Welcome to the April edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters. Our episode today revolves around tribalism. Our guest, Marjorie Hershey, professor of political science at Indiana University, walks through the issue of tribalism with our host, Jim Allison. According to her university bio, Professor Hershey’s research and teaching interests focus …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 5th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Sydney Foreman interviews Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton in our weekly segment – A Few Minutes with the Mayor. A Few Minutes with the Mayor features listener-posed questions to Mayor Hamilton on community issues. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in our …
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Welcome to the latest installment of Civic Conversations, a podcast brought to you in collaboration with the League of Women Voters Bloomington-Monroe County and WFHB. In today’s program, host Jim Allison speaks with Sheila Kennedy, Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI and former executive director of the Indiana chapter of ACLU. Professor Kennedy discusses the …
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We present this month’s edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast brought to you by the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County in collaboration with the WFHB Local News. Today’s episode focuses on a review of the 2020 election. You will hear host Jim Allison’s interview with Julia Vaughn, Policy Director for Common Cause Indiana. Groups like …
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Next Tuesday is election day. If you are mailing in a ballot, time is running out! If you plan to vote in person, make sure you know where to go. Find out where to go online at Indianavoters.in.org. Listen for more voting information.
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Our opening song is “Ezz-thetic,” from the 1961 release Ezz-thetics by George Russell. In the conversation to come we’ll make reference to the American modernist poet Ezra Pound, and what the literary scholar Hugh Kenner termed “The Pound Era” in his 1971 book. Pound is perhaps best known for the poetic movement he named Imagism and for his endlessly expanding …
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Today we speak with anarchist author Kristian Williams about his interest in George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, seemingly quite disparate thinkers to attract one’s admiration. But it turns out that Williams isn’t the first anarchist to be interested in them. It also turns out that Orwell himself admired Wilde, writing in a letter to a friend that he’d always been …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 6th, 2020. Later in the program, local resident and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, Vauhxx Booker, a black man, was physically assaulted by a group of white men at Lake Monroe on Saturday. In today’s program, you will hear from Booker’s attorney, Katharine Liell. Also coming up in …
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In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Monroe County will be reducing precinct voting locations with ideas to allow younger volunteers to assist in front desk election. Braydyn explains how the possibility of voting sites will look different in this year’s primary election. The 2020 Indiana Primary will look different for many Hoosiers this year in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. …
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On Wednesday night, the ninth Democratic presidential debate took place in Las Vegas, Nevada with Democratic candidates for president: Sanders, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Warren, and Buttigieg. The debate showed the varying relationships on the stage, especially between Bloomberg and his fellow candidates. The former New York City Mayor was the only newcomer on the stage and faced lots of heat from …
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