Civic Conversations

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:33 — 4.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode, Betty Greenwell and Jim Allison talk about voting districts, representative districting, early voting. Prospective voters can visit indianavoters.in.gov to request an early voting application, or you can call or visit Election Central, in Bloomington. A Minute of Civics is produced by WFHB in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:27 — 4.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode, Ann Birch and George Hegeman talk about registering to vote, absentee voting and early voting. Prospective voters can visit indianavoters.in.gov to request an early voting application, or you can call or visit Election Central, in Bloomington. Absentee ballots must be received by October …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of The Bicentennial Journal, Scott Emery, a volunteer with the Monroe County History Center Cemetery Committee, tells the story of the Blair Cemetery, in Van Buren Township.  The cemetery consists of one headstone, that of one-year old Carlyle Blair, son of Marion and Hester …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:47 — 2.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode, Betty Greenwell and Jim Allison of the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County, talk about the (lack of) restrictions on gerrymandering voting districts. Greenwell and Allison map out and how voters can change the political landscape. A Minute of Civics is produced …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:38 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Boston Gazette coined the term “gerrymandering,” in 1812, after then-Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry. As League of Women Voter of Bloomington-Monroe County President Ann Birch explains, Gerry infamously signed a bill that redistricted the state, creating a political district map that was so curvy and complex that …