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Daily Local News – October 6, 2016

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Developers of a proposed high-density student housing complex planned for Dunn Hill are facing tough criticism from area residents; A Baptist congregation saw its efforts to build a new church stalled again by Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals; The United Way of Monroe County has announced this start of its 2016-2017 Fund Drive; The Indiana Institute for Working Families recently reported findings from an American Community Survey, which states that Indiana is now home to 439,000 Hispanic or Latino individuals, or 6.6 percent of the State’s population; According to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the cost of maintaining Indiana’s roads and bridges rose to $2 billion in 2015; A woman from the Ohio River town of Patriot, Indiana was arrested last week for a fake online cancer scam.

FEATURE
People of color have a long and fascinating history in the state of Indiana. Admitted to the Union as a free state 200 years ago, the state still was home to slaves, with slaveholders employing a variety of tricks to skirt the law and keep people in virtual bandage to them. Playwrights Dr. Gladys DeVane and Liz Watford-Mitchell as well as director Danielle Bruce will stage the original multimedia production “Resilience: Indiana’s Untold Story,” a re-telling through their vivid imaginations of dark-skinned people’s stories here in the Hoosier State. The play will run at the John Waldron Arts Center, October 14th through the 16th. The three join Michael Glab on this week’s edition of Big Talk.

CREDITS
Anchors: Carolyn VandeWiele and Ryan Stacy
Today’s headlines were written by Cathi Norton and Leah Carter
Along with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Crawford for CATSweek, a partnership with Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Michael Glab
Our engineer today is Chris Martin
Our theme music is provided by the Impossible Shapes.
Executive Producer is Joe Crawford.

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