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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 19th, 2022. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of Disabulletin – a segment on disability and neurodiversity issues. Correspondent Abe Shapiro continues his coverage on a lawsuit against the rideshare company Lyft for the alleged lack of wheelchair accessible vehicles. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 18th, 2022. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from Big Talk – a one-on-one conversation with some of Bloomington’s most fascinating people – on WFHB. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison related news and announcements from the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Cynthia Roberts reported on a rally in Washington, D.C. over the weekend organized by the Poor People’s Campaign. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have the third installment of Cutting the Cost of Gas on …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, May 16th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News Director Kade Young speaks with Professor Jeannine Bell, an expert in policing and hate crimes at Indiana University, about the racially motivated killings of 10 Black residents in Buffalo on Saturday. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, March 15th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze concludes his conversation with Emily Hamilton, senior research fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project at George Mason University. Stay tuned to hear Part Five of the conversation in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, February 15th, 2022. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of a Few Minutes with the Mayor – a biweekly segment where we pose questions to Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton on community issues. More in the bottom half of our show. Also coming up, police officers in Owen County have …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 19th, 2022. Later in the program, the EPA recently announced that it will enforce pollution regulations onto Indiana’s coal fired power plants in order to stop groundwater contamination. WFHB Correspondent Nathaniel Weinzapfel has more in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have your weekly consumer-watchdog …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday December 22nd, 2021. Later in the program, Covid-19 cases are on the rise across the state as Indiana reported its first positive case involving the Omicron variant. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Log4J Mess on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB. But first, your Environmental …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. Later in the program, Monroe County Residents Against Annexation have begun the process to remonstrate, or formally challenge, Mayor John Hamilton’s annexation plan. More coming up in the bottom half of tonight’s show. Also coming up in the next half hour, host Richard Fish covers some of the most …

According to a recently completed study of incarceration and the local criminal justice system, Monroe County has uncovered a number of “critical issues” that “require urgent attention and remediation.”  Initiated in 2019, the “cornerstone-purpose of this study was twofold: 1) gain a clearer understanding of jail conditions and court related practices, and 2) obtain recommendations for improving incarceration and court- related …