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Tune in on Wednesday evenings at 5 p.m. for weekly installments of “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.  The two non-profit organizations are partnering up to multiply their resources in order to be able to cover local stories more in-depth than …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, February 13th, 2023. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Dr. Joel Fuhrman, best selling author and renowned physician specializing in preventative nutrition and natural healing. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Activate – narratives from people making positive change …

HEADLINES IndyStar reports that every year when the list of new bills for the Indiana legislative session posts, Hoosiers may feel dizzy with deja vu. —Norm Holy The House Environmental Affairs Committee: 200 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN  46204. You are encouraged to write to them expressing your desire to see changes in Indiana regarding the environment and climate change. …

We start this week’s episode with our monthly round up of prison protests and disturbances, compiled by Perilous Chronicle. After that, we share an Interview with Maru Moro Villalpando of La Resistencia, a project that organizes against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. Once again, prisoners within the detention center have gone on hunger strike, and Maru returns to …

Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Disabulletin, where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world. Tonight, we begin the first leg of an adventure covering the history of Special Education Law in the United States. This is the next chapter in Disabulletin’s continuing coverage of the recent Supreme Court …

“We have a lot of politics in Indiana heading into the 2024 cycle,” said Representative Jim Banks and senate candidate. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb was first elected in 2016, taking his spot in the Indiana State House after former Governor Mike Pence left to take on Washington D.C. as Vice President during the Trump Administration. With his second term ending …

 This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, February 6th, 2022. Later in the program, we have Activate – narratives from people making positive change – done in collaboration with the Bloomington Volunteer Network. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison related news and announcements from the producers of …

HEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy A new study of more than 80 refineries raises serious concerns about the wastewater they are pumping into lakes and rivers across the U.S. One of those polluters is BP’s Whiting Refinery in northwest Indiana. A study found that textbooks’ coverage of climate change expanded from 1970 to 2019, but that the increase was …

Today’s episode highlights the campaign to close Rikers jail in New York and continues our conversation with Anne Gray Fischer about the intertwined stories of policing, the surveillance of women’s bodies, and the creation of the racialized American ghetto.  Both Sy, an organizer against Rikers, and Gray Fischer, extend the histories of control and racial domination back to the middle …

On this week’s episode, we’re doing something a little bit different: featuring two special needs pets who need our help. Our first featured pet is Star, a sweet senior dog who comes to us from Humane Indiana. She initially arrived at Humane Indiana after she was found abandoned at a farm. Star was adopted quickly, but then returned to the …