GREG LAWSON Greg Lawson from the Buckeye Institute will join us tonight from 7:45-8:30 PM. He will be discussing Ohio property taxes which is a very hot issue right now given that the General Assembly has passed various pieces of legislation. The passed legislation will be discussed and what the expected outcome of that legislati…","meta_description":"THE FUTURE OF CINCINNATI | CHRISTOPHER SMITHERMAN Learn first-hand tonight about what Christopher Smitherman thinks needs to be done with the City of Cinc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5241,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/empoweru-america-podcast-7044524/episodes/the-future-of-cincinnati-christopher-smitherman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/empoweru-america-podcast-7044524/the-future-of-cincinnati-christopher-smitherman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}