Internships are a great way for students to gain experience in the field in which they hope to build a career, but most are unpaid. At what point is it illegal for someone to work without pay? In today’s community report, Indiana University professor Kenneth Glenn Dau-Schmidt tells WFHB’s Sydney Foreman what an unpaid internship should look like, and how …

Bloomington City Council Representative Isabel Piedmont-Smith will hold her monthly constituent meeting this Saturday, September 27th. The meeting will feature a discussion of issues before the city council, including the city’s 2020 budget. Piedmont-Smith will also present a draft resolution recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day in Bloomington. In a press release, Piedmont Smith points out …

We’re missing Justin this week but Lucas, our engineer, agreed to join in on the conversation. Catch up on some local news, including a discussion about the inclusion of the singular “they” into the Merriam-Webster dictionary, some controversy with the recent Arizona supreme court decision that would give business owners the power to deny services based on their lgbtq+ status, …

Indiana’s members of Congress are responding to yesterday’s release of a summary of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The IndyStar reports reactions as being largely split across party lines. 7th District Congressman André Carson spoke on the House floor on Wednesday, calling for the White House to release the whistleblower complaint relating to Trump’s phone …

As next year’s 100th anniversary of the ratification of 19th Amendment (mandating the women’s vote in all elections in the United States) approached, Monroe County History Center collections manager Hilary Fleck became curious about the role of local women in the fight for the vote. She was warded the May Wright Sewall Fellowship from Indiana Humanities to do research on …

Features Today we have a news story about last Friday’s climate strike. The focus of Kalynn Huffman Brower’s story is on two local high schoolers who spoke at the rally in Dunn Meadow. We also have a feature from Norm Holy. This is part two of his interview with David Konisky , a professor at I.U. Bloomington School of Public …

The City of Bloomington’s Urban Forester, Lee Huss, says trees have always been important to the city and its residents. A recent survey of public trees conducted by Davey Resource Group shows that, over the past 25 years, the city has increased the number and diversity of its street trees. But local climate activists have asked the city to green …

The Monroe County Community School Board met last night, and heard about the 2020 school budget as well as the school corporation’s I-LEARN results. Markay Winston, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, shared the district’s ILEARN standardized testing data at the meeting. MCCSC had higher passing rates than the state percentages across the board for 2018-19. While the school corporation’s …

On Tuesday, October 8th, the City of Bloomington will host Ada Lovelace Day, in honor of Ada Byron Lovelace, the mother of the modern-day computer. The day’s celebrations will focus on how the arts relate to STEM, or Science, Technology and Math. Festivities will begin at 11:00am, with a special Ada Lovelace March that will start outside IU’s Luddy Hall …

Defenestration – ever hear that word? It means killing somebody by throwing them out a window. Can you imagine an action movie called “ The Defenestrator!” OK, that’s a joke, but your privacy is being defenestrated…and that’s no joke. The medical community all over the country has been working hard to convert all their records from paperwork to digital, and …