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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, November 28th, 2022. Later in the program, the Community Justice Response Committee continued their discussion of the proposed site for a new jail. More in today’s feature report. But first, your daily headlines: MCPL Board of Trustees Discuss Vital Program, Employee Health Benefits At the Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees meeting …

This week, we share the second installment of a talk by Dina Alves, an abolitionist researcher and scholar who is currently visiting the US from Brazil.  Her talk is simultaneously translated from Portuguese by Micol Seigel. In this feature, she talks about the findings of her interviews with women prisoners in Brazil. We hear examples of how Black women are …

The complex issues with Monroe County’s current jail, and the task of building a new jail has been looming over county officials’ heads for several years now. A criminal justice and incarceration study was commissