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Eco Report – June 2, 2023

Eco

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Kade Young. Later in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Hank Duncan, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, on the City’s Greenways, streets that allow automobiles and parking that are designated as corridors made safer for those utilizing greener modes of transit. And now for your environmental reports: …

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June 2, 2023: The Atlanta Solidarity Fund

On the morning of May 31st, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department raided a house and arrested three staff members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund is a non profit organization that supports those arrested for protesting or otherwise prosecuted for involvement in social movements. Over the last year, the fund has focused on supporting …

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Prescription for Healthcare – Richard Master, producer of American Hospitals, Part 2, June 2023

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we have part 2 of our interview with Richard Master, prominent businessman and producer of the new movie American Hospitals, Healing a Broken System. …

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WFHB Founder Jeffrey Morris, Part 1

He held on to the dream for almost two full decades before WFHB went on the air. While he was living in a converted garage with no plumbing in 1975, Jeffrey Morris began making plans to start up a community radio station here in Bloomington. A revolving cast of friends and like-minded dreamers came and went as the years passed …

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Deep Dive: Tree Inventory (Part 2 )

This is DEEP DIVE: WFHB AND LIMESTONE POST INVESTIGATE where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into trees in Monroe County. What trees we have, what benefits they provide, and which trees to root for and which to root out! This week we spoke with Bloomington …

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Bring It On! – May 29, 2023: Lee Rosser – from Wrestler to Chef

This is a rebroadcast from May 8, 2023. Chef Lee Rosser On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell welcome Chef Lee Rosser. In a recent Bloom Magazine article, Carmen Siering wrote that for more than 25 years, Lee Rosser was a professional wrestler—a showman with a flair for pageantry, storytelling, and bringing people together. …

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Eco Report – May 26, 2023

Eco

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. Later in the program, we conclude with Part Four of a series by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze from an interview with Bill Brown of the Environmental Resilience Institute or E-R-I of Indiana University on how E-R-I assists institutions, communities, organizations, businesses and governmental entities to plan …

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WFHB Development Director Brooke Turpin

A veteran of community radio as well as nonprofit fundraising, Brooke Turpin came to WFHB during the pandemic and has professionalized the station’s efforts to support and market itself. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Turpin worked for the grandmama of community radio, KPFA in Berkeley. The flagship of the Pacifica Network of 140 nonprofit, community radio …

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Deep Dive: Tree Inventory (Part 1)

This is DEEP DIVE: WFHB AND LIMESTONE POST INVESTIGATE where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into trees in Monroe County. What trees we have, what benefits they provide, and which trees to root for and which to root out!   When you walk outside and …

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Civic Conversations with Miriam Northcutt-Bohmert on the racial, ethnic and gender disparities in our legal system

We welcomed Miriam Northcutt-Bohmert, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, in May.  Professor Northcutt-Bohmert shared information from her research on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in our legal system.  In the podcast, Professor Northcutt-Bohmert talked about how our jail system has become the default repository for those with mental illness and substance abuse.  She shared how our Monroe County jails …

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