The Senate Committee on Public Policy passes Senate Bill Twelve, taking one step closer to passing a Hate Crimes Bill for Indiana; Chick Fil-A in Bloomington sponsors Volunteer day at flood-damaged Mays Greenhouse; Residents of Bloomington’s Waterman neighborhood raise concerns about contaminants in stormwater runoff from JB Salvage; Jackson county man is in the running for the state’s top conservation …

Phil Stafford has spent his career as a researcher and advocate in the area of aging. Now retired, he has chosen to spend some of his time as a volunteer with the City’s Commission on Aging. The work of the Commission has given him a place to continue his work as a healthy aging advocate. He is a part of …

His work can be seen in any number of public locations around town, both indoors and outdoors. Joe Lamantia creates three-dimensional art with the help of individuals and groups, his collaborators ranging from pre-schoolers to the elderly. In Joe’s world, the finished work of art is nowhere near as important as the cooperative process that created it. He works mainly in …

Locutora Luz Lopez entervista a Rafael Guerrero y Dulce Ruiz Lemus, sobre los servicios de preparacion de inpuestos de United Way of Monroe County. Ademas, entrevista a Esther Fuentes sobre distintos servcios como abrir una cuenta de banco, tramitar el numero ITIN y otros servicios. Host, Luz Lopez, Interviews Rafael Guerrero and Dulce Ruiz Lemus about United Way of Monroe …

Millaze is the deliberate dissociation character from a story (“The Dialectic”) that took pianist singer/songwriter Emily Plazek 11 years to write, and will be released starting in 2019. Millaze’s sound begins in her trained piano singer/songwriter style, and then is either kept acoustic for epic heartbreaking anthems, or produced into a “dreamhop” style using emo-rock and rap/hip-hop inspired instrument palettes. …

This week is an interview with Samantha Johnson, from No New Jails in Brooklyn, New York. As we reported recently, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn recently was the target of large scale demonstrations, after prisoners expressed to their loved ones on the outside that they were being denied basic human needs such as heat, fresh food, and running water. …

Last night, the Bloomington Common Council approved a two and a half million dollar tax break for local bio tech company, Catalent; Bloomington’s City Hall in the historic Showers Building has been certified LEED Gold; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb did not appoint any teachers or school leaders to a commission on teacher pay; A hate crimes bill is scheduled to receive a hearing, …

Last night, the Bloomington Common Council approved a $2.5 million tax break for local bio tech company, Catalent. The tax break is being awarded as Catalent plans a $125 million expansion of its local facilities.  Brian Payne, the city’s assistant director of economic and sustainable development, said Catalent’s expansion will come in two phases, and yield 200 new jobs. Catalent currently …

The Monroe County Chapter of the NAACP and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington’s Racial Justice Task Force released a study last year, examining 20 years of racial inequality in the criminal justice system, education, housing and employment. At the State of the Black Community, speakers presented the results of that study. In today’s second part of a two part …

In this week’s segment of “Secret Life of Fungi,” WFHB’s Kaylnn Huffman Brower discusses mushrooms in space.