Today: We bring you at-length conversations with Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. about the Sheriff's Department itself and the efforts to fight cross-border crime and the opioid epidemic... and with Joan Machucua, an Ogden Dunes resident who is helping organize northwest Indiana residents to attend the upcoming Womens March Chicago. She talked recently with Lakeshore Public Radio's Sharon Jackson.
And Northwest Indiana politicsl activist Ruth Needleman is back with an update on issues and events, including plans for another ICE protest outside the Gary-Chicago International Airport.