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Interchange – Voting for Revolution: Lenin At the Ballot Box

It’s become increasingly clear that the American Dream is dead.  Good riddance. Long ago Friedrich Engels identified economic mobility (said “dream” of wealth) in the US as a key barrier to class consciousness. Welcome to your waking hours, America. Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?” Marx, Engels, and Lenin insisted on the value …

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Daily Local News – February 26th, 2019

Ellettsville officials working to control flooding from Jack’s Defeat Creek; Criminal Arrests Double in Ellettsville; Senate bill curbs the teaching of creationism in schools; House Republican presents new bill opposing “partial birth abortion.” FEATURE News Director Wes Martin speaks with State Senator Mark Stoops as the Indiana legislature approaches the half way point of this year’s long legislative session. BICENTENNIAL …

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Bring It On – February 25, 2019

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PART ONE: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich speak with Wes Martin, News Director for WFHB, about State Senate Bill 12. This is a hate crimes bill, in which Republicans removed all references to race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation and other protected classes, on February 19, 2019. PART TWO: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich review with Shatoyia …

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Bill To Provide State Funded Firearms Training for Teachers

The Indiana House of Represenatives passed a bill last week which would provide state funded firearms training for teachers in Indiana schools.  House Bill 12-53 would only pertain to schools that allow teachers to carry firearms. Indiana law leaves it up to school boards to decide whether or not employees are permitted to carry firearms on school property. Seymour Republican Jim …

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Daily Local News – February 25th, 2019

Monroe County Commissioner responds to State of the City Address; House bill provides firearms training for teachers; Common Council allocates $800,000 in community development block grants; Monroe Convention Center expansion project poised to begin; Council approves stormwater fee increase. FEATURE Michael Glab talks with district city council candidate Kate Rosenbarger about her campaign goals on this week’s edition of Big …

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Local Live – THiN LiNES – February 20th, 2019

THiN LiNES is the peanut butter and jelly between fluttering pop songs and nostalgic rock. Their inspiration comes from bands like Blink 182, Pink Floyd, and Green Day. In this session, THiN LiNES performs 6 original “space rock” songs. Later this year they will be participating for the third time in the Bluebird’s Battle of the Bands. Track List: 1.) …

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Activate! – Penny Zufall: Spencer Pride Unity Store

Penny Zufall’s roots run deep in Owen County. She grew up and graduated from high school there in the 1960s during a time of nationwide cultural unrest. After spending some time in Bloomington and eventually retiring in 2005, she has settled back in Owen County and has discovered daily inspiration through her work as a volunteer for the Spencer Pride …

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Inside Outdoors – February 23, 2019

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Weather coming, lots of rain this weekend, time to start thinking about gardening, talk about tomatoes, caller agrees with problems with the tomato blight that has been happening in the past 5-6 years, ‘zombie’ deer meat, (chronic wasting disease or CWD), Boat show in Indianapolis, Hinkles Hamburgers ownder dies, DNR …

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Hola Bloomington-February 22, 2019

Locutora, Maria Auxi, entrevista a Adriana Garcia Croes, Psycoterapeuta Consultor Sistemico sobre el proceso migratorio  sobre los sentimientos opuestos que podemos sentir al imigrar a otro paiz. Host, Maria Auxi, interviews Adriana Garcia Croes, about the immigration opposite feelings that we may feel when immigrating to another country.

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February 22, 2019: Prison Poetics

First, we have updates on the Vaughn 17 and hunger strikes and noise demonstrations from immigrant detention centers around the country. After the news, we share a conversation with Phillip Roberts and Debra Des Vignes.  Des Vignes is the founder of the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, and Roberts participated in the project for almost a year. Roberts reads some of …

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