Public Affairs

On today’s edition of Bring It On!,  hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with Diana Daniels of the Lick Creek African American Settlement. These settlers were free citizens who fled racial persecution and increasingly restrictive laws for free blacks in their previous homes in North Carolina. Traveling with the Quakers offered some protection on their journey and the promise …

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we have part 2 of our interview with Richard Master, prominent businessman and producer of the new movie American Hospitals, Healing a Broken System. …

He held on to the dream for almost two full decades before WFHB went on the air. While he was living in a converted garage with no plumbing in 1975, Jeffrey Morris began making plans to start up a community radio station here in Bloomington. A revolving cast of friends and like-minded dreamers came and went as the years passed …

This is a rebroadcast from May 8, 2023. Chef Lee Rosser On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell welcome Chef Lee Rosser. In a recent Bloom Magazine article, Carmen Siering wrote that for more than 25 years, Lee Rosser was a professional wrestler—a showman with a flair for pageantry, storytelling, and bringing people together. …

A veteran of community radio as well as nonprofit fundraising, Brooke Turpin came to WFHB during the pandemic and has professionalized the station’s efforts to support and market itself. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Turpin worked for the grandmama of community radio, KPFA in Berkeley. The flagship of the Pacifica Network of 140 nonprofit, community radio …

We welcomed Miriam Northcutt-Bohmert, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, in May.  Professor Northcutt-Bohmert shared information from her research on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in our legal system.  In the podcast, Professor Northcutt-Bohmert talked about how our jail system has become the default repository for those with mental illness and substance abuse.  She shared how our Monroe County jails …

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Resilence Productions, of which Liz Mitchell is a founding member. Gladys DeVane and Danielle Bruce, her fellow co-founders, join her on today’s program. The mission of Resilience Productions is to educate, enlighten and engage the public regarding African Americans’ many unknown and un-celebrated …

June Taylor talks about feeding people at Community Kitchen, and not just the homeless – this Bloomington nonprofit also helps hungry kids, seniors on a fixed income, and anyone else on a tight budget. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together to build a strong, healthy and engaged community. You can learn …

He was named the City of Bloomington Utilities department director when John Hamilton took over as mayor in 2016. At the time, the city’s drinking water delivery system was under fire both locally and nationally for taste and disinfectant-level issues. Since then, under Vic Kelson’s leadership, the Utilities department has refined its water cleansing process. As Lake Monroe ages, the …

In this episode, Maryann Iaria talks about Monroe County Civic Theater, our community’s only all-volunteer nonprofit theater group. MCCT is about to launch their annual Shakespeare in the Park production and is currently accepting submissions for a fall series of one act-shows and shorter pieces. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together …