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Food Entrepreneur Jeff Mease, Part 1

With his long-time business partner and ex-wife, Helen “Lennie” Busch, Mease runs a food empire in Bloomington. Their One World Enterprises parent company operates Pizza X, Lennie’s, Bloomington Brewing Co., Hive, a catering service, an industrial kitchen open to other food entrepreneurs, and a Euro-style community garden on their 96-acre farm west of the city. Part 1 of the conversation …

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Better Beware – TAANSTAFL

People are getting things delivered that they never ordered — and it’s a scam. Unscrupulous sellers are padding their sales figures and posting fake reviews online. But There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!

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News Brief – January 27, 2021

A new winter shelter for people without housing, run by Beacon Inc., opened less than two weeks ago, but almost every night it’s been at or near capacity, with just shy of fifty people sleeping there. Beacon rushed to open the shelter after an unprecedented number of people without housing were forced to camp in Seminary Park this winter. Disregarding …

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Interchange – How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry

Today we feature the radical work of Muriel Rukeyser, whose poetics treatise, The Life of Poetry, first published in 1949, can be called an anti-Fascist manifesto. We struggle at times to place Rukeyser inside our understanding of politics and poetry as she herself struggled to not be placed – like Thoreau, she did not wish to be regarded as a …

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Terran Robotics: AI Meets Natural Building

Bloomington based Terran Robotics startup is developing artificial intelligence and drone technology to construct environmentally sound buildings out of natural materials. Terran Robotics is a recent recipient of a National Science Foundation grant worth about a quarter of a million dollars.

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WFHB TOP ALBUMS 1.26.21

1. Dave Alvin – From An Old Guitar 2. Bosq – Y Su Descarga Internacional 3. Heathered Pearls  – Cast   4. Buck Meek – Two Saviors 5. Kim Wilson – Take Me Back 6. Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions – Bir Zamanlar Simdi 7. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – I Told You So 8. Juana Molina – ANRMAL (Live In Mexico) …

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Bring It On! – January 25, 2021: Black History Month & Wealth Building

Today’s hosts of Bring  It On!, Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the first half of the show speaking with Shatoyia Moss, Bloomington’s Safe and Civil City Director, and Gloria Howell, the Director of IU’s Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, about the events being held by the City of Bloomington and the Indiana University Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center to commemorate National …

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Environmental Justice

Welcome to our Environmental Justice episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Meloddy Gao and Cindy Nguyen! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions.  In this episode we talk with Cindy Nguyen about environmental justice and her experiences with environmental education. Her background is …

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Mental Health

Welcome to our Mental Health episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Kulsoom Tapal and Sophie Wang! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode our moderated Kulsoom Tapal talks with Sophie Wang about the struggles of dealing with our mental health …

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Model Minority Myth

Welcome to our 37th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Hibah Butt, Elise Lee, and Kulsoom Tapal! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode we talk with Indiana University Bloomington alumni Kevin Phan and James Paulson. We discuss the Model …

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