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Eco Report – February 13, 2020

Eco

The Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court. If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius was born in 1859, the son of Svante Gustaf Arrhenius and Carolina Christina …

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Firehouse Session – Sam Bush – 2/6/2020

Sam Bush was in Bloomington for a concert at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on February 6. Before the show he stopped by WFHB for a lively interview with Music Director Jim Manion, talking about his role in the foundation years of progressive bluegrass at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in the ’70s and the early days of his influential band New Grass …

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WFHB Local News – February 12th, 2019

In today’s feature report, Monroe County attorney Margie Rice and Deputy Mayor Mick Renneisen talk to WFHB about the County Convention Center expansion, as the city and the county continue to clash over the project. Bianca Pugliesi provides an update on the expansion. Your local headlines: The City of Bloomington spent nearly twenty times more for police overtime in 2019 …

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Edgewood Junior High School Hosts Reality Store Simulation

WFHB Correspondent Alex Dederer talks to Edgewood Junior High School Principal Jonathan Siegelin about a program intended to teach students about financial responsibility. BLOOMINGTON – Edgewood Junior High hosts Reality Store Simulation as an initiative to teach students how to budget and navigate the costs of life after school. Hosted by Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce’s The Success School, formerly …

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Interchange – The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery’s Lash (Air Date: 1/8/19)

This episode originally aired on January 8, 2019. In November 2016 today’s guest, Bruce Laurie, published an essay called ‘”Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image.’ This image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter,” who is turned away showing his …

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Bring It On! – February 10, 2020

Hosts William Hosea and Liz Mitchell spend the show with Daniel Conkle, the Emeritus Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, discussing the recent impeachment and acquittal of Donald J. Trump for impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. Professor Conkle has been a member of the faculty since 1983. He teaches constitutional …

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Inside Outdoors – Saturday February 8, 2020

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Guest host today is John Ward. Buddy Bill talks about the snow coming down that morning, and some stories of snows past in Bloomington. Bill talks about the old days at Buddy Bills Bait Barn when he sold only female crickets. Apparently he had a deal with Purdue University, where …

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Hola Bloomington – February 7, 2020

Locutora, Minerva Sosa, entrevista a una invitada muy especial Maria Isabel Mora.  Ella nos habla sobre sus experencias como emprendedora, madre soltera a mujer y autora de el libro La Semilla de la Vida.  La Semilla de la Vida nos trae un mensaje claro: a través de experiencias vividas ayudar a esas personas, mujeres y hombres que se encuentran solos y …

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February 7, 2020: Kites from Khalfani Malik Khaldun and Muti Ajamu-Osagboro

This week focuses on call-ins from two prisoners: Khalfani Malik Khaldun in Indiana, and Muti Ajamu-Osagboro in Pennsylvania. First, we hear from Muti. Muti Ajamu-Osagboro is a prisoner currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania. Muti was sentenced to life without parole as a teenager. Despite the fact that the US Supreme Court has decided that it is unconstitutional to sentence teenagers to …

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