News & Public Affairs

Host Dave Stewart welcomes Professor A. James Barnes, professor in Law and SPEA at Indiana University and specializes in Environmental Law and Public Policy. During the first segment, Professor Barnes tells how he came to Washington as an assistant to William Ruckelshaus, who became the first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, with Jim Barnes serving as chief of staff. …

A group of Oregon doctors are “Mad As Hell” about the current state of the U.S. healthcare system, or as some of them might say, the absence of one. Rubber gloves hit the road as the Mad As Hell doctors make their way across the country advocating for reform in their RV, the “CARE-a-Van”. They arrived in Bloomington late Saturday …

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens made a fortune during his forty years in the petroleum industry, and today he joked with a Bloomington audience that he’s ready to repent. Pickens recently spent sixty billion dollars on advertising to promote what he calls the Pickens Plan – a blueprint for energy independence for the United States. The ads helped him recruit …

Indiana University recently took government-mandated steps to reduce emissions from the campus coal plant, but students active in the Sierra Club say that’s not good enough and ask university officials to dump coal altogether. Sierra Club is targeting IU and ten other schools in an effort to get more colleges to transition to cleaner forms of energy. Assistant utilities director …

Democracy for Monroe County is a local grassroots political action committee allied with Democracy for America, the political action committee inspired by the Presidential campaign of Howard Dean. On Saturday DFMC organized a Walk and Rally for Health Care Reform. Activists began their march on the B-line Trail and converged on Showers Plaza in front of City Hall where an …

The Youth Services Bureau is a county shelter and counseling program that houses troubled teens either brought in by their parents or placed there by a juvenile court judge. Monroe County Commissioners want to move YSB into the county court system. Decarcerate Monroe County is an organization formed to advocate for justice solutions that work outside of the court system. …

Host Robert Shull asks Father Bob Keller, pastor of the St. Paul Catholic Center, about his decision to become a priest and what his life is like as a Dominican Friar here in Bloomington. Father Bob describes how the Catholic Church has changed over the years and the church’s modern views on same-sex marriages and civil marriages. The two of …

After accusing the Indiana Department of Transportation of hijacking city and county highway funds and holding both governments hostage, Mayor Mark Kruzan has rendered moot the issue of a “hardship buyout” of I-69 property at Tapp Road and State Road 37. Instead of succumbing to strongarm tactics and amending the local transportation plan to include the property as I-69 right-of-way, …

The City of Bloomington today commemorated the tragic events of September 11, 2001, with a ceremony held on Showers Plaza outside City Hall. Local officials and emergency responders spoke to the significance of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the country and our own community. In this WFHB radio exclusive, listen for the tolling …

Today the City of Bloomington is holding a second round of public workshops addressing the 10th Street Mobility Study. The East 10th Street corridor through campus has long been identified as a transportation challenge, and studies conducted as long ago as 1964 have recommended improvements to the area’s mobility for pedestrian as well as vehicular travel. There are several plans …