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Nancy Brand and Martha Vicinus are two women who worked and lived in Bloomington, Indiana and participated within the Women’s Liberation Movement during the 1960s and 1970s. They made advancements in women’s rights such as founding the Women’s Studies Department at Indiana University and creating the IU Women’s Center. Their interviews, conducted in the late 1970s, are brought back to …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, February 29th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB News Correspondent Elyse Perry reports on the City of Bloomington’s Hidden River Tunnel Project. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Bloomington City Council passed a resolution regarding the operation of the Monroe Convention Center. That’s coming …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB News continues our coverage on food insecurity in Indiana during a new installment of Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Inbox Vermin on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, February 14th, 2024. Later in the program, we have Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. Today we look into Food Insecurity in Monroe and Brown Counties. More in today’s feature report. Also coming …

This week, we focus on two people who are studies in dignity in the face of state repression. Jack Mazurek was arrested in Atlanta yesterday and charged with arson. These allegations stemmed from an attack last July on police motorcycles, which was rooted in the movement against Cop City. He is standing strong despite the serious charges against him, as …

You’re listening to Eco Report on WFHB for Friday, January 19th, 2024. Later in the program, we will listen to Part 3 by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze as he speaks with a homesteader and sustainability educator from Spencer, Indiana about her life journey in academia and as a nature lover from a young age. Also, WFHB Correspondent Elyse Perry reports …

An arctic blast struck Bloomington this past week, putting temperatures as low as -5 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chills below -10 degrees Fahrenheit. During this same time last year, the average temperature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill was around 30 degrees. Coming on the heels of 2023 being the warmest year on record, this cold spell is …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, October 23rd, 2023. In today’s feature report, local journalist Dave Askins with the B Square Bulletin reports on a Zoom audio glitch during the public comment portion of the Bloomington Board of Public Works meeting last Thursday. We turn to Dave Askins for more. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program. …

On today’s Kite Line, we are sharing more research conducted collectively by Micol Seigel’s Inside-Out class. Last spring, this course brought together students at Indiana University and students held by the Indiana Department of Corrections. This presentation is focused on the tension between surveillance and sousveillance, a term for when apparatuses like social media and smartphones are turned around and …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins of the B-Square Bulletin provides a report on a perceived lack of transparency between the mayor’s office and the city council. More in today’s feature report. That’s city employee Michael Large, with a major change to leaf collection in Bloomington this …