Joel Natalie
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Erie issues, translated into local consequences.
TalkErie.com's Joel Natalie Show is daily Erie public affairs by way of practical interviews. County housing plans, tariffs, farming, health awareness, zoo questions, and local government jobs are treated as neighborhood consequences, not abstract headlines.
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TalkErie.com's Joel Natalie Show is daily public affairs rooted in Erie, Pennsylvania and the surrounding county. It treats regional news as something that happens through funding, tariffs, crops, transit, charities, foundations, and public jobs. The show is interview-driven. Guests carry much of the expertise, while the conversation keeps pulling specialized language back toward practical consequences. A county executive conversation can move from small homes and zoning rules to empty lots in Corry, Union City, Albion, or Girard. A tariff segment can turn federal trade policy into metal weights, duty rates, gaskets, rubber rings, and the paperwork local importers have to face. An agriculture episode can spend time on rented county land, drainage tiles, planting windows, harvest timing, and the economics of investing in soil improvements that may take decades to pay off. Housing coverage is especially concrete. Schoolhouse apartments are discussed through HUD dollars, PHFA funding, city home ARP funds, performance bonds, private philanthropy, and the hard math of making supportive housing projects real. The show also makes room for health and community institutions. Parkinson's Awareness Month, the Erie Zoo, Erie Events, and a local forecaster moving into a county engagement role all sit inside the same civic frame. The style is not slick or detached. It is measured, conversational, and willing to stop when something does not make sense. That is part of the appeal. The program asks layperson questions in public, then lets guests explain the systems that usually stay behind closed doors. Its localness is not decorative. Erie is the operating unit: the market, the county, the audience, the problem set, and the reason the details matter.
Made for: For Erie-area listeners who want civic, business, health, and institutional news explained through practical interviews. It suits people who care about how regional decisions affect neighborhoods, employers, farms, nonprofits, and public services.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by making policy feel operational. Instead of staying with broad talking points, it follows the paperwork, funding rules, land constraints, job titles, and business costs that determine what actually happens in Erie County.
Every day on 103.3, 105.9, and 1530 TalkErie.com's Joel Natalie Show, we tackle the biggest issues that the Erie, PA region faces. Stay informed and involved as we advance the narrative of Erie.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joel Natale makes Erie-area government legible by pressing officials and community figures on authority, funding, process and unresolved decisions.
Joel Natale treats local government as something residents should be able to follow at the working level. His interviews stay close to decisions, funding and implementation, giving officials and community figures room to explain how policy moves from proposal to practice.
City Hall becomes kitchen-table business when you want the pipes, permits, and public money explained.
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Erie housing policy gets real once approvals and zoning slow actual units down.
This segment turns Erie’s housing crunch into something concrete. The small-homes effort is the thread that keeps pulling the discussion back to the hard parts: where units land, what still needs finishing, and how zoning and paperwork shape the pace.
Tariff rules become a local story about prices, paperwork, and Erie business costs.
This story turns the new metal tariff rules into a practical Erie business account. It lays out how customs brokers now have to track smelter and cast details, and how some products can end up facing more than one duty.
A plainspoken look at how Erie-area farming turns land, timing, and risk into hard business.
Mark and Colton Troyer turn an agriculture discussion into a plainspoken look at rented land, drainage, tiling, and the risk of losing a season's inputs to flooding.
An Erie housing project's layered funding, costs, and public-finance tradeoffs.
Schoolhouse Apartments is presented as a reminder that housing projects rarely move on a single source of money. Laura Gunchen and Boo Haggerty lay out the practical drag from rising material and labor costs, then show how financing rules can add expense before construction even…
A practical Erie civic conversation about housing, repairs, and the rules behind both.
Erie city hall spends most of this conversation on the dull but necessary work behind housing stability: roof repair, code enforcement, aging homes, and the rules that decide who gets help.
A grounded look at how Erie manufacturers hire, lead, and keep work moving.
Joel Natalie uses this conversation with Sarah Hanks, president and CEO of the Northwest Industrial Resource Center, to stay close to the day to day realities of manufacturing in Erie.
Pennsylvania history, handled as a local public-affairs conversation.
Mark Smith joins Joel Natale for a conversation that moves across Pennsylvania history, from William Penn to the Second Continental Congress. The point is straightforward: Pennsylvania has never been a tidy civic brand.
