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Committee set to hear ‘loansharking’ bill; Commissioner Barge resigns amidst harassment allegations; voter registration for May primary ends today; local political action group endorses Hamilton campaign. FEATURE Bloomington City Council candidate Matt Flaherty talks with Michael Glab on this week’s edition of Big Talk Extra. ACTIVATE Tracy Young talks about her volunteer work with the American Red Cross Disaster Services. …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to delay implementing its own rules, which would grant recipients of payday loans greater protections. The CFPB is looking to push the compliance date of the new rules back to August, 2019. The rules would require lenders to assess a borrower’s ability to repay their loan and still meet their financial obligations. It …

Indiana Republicans will consider changes to their party platform this weekend, including taking out language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman; The City of Bloomington announced its plans to pave and improve 20 miles of city-maintained streets in the coming months; Night time paving will begin on the southern portion of the I-69 construction zone tonight; New measures by …

Federal intelligence services believe Russian government employees probed state voter registration rolls for possible weaknesses, in 2016; Activists will protest two bills at the Indianapolis statehouse tomorrow; The Bloomington Rail Trail will be closed to the public until Friday for maintenance. FEATURE WFHB Correspondent Michael Glab speaks with war correspondent Doug Wissing about his latest book on Afghanistan, on today’s Big Talk …

A bill that would allow for higher interest rates on payday loans died in the legislature yesterday.    Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb is likely to sign a bill which would charge drug dealers with murder if their buyer overdoses.     The Monroe County Health Department has received twenty five hundred dollars to bolster its local medical reserve corps.     Graduation rates …

Jurors convicted an Indianapolis man in connection with the sexual assaults of two IU students and a shootout with a Bloomington Police officer back in 2014; The Indiana legislature is considering passage of a bill that would expand the rates and lending practices for so-called payday loans; The Indiana Senate Environmental Affairs Committee voted down a measure that would’ve limited …

A proposed revision to federal rules is poised to bring big changes to Indiana’s payday loan industry; The Indiana Limestone Symposium begins this week at the Bybee Stone Company; The City  of Bloomington Utilities (CBU) begins its regular summer fire hydrant flushing today; Construction began three weeks ago on a new trail in Bloomington; The Indiana Archives and Records Administration …