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WFHB Local News – September 23rd, 2021

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, September 23rd, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Nathaniel Weinzapfel speaks with Professor Nathasha MacBean to better understand dryland ecosystems and why they are important in the global climate cycle, as well as the impact her NASA funded research would have on the scientific understandings of drylands. More in today’s feature …

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Indiana University Professor Awarded NASA Grant to Study Drylands

When you think of drylands, what first comes to mind? A field of zebras galloping across the savannas of Africa. Or, perhaps, a rattlesnake slithering past cacti in the deserts of Arizona. Maybe you think of a herd of cattle, munching their way through the Great Plains of the United States. Dryland ecosystems make up around 40% of the land …

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Hearabouts 2021 Opener/School Year Reflections

Welcome to our 47th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB, Our hosts are Melanie Castillo-Cullather and Andrew Pace and our sound engineer is Michael Sears. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode we introduce the brand new season of …

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Interchange – Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus

Today we engage with a masterpiece…literally: scholar Steve Volan’s Master’s thesis, Gownsburg: The Campus as Municipal Phenomenon. Volan has also been a City Council member in Bloomington, Indiana since 2004. In Gownsburg, the politician and the geographer seek common ground in order to describe what the University does well – but more importantly, to help us see how far afield …

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Interchange – The Mask of the Public Good: What the University Costs Communities

The Checkerboard Lounge permanently closed its doors in 2015 – but these doors were not those of the storied blues shrine that had stood on 43rd Street since 1972. The demise of this cultural mainstay opens Davarian Baldwin’s new book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universites Are Plundering Our Cities. In 2003 the University of Chicago put …

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Senate Bill 389: The Modification of Wetlands & Its Impacts

The opposition was strong. Over 110 organizations and individuals signed and delivered a letter to the Governor’s office requesting a veto. The signers represented all parts of Indiana and multiple forms of environmental organizations. However, despite the unprecedented amount of opposition, on April 29th, Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 389, which reduces the amount of wetlands in the state …

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New Hope for Families Expanding in Light of 10-Year Anniversary

New Hope for Families raised $3.9 million to help build a new homeless shelter and child care center. About 40 percent of people experiencing homelessness in Monroe County are families with children, says the organization’s executive director, Emily Pike. “Those people don’t tend to be very visible,” she said. “Those families are afraid of being separated from their children.” Over …

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Prescription for Healthcare – Dr. Mark Bauman (Part One)

Welcome to the June edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a once-a-month podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana.  In today’s segment, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with Dr. Mark Bauman – a former physician at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital and professor at IU School of Medicine who specializes in …

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WFHB Local News – June 1st, 2021

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, June 1st, 2021. Later in the program, BloomingOUT hosts Melanie Davis and Justin Robertson talk to Heather Carpenter-Smith and Jo Bean about organizing the Greenwood PRIDE Block Party, the city’s first ever PRIDE event. More coming up in today’s feature reports. Also coming up in the next half-hour, News Director Kade Young …

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Civic Conversations – Author and Historian James Madison

Welcome to the latest edition of Civic Conversations – a monthly podcast collaboration between The League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County and WFHB. In today’s show, host Jim Allison speaks with James Madison, author of The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland and history professor at Indiana University. The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots, …

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