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Citizen Lobbyists Advocate For Carbon Fee

Citizen Climate Lobby is a grassroots environmental group working to influence congressional leaders to create a bipartisan policy to slow climate change. WFHB Correspondent Sarah Vaughan spoke with two volunteer lobbyists from CCL’s local chapter, to learn about their efforts to pass legislation that would create a national carbon fee and dividend program. House Resolution 763, the 2019 Energy Innovation …

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Big Talk Extra, with Hilary Fleck

Hilary Fleck was awarded a May Wright Sewall Fellowship grant by Indiana Humanities earlier this year. Fleck, the collections manager at the Monroe County History Center, is researching the role of local women in the lead-up to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, guaranteeing the right of women to vote in all elections. Next year will …

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Unpaid Internships

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 …

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Support for Proposed Convention Center

Financial advisers hired by the City of Bloomington have concluded the City can financially support funding a proposed Convention Center expansion with bonds. As currently proposed, a 60 thousand square foot expansion would cost roughly 44 million dollars, and would include a 30 thousand square foot exhibit hall, and renovating the existing convention center. A food and beverage tax was …

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City Council Proposed Student Development

The Bloomington City Council met last night to discuss a previous decision they had made concerning a proposed student development.  Some council members expressed reservations about re-hearing the proposal. Council member Dorothy Granger was the first to express her thoughts.  Other council members, such as Chris Sturbaum, hoped that approving this proposal would help rehabilitate the area with sidewalks and …

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An ethanol processing facility in Cloverdale is closing

An ethanol processing facility in Cloverdale is closing after just eight years in operation. The owner of the ethanol bioprocessing facility in Putnam County says U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decisions are to blame for the facility’s shuttering. POET LLC says hundreds of local jobs will be impacted by the plant closing and the company will no longer process over 30 …

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Community Conversations: Vulture Video

WFHB correspondent Kevin Oliver spoke with Vulture Video employee Kendal Spencer. They talk about his job at one Indiana’s last remaining video rental stores, and how he went against his parent’s wishes to follow his love for horror movies.

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Community Conversation: Eric Shelley and Cassie Hakken

WFHB correspondent, Macy Evens sits with down with Eric Shelley and Cassie Hakken from the Bloomington Academy of Film and Theater. They talk about how the organization’s programming has grown since the earlier the year, and its partnership with Cardinal Stage.

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Local Citizen Climate Lobbyists Advocate For Carbon Tax

By Sarah Vaughan A carbon fee and dividend policy proposed by Citizens’ Climate Lobby could be a game changer for the environment, according to CCL volunteer lobbyists Robert Meitus and Richard Durisen. They believe an issue as large as climate change requires a large, collectively driven solution. “I kinda realized that, no matter what I do personally – driving a …

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Community Conversation: Mandela Washington Fellows

The Mandela Washington Fellows are a pool of 700 young civic leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa. The fellows were chosen for their outstanding work in their communities. They travel to universities across the U.S. to attend leadership institutes funded by the U.S. Department of State. Indiana University hosted twenty five of this year’s fellows. WFHB correspondent Macy Evans talked with three …

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