New scooter company comes to town; Parents examine negative effects of technology in schools. FEATURE The American Friends Legislative Committee’s Anthony Wier speaks with News Director Wes Martin about the grim consequences inherent in the current push for new, “smaller” nuclear weapons. BETTER BEWARE Our weekly consumer watchdog segment gives tips on mitigating incidents of road rage. CREDITS Today’s headlines …

Welcome to the Feminism Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we have Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, feminist, playwright and Playwriting MFA at Indiana University’s Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance. Garvin speaks on her …

Join WFHB live from the Monroe County History Center on March 9th, at 11:00 am for Saturday’s Child, WFHB’s longest running remote broadcast—presenting singer/songwriter Rick LeDune. Listen live on your radio or be part of the audience with complimentary coffee, juice and bagels. Rick LeDune has performed around the world (okay…he was in the Army and found a guitar wherever …

Road Rage incidents are getting worse – hundreds of incidents are reported every year. Here is some urgent and important advice to help you avoid trouble, or deal with a nasty situation.

Taking a close, insider’s, look at Chicago’s industrial Southeast Side in the 1970’s and early 1980’s offers us lessons of a period brought forward to our current moment, when talking heads and politicians spout off about middle class values and middle class jobs and the way to make America great…again. What today’s show makes clear is that there’s no “middle” …

New hope kindled for hate crimes law in Indiana; Amanda Barge suspends her mayoral campaign in midst of sexual harrassment allegations; Former Monroe County employee indicted for child pornography; Ellettsville to declare eminent domain in flood mitigation effort. FEATURE City Council candidates Jean Capler, Vauhxx Booker, Matt Flaherty, Andy Ruff, and Jim Sims discuss issues of race and economics in …

Monroe County Commissioner and City of Bloomington Mayoral Candidate, Amanda Barge, announced  she will suspend her political campaign, this afternoon. The announcement comes after an Indiana Daily Student exposé – published late last night – released emails, texts, and recordings of the mayoral candidate allegedly sexually harassing a former county contractor. The IDS story detailed allegations that Barge sexually harassed …

Part One: Hosts Clarence Boone and Amrita Myers speak with Amber Skoby, executive director of the Bloomington Housing Authority, and William Hosea, chairman of its board of commissioners, about an initiative seeking Section 3 minority and women owned business enterprises to submit bids for over $5 million for renovations being made to current public housing communities. They also discuss, more …

Another guidance counselor at a Catholic High School in Indianapolis is being fired, after she was outed to the school’s administration. Lynne Starkey is the second counselor to be informed her contract will not be renewed for the next school year, after her marriage to a woman was outed to Roncalli High School’s administration. Starkey worked for Roncalli for 39 …

Morrison’s Appliances and Service underwrites the program. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Today the topic is tomatoes! Guest Curtis Cantwell Jackson of Renaissance Farms, who sells all varieties of tomatoes from exotic to garden varieties. Buddy Bill is back from being ill, and Don calls in as well. You’ll have to listen to the podcast, …