Indiana nursing home centers have seen higher numbers of COVID-19 cases in both staff and patients. According to a statewide total, Indiana has reported 4,086 positive tests and 876 deaths, including 461 new positive tests at nursing homes and 144 additional deaths of nursing home residents.  State Department of Health officials refused to release the number of coronavirus cases and …

Today I’m going to tell you a story. Once upon a time – like right now, this very minute – there was an investment adviser in Rochester, New York, named Christopher A. Parris. He was arrested and charged last January with a massive securities fraud. Court papers charge that Parris and his cronies discovered an investment firm which was about …

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the figure of the Virus demands our attention. Elizabeth Povinelli’s conceptual work on the Virus feels prescient. Povinelli is a critical theorist, filmmaker, and Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late settler liberalism that would support an anthropology of what …

In this podcast Don, Bill and Rich use ‘Zoom’ to record their program from the safety of their homes. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and producer is Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ executive producer is Kade Young

This week, we broadcast updates on a riot in Macon State Prison, and two calls from mothers of prisoners at Westville Correctional Facility. After a rebellion by prisoners on April 22, over a dozen prisoners have been moved to a new segregation unit and are being subjected to a variety of tortures and abuse. The two women on this week’s …

WFHB has been on the air for more than a quarter of a century, offering music, news, and conversation 24 hours a day to listeners in Bloomington and surrounding counties. Stashed here and there in the station’s Waldron Center headquarters are thousands of pieces of memorabilia: newspaper clippings, awards, magazine articles, proclamations, reel-to-reel audiotapes, videos of live performances and much …

We are back with more news this week: our thoughts about police brutality in Minnesota, we also talk about Christian Cooper’s work in lgbtq+ advocacy in comic books, and finally we discuss a transgender inmate who is pushing to be allowed to transition in prison.

A Report from Enrique Saenz of Indiana Environmental Reporter regarding requests from companies for relief from environmental restrictions as a result of COVID-19.

Northern Indiana Public Service’s plan to close five Indiana coal ash ponds at a power plant along Lake Michigan and move coal ash to a landfill has sparked concerns from environmental activists about how the dust kicked up by that project will be controlled. The Indiana of today has far fewer birds as compared to the millions of birds that …

The City of Bloomington has held a Hospital Reuse Committee since 2015. Over the years this group has worked with the city on the redevelopment of the current IU Health Bloomington Hospital. This group is made up of about 30 community members who have been recently joined by the architecture and urban planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, or SOM, …