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Daily Local News – February 14, 2019

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Last night, the Bloomington Common Council approved a two and a half million dollar tax break for local bio tech company, Catalent; Bloomington’s City Hall in the historic Showers Building has been certified LEED Gold; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb did not appoint any teachers or school leaders to a commission on teacher pay; A hate crimes bill is scheduled to receive a hearing, just before the deadline to move it out of committee.

FEATURES
The Monroe County Chapter of the NAACP and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington’s Racial Justice Task Force released a study last year, examining 20 years of racial inequality in the criminal justice system, education, housing and employment in Monroe County. In today’s second part of a two-part Feature report examining that study’s findings, we’ll hear excerpts from attorney William Morris’ presentation, on the racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

VOICES IN THE STREET
With the sale of The Herald-Times newspaper to Gatehouse Media on Friday, February 1, our weekly public opinion feature asks area residents if they have a subscription to the local paper, and how they get their news.

CREDITS
Today’s headlines were written by Andrew McKearing, 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 Isaak Gonzalez.
Our engineer for today was Executive Producer Wes Martin, with help from Kevin Oliver.
Our theme music is provided by Ben Lumsdaine, Scott Schmadeke, and Dani Graf.
Today’s anchors were Sarah Vaughan and Carolyn VandeWiele.

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