Daily Local News – October 25, 2018

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President Donald Trump will visit Indianapolis to speak at the annual Future Farmers of America (FFA) convention, this Saturday; Indiana residents voting in the upcoming midterm elections will have to answer three public questions on their ballot; Indiana Senators Joe Donnelly and Todd Young were behind a bipartisan bill to address the opioid epidemic; Monroe County Probation Department and the Department of Corrections will require sex offenders on probation to attend a mandatory meeting on Halloween.

FEATURE
Professor Sanya Carley of Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs discusses the economics of coal and renewable energies with WFHB’s Norm Holy.

VOICES IN THE STREETS
Earlier this week, San Francisco approved a measure to allow for non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. Our weekly public opinion feature Voices in the Street asks if residents would support a similar measure in Bloomington.

CREDITS
You’ve been listening to the Daily Local News on WFHB,
Today’s headlines were written by Annie Aguiar and Gabe Donnelly.
Our feature was produced by Wes Martin and Sarah Vaughan
Voices in the Street was produced by Isaak Gonzalez,
Our engineer today is Dan Withered.
Our theme music is provided by Ben Lumsdaine, Scott Schmadeke, and Dani Graf.
Executive Producer is Wes Martin.
Our anchors are Benedict Jones and Carolyn VandeWiele.