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Bring It On! – July 23, 2018

Jennifer Crossley and William Hosea welcome Gail Walker PART ONE On tonight’s show, Jennifer and William are joined by Gail Walker, Executive Director of The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. She joins us to talk about the IFCO as well as Pastors for Peace, whose two-fold aim is to deliver material aid to support the victims of so-called “low intensity” …

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New Rule Limits Sale of Native Plants

The Natural Resources Commission granted preliminary adoption to a new rule last week that would remove 44 plant species from the state. The rule, which could take up to 12 months to implement, would prohibit the sale and trade of 44 plant species considered to be invasive in the state of Indiana. Megan Abraham is the Director of the Division …

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Hola Bloomington- July 20,2018

Locutora Maria Auxi entrevista a Juan Jose y Darlene emprendedores de Food Truck “Juanchos Munchies” para dar a conocer su nueva meta el Restaurante Venezolano Arepas Gastro Pop. Host Maria Auxi interviews Juan Jose and Darlene of Food Truck “Juanchos Munchies” entrepreneurs to make know the new goal Arepas Gastro Pop Venezuelan Restaurant.

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July 20, 2018: Tear Down the Inner Prisons

This week, Johdy Polk, from Gainesville, Florida, describes her time inside a women’s prison, while sharing cutting observations on growing up as a black woman in a white supremacist society. She also makes an urgent call to tear down our inner prisons, a call that we think resonates with the torrent of news we are sharing this week. Prisoners across …

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Saturday’s Child: Amanda Webb Band

The Amanda Webb Band joined Saturday’s Child July 14. Hailing from the moonshiner hills of Brown County, Indiana, this brand of smooth bourbon blues is a mix of multiple genres influenced by the European Blues tradition. Classically trained at the prestigious IU Jacobs School of Music, raised on rock n’ roll, and steeped in back wood bluegrass jams, Amanda Webb …

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BloomingOUT – Evelyn Smith Interview – July 19th, 2018

Evelyn Smith is a transgender lesbian and a survivor of sexual violence we will be speaking with her tonight about QueerTalk a combination support group that meets once-a-month exploring issues related to LGBTQ+ identity, history.  She serves as Community Outreach Coordinator for Middle Way House in Bloomington, Indiana. She is a trans lesbian and a survivor of sexual violence and …

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Daily Local News – July 19, 2018

Indiana residents have been receiving unsolicited text messages urging them to call Senator Joe Donnelly’s office.  Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has joined the attorneys general of 25 other states in sending a letter to the U.S. Senate in support of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  Indiana Attorney General Cutis Hill has taken to advertising his innocence online.  The Monroe …

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Donnelly Targeted in Texting Spoof

Indiana residents have been receiving unsolicited text messages urging them to call Senator Joe Donnelly’s office. The Indianapolis Star reports the text messages are directed at Indiana area codes, and urge residents to pressure the first-term Democratic Senator to vote to confirm President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee. The texts come from the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative political organization …

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The Poet & The Publisher: Chris Mattingly & Dave Torneo

Both Chris Mattingly and Dave Torneo are lovers of words — and the means to convey them to the public. They have founded several old school, letter block presses specializing in handmade volumes of poetry. Mattingly, who has published three books already, will release his fourth, The Catalyst, later this month. His work deals with family, love, violence, baseball, and …

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Indiana Leads Growth in Economic Inequality

Indiana leads the Midwest in growing economic inequality. According to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% in Indiana owns 17.3 times the wealth of the rest of the state. Indiana Institute for Working Families Senior Policy Analyst Andrew Bradley said economic inequality in Indiana is growing, and growing faster than its neighbors. Bradley is a …

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