Ball State Study says that Indiana’s housing market never fully recovered from the Great recession; Indiana Senate passes bill further restricting annexation by municipal governments; Ellettsville wracked by flooding; Bloomington Transit to receive an additional nine million dollars in funding for 2019. FEATURE Indiana Recovery Alliance Director Chris Abert announces plans to step down from the organization he founded. Abert …

The Town of Ellettsville has a 100 year history of flooding. At the town council’s meeting yesterday, Fire Chief Mike Cornman said heavy rains and flash flooding left no way in or out of the town, last Thursday afternoon. The town is working with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management on a flood study. Chandler Funeral Home Director Ron Wayt …

The public school exists to make automatons and to reproduce class hierarchies and authoritarian power dynamics. How different is 2019 from 1906 when Emma Goldman was writing in “The Child and Its Enemies” that schools drive children to become foreign to themselves and to each other, arranged into files, classified, and numbered with quality giving way to quantity. And we …

PART ONE: Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with Maqube Reese and James Sanders, who present an overview of the annual State of the Black Community address. Maqube Reese is the Chair of Black History Month, and James Sanders is the Black History Month Kick-Off Chair. PART TWO: Hosts Clarence Boone and William discuss Carmen Seiring’s article in Bloom …

Monroe County Emergency Management encourages area residents to file storm damage reports; Candidates are lining up to run in the May Primary for local municipal elections; Election board receives letter from Ellettsville officials requesting a single polling site; Monroe County Community School Corporation is the largest tax beneficiary in Monroe County. FEATURE Michael Glab talks with veteran area journalist Mike …

Hoot Von Woot is the husband/wife team of George Napier (vocals, guitar, ukulele and keyboard) and Megan Napier (vocals and percussion).  George says he mostly writes “ditties” but people enjoy them, and, surprisingly, they seem to have meaning to a lot of people.  He says he writes music to make people happy.  George was a road manager for Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn …

Christy Langley is a self-professed life-long learner and an advocate for children. She had thought for some time how she could best support children in the community through service and finally found her match in the Court Appointed Special Advocates Program. As a CASA she is able to learn more about the juvenile court system and what services are available …

Hosts, Maria Auxi and Carlos Bakota, interview our guest Juanita from El Centro Comunal Latino about services offered such as: Tutoring services for children, Legal Clinics, Summer Camp for active children among other opportunities. Locutores, Maria Auxi y Carlos Bakota, entrevistan a invitada Juanita del Centro Comunal Latino sobre los servicios que ofrece como:  Tutoria para niños/as, clinicas legales, campamento …

This week, we share two different reflections on time inside, focusing on how prison interrupts life, education, and development. The first is the conclusion of Chantal’s account of her weeks inside a French immigrant retention center after her arrest during Yellow Vest clashes in Paris. She describes her and other prisoners’ efforts to pass the time and take care of …

On this episode of BloomingOUT, we have Caylee Parrish, a local 22-year old who is here to talk about personal experiences of gender identity, sexuality, and what it is like being someone who is gender non-conforming. Melanie also discuses some recent pending legislation regarding LGBT+ rights: SENATE BILL No. 12 Synopsis: Bias motivated crimes. Makes it an aggravating circumstance (for …