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Why pay someone to haul away our recyclables when we can sell them and keep the money ourselves? That’s one reason the board of the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District voted on Thursday to give its blessing to district director Larry Barker to move forward on a partnership among the city, county, and IU for running a “materials recovery …

Senior Indiana Senator Richard Lugar was the guest speaker at todayís 2009 Federal Focus Luncheon, hosted by the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce. WFHB went on-location to document Lugarís remarks, and in the following excerpt we skip past his formal address and go straight to the audience Q and A, with a focus on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle …

On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, nuclear weapons make the threat of mass destruction frighteningly real – the world’s arsenal is capable of repeating the destruction at Hiroshima 400,000 times over. Last night, the Bloomington Peace Action Coalition and the Just Peace Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Church …

Jenna Peters-Golden visits Bloomington to talk about Philly Stands Up, a Philadelphia-based collective developing coordinated and grassroots mechanisms to confront sexual assault. Working alongside a sister organization that provides direct support to survivors of sexual assault, Philly Stands Up focuses on the perpetrators to hold them accountable to the survivors and challenge the perps on their behavior in order to …

Last week Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett proposed major changes in certification criteria for public school teachers and administrators in Indiana lowering the formal credentials that applicants for both types of positions would require, like a proposed cut in school administrator qualifications and requiring that teachers possess only a bachelorís degree in their field of expertise and not …

Thousands of Boy Scouts are in Bloomington this week for the elite Order of the Arrow conference, under fire from local Native Americans because of racial stereotyping and the exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Scout Executive of the Hoosier Trails Council in Bloomington Randy Brown on Friday defended the Order of the Arrow, saying that rather than …

People of all abilities and disabilities celebrated the grand opening of the Karst Farm Park Playscape this past Saturday. The Playscape is a fully inclusive play area, designed with universal accessibility in mind. The central feature of the Playscape is a water splash pad, with water wheelchairs. The grand opening event celebrated the completion of Phase 1 of the Playscape …

Bloomington city officials have launched a new monthly talk show to explore B-town news and events. The half-hour program is called ìEverybodyís Bloomingtonî, produced at the studios of our media partner CATS, Community Access Television Services. The latest episode features the two top figures in the development of Bloomingtonís B-Line Trail, mayor Mark Kruzan and parks and rec director Mick …

The courthouse lawn was the site today for yet another local rally for healthcare reform, but this one was different: each and every speaker is an elected government official. These local officials called on Indiana’s Congressional delegation to pass healthcare reform before going on recess. Rally organizers say Congress has the best opportunity in a generation to fix our broken …

Bloomington resident Alex Jarvis was once known as the drummer for some of our best local rock bands, but today Jarvis is an expert on solar energy. He recently visited our studio to talk about his work with the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, how solar energy works and how the average person can use it, and how the solar industry …