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Welcome to the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Rasha Kamhawy dives into an interview with Bloomington Black Lives Matter. Meanwhile, Katrine Bruner provides a recap of the recently passed smoking age restriction. But first, your local headlines. Bloomington Fourth Street parking garage construction delays are costing the city $2,000 a week …

Administrators in Indianapolis said the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC program, have not announced any change in their assistance distribution, and do not expect a funding shortage until into February; A bipartisan bill in Congress would make the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore a National Park; Hundreds of women marched in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend, braving …

The Indiana Chapter of the Women’s March on Washington is organizing its third annual march, which will take place this Saturday in downtown Indianapolis. The march starts at 1 p.m. at Monument Circle and continues to the American Legion Mall. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center will host a reproductive rights advocacy training session at 10 …

A West Lafayette church found threats and hate speech on banners hung outside its fence this weekend. The spray-painted banners, outside of the Tippecanoe County Universalist Church, threatened to revisit the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Orlando. They also contained frequent use of derogatory slurs against homosexuals, African-Americans, and Hispanics. The banners were found after the church joined with …

Over 100 women’s rights advocates marched on the Monroe County Courthouse Square in downtown Bloomington over the weekend. FEATURE The Federal government is scheduled to reopen tomorrow, after the Senate moved forward on a spending bill earlier today. At the heart of the shutdown is an ongoing debate over immigration, specifically the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, …

A weekend of anti-Trump activities kicked off in Bloomington this past Friday, featuring workshops workshops, marches, and a standing-room-only rally at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater; A separate group of anti-Trump protesters took to the streets of Bloomington later on Friday night; Global protests continued this past Saturday, including a women’s rally in Indianapolis that was attended by many local residents. FEATURE …

On January 21, 2017 an estimated 200,000 people will convene in Washington to march in assertion that women’s rights are human rights. The March, convened in the wake of the election of President-elect Trump, is providing an outlet for many that view Trump’s election as an assault on human rights. Case in point, McKenzie Goodrich, a local business owner who …