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The WFHB News Department will provide live coverage of today's State of the City Address. At 5:30pm today Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan highlights the accomplishments of city administration in the past year and outlines goals for the coming year. After the speeches WFHB's Will Murphy and Chad Carrothers will gather reactions from the crowd.

On Tuesday, February 23 and Wednesday, February 24, Bloomington’s community radio station WFHB will once again unite listeners with people all across the country to raise awareness of the defining social justice issue of our time. WFHB is one of nearly 200 radio stations carrying the National Homelessness Marathon, a 14-hour live broadcast featuring the voices and stories of homeless people from around the U.S. WFHB will air the entire fourteen-hour program, currently in its thirteenth year, starting at 7pm on Tuesday and ending at 9am on Wednesday, when the station returns to its regularly-scheduled programming. New this year is a half-hour live remote broadcast from Bloomington at 2am Wednesday morning, on the topic of family homelessness, featuring local homeless people and social service advocates and moderated by local talk radio luminary Darryl Neher, live from a local homeless shelter.

Whew, it's over! As we load the final audio onto the website, another intense MLK Day draws to a close. This year was more productive than last, with more volunteers, more PSAs, more day-of audio, and a problem-free live broadcast using the new remote broadcast system we launched a year ago today.

Here's the audio of keynote speaker Jesse Jackson's speech, the cleanest copy available on the Internet!
http://www.wfhb.org/news/jesse-jackson-turn-lights-back

You can hear the entire live feed here, including Jesse Jackson's keynote address:
https://www.wfhb.org/news/2010-mlk-day-celebration

And the kids did great on our annual youth-produced documentary "A King's Legacy" - that's on our website too:
https://www.wfhb.org/news/kings-legacy-next-generation-2010

There are so many people to thank, I hope I don't miss any:

LIVE BROADCAST CREW
Shane Young, director
Jim Lang, control room supervisor
Tyren Edenburgh, broadcast monitor

A KING'S LEGACY CREW

On Monday, January 18th, Bloomington Community Radio WFHB will once again dedicate a significant portion of our broadcast day to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year will mark the seventh year that WFHB has partnered with the City of Bloomington and local service agencies.

Our day of community service includes “A Day On, Not a Day Off – live from the Buskirk-Chumley Theater” – our volunteers will cap off the day’s activities by producing a live radio broadcast of the city’s MLK birthday celebration. Tune in to hear this year's keynote speaker, the Rev. Jesse Jackson join with the Bloomington community to celebrate a day of service to others. Listen live at 7:00pm over the airwaves at 91.3 FM or on the internet at www.wfhb.org.

WFHB is proud to partner with the city of Bloomington for “A Day On, Not a Day Off”, a celebration of the ideals and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As part of our coverage of this year’s events we’re highlighting some of the many local volunteer service projects honoring the King legacy. You can join an active celebration of the King holiday by participating in these or any community service project honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s vision of peace, understanding, and justice. To see the complete list of volunteer service projects that recorded public service announcements currently running on WFHB click here.

Black Student Union March on Jordan
https://www.wfhb.org/news/black-student-union-march-jordan

BloomingPeace Partners City of Peace Initiative
https://www.wfhb.org/news/bloomingpeace-partners-city-peace-initiative

Boxcar Books Promote Literacy

Bystanders might have thought there was a rock concert going on at the Indiana University Auditorium based on the line to get in, which snaked around Showalter Fountain and down the street to the HPER building. But no, it wasn’t Bob Dylan - it was evolutionary biologist, author, and atheist Richard Dawkins. An event organizer says as many as a thousand people were turned away because the auditorium was filled to capacity. Click here for an hour-long edit of Dawkins' Bloomington lecture, organized by the Indiana Memorial Union Board and the Secular Alliance of IU and recorded on-location at the IU Auditorium on October 12, 2009.

Can you be good without God? WFHB News is proud to present a public debate on Monday October 19th at 7pm in Woodburn Hall featuring local pastor Dan Waugh and minister-turned-atheist Dan Barker. One says you can be good without God, the other says you cannot. That's the "Battle of the Dans" - a public debate hosted by radio personality Darryl Neher, Monday October 19th at 7pm in Woodburn Hall, a production of the WFHB News and Public Affairs Department.

Just received the message below from Randy Paul, an organizer of unionizing efforts at BT Access and Rural Transit auxiliary bus services. Paul says the Area 10 Agency on Aging is dropping the BT Access program and its director blames him for going public with criticisms of management. Paul says he will speak at the city council meeting tonight. His message to us and to city council members is posted below the following links to some of our coverage of the BT Access union movement.  A response from the Area 10 director follows below Paul's message.

May 27 Daily Local News
April 23 Daily Local News

FROM: Randy Paul
Dear City Council members:

Tweet much? You're invited to "follow" the new WFHB News Twitter account. Generally we only post one or two updates per day, so this won't flood your account or anything. This is a great way to get updates on what's going on behind-the-scenes AND on the air with WFHB News. The account username is WFHB_News. Please follow us!

Chad Carrothers here, in Indianapolis at the annual awards banquet of the Society of Professional Journalists. I am proud to announce WFHB has just won first place in the category of Best Social Justice Reporting! This is for a piece on generational homelessness exploring the story of a father and son who have found that being homeless together has bonded them in a way that transcends typical father-son relationships.  You can listen to it by CLICKING HERE. 
This feature report was produced at WFHB for the 2008 National Homelessness Marathon and aired on hundreds of stations.  Our 2009 report was even better so we'll be sure to submit that piece for next year's awards.