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Daily Local News – April 12, 2018

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Last night the Bloomington City Council held a special session to commemorate the city’s bicentennial. During the special session’s public comment period, Black Lives Matter advocate Vauhxx Booker announced his group will continue to protest the Mayor’s decision to approve purchasing an armored truck for the police department. Indiana’s Attorney General, Curtis Hill, published an opinion piece this morning, in support of a citizenship question on the next U.S. Census. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Indiana. The City of Bloomington is looking to measure the impact of last winter’s deer cull at Griffy Lake Nature Preserve.

FEATURE: Monroe County and the city of Bloomington are tackling construction projects throughout the city, while The Indiana Department of Transportation is pursuing an ‘aggressive schedule’ in its construction of Interstate 69. Construction throughout Bloomington is causing headaches for residents. In today’s feature report, we’ll hear an update on Interstate 69 construction from Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Andrew Dietriech, who says the state is rushing to complete the section five project through Bloomington before its August deadline and most traffic delays caused by construction should be eased after Memorial Day.

VOICES IN THE STREET: The annual Little 500 bicycle race is coming up next weekend. Our weekly public opinion feature Voices in the Street asks residents how they feel about the race.

CREDITS: Today’s headlines were written by Chuhan Jie, Andrew McKearin, and Wes Martin, Along with Sarah Vaughan for CATSweek, a partnership with Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Wes Martin.
Voices in the Street was produced by Jenna Jankowski.
Our Engineer today is Dan Withered.
Our theme music is provided by the Dani Graf, Ben Lumsdaine and Scott Schmadeke.
Executive Producer is Wes Martin.
Our Anchors today are Ron Bronson and Carolyn VandeWiele.

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