A practical Erie city-hall check-in centered on housing, leverage, and next-step accountability.
Mayor Daria S. Devlin's first monthly meeting keeps its eyes on the practical pieces: housing, city leverage, and the work Erie needs in place before philanthropic and corporate partners show up.
Sam Harris interviews scientists and journalists on AI risk, religion, and US politics.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway argue through tech, media, and Trump-era politics twice weekly.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Sharp political debate with policy detail and real disagreement.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
Joel Natale talks with Erie County Executive Christina Vogel on a Monday conversation that keeps returning to housing.
Tariffs get local, fast.
Agriculture gets very local in this one.
Laura Guncheon and Boo Hagerty focus on the Schoolhouse Apartments, a BUILD Community Development Corporation project that would turn the old Erie School District building at 21st and Sass into permanent supportive housing.
This episode features an interview with Brian Vogt about his Democracy Listening Tour of Red America, exploring political research and democratic engagement in the Erie region.
This episode kicks off Parkinson's Awareness Month with an interview featuring Lynne Gotham, Executive Director of Parkinson Partners of Northwest, discussing the disease and community support efforts.
This episode discusses recent leadership changes and solutions at the Erie Zoo, featuring interviews with the Executive Director of Erie Events and the CEO of the Erie Zoological Society.
Joel Natalie interviews John Stalen about his transition from lead forecaster to countywide engagement officer for Erie County.
Roofs are the problem on the table.
Joel Natalie interviews Mark Becker, athletic director for Mill Creek Township School District, about high school and middle school sports programs in Erie, PA.
Joel Natalie interviews retired naval officer Brian Lasher about the war in Iran and his military background.
Joel Natalie interviews Dr.
Joel Natalie interviews former Congressman Phil English about Erie regional issues on St.
Joel Natalie interviews Jeremy Blazer, Executive Director of the Erie County Land Bank, about turning vacant properties into vibrant spaces.
Host Joel Natalie interviews film director John C.
Joel Natalie interviews Kim Thomas about the Erie Housing Accelerator Plan to address local housing issues.
Joel Metalli interviews Bobby Pape, Executive Director of the Erie Philharmonic, about the orchestra's new season and its role as a cultural asset in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Hanks says NWIRC works with small and midsize manufacturers across 13 Northwest Pennsylvania counties, from Erie County to Potter and Clearfield, to improve top-line and bottom-line growth.
This episode features an interview with Congressman Mike Kelly discussing local issues and community engagement in Erie, Pennsylvania.
This episode features an interview with authors Christine Lorraine Morgan and Anna Mae Van Dyne about their new book on the history of Grove House Park and Four Mile Creek Park in Erie, Pennsylvania.
This episode features an interview with Seth Trott, president of the Presque Isle Neighborhood Network, and Jennifer Farrar, president and CEO of the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, discussing their organizations' roles in the Erie, PA region.
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Joel Natalie interviews Gary Lee, Chief Administrative Officer of Diverse Erie, about the organization's four-year history and its role in the community.
Joel Natalie discusses a recent Erie County Council vote on ending a contract with ICE to house detainees in the county prison.
History and podcasting sit at the same table.
Erie gets its first monthly check-in.
Higher ed gets practical fast.
John Hilbert walks through PHB's name and roots, from Parker Hilbert Benson to Partners Hilbert Brothers, before the talk lands on Erie's shop floor.
Mill Creek voters already made their call.
A daily local news and politics podcast covering Erie, PA, with a segment on curling.
Heart disease lands close to home.
Christina Vogel is back at the table.
Joel Natalie interviews Erie County Executive Christina Vogel about local issues and governance.
A daily talk show discussing local Erie issues, featuring an interview with two CEOs about transportation.
A daily podcast covering the biggest issues facing the Erie, PA region, with local news and community discussion.
Joel Natalie interviews David Gonzalez, Executive Director of St.
Joel Natalie hosts a daily podcast covering Erie's biggest issues, with this episode featuring a fitness discussion with FitPlus founders.
Joel Natalie interviews commercial real estate expert Chuck Peters about the outlook for Erie's market in 2025.
Joel Natalie interviews the executive director of the Erie Regional Airport Authority about recent developments at Erie International Airport.
Joel Natalie discusses the charging of a Pennsylvania State Parole Agent with homicide in connection with an officer-involved shooting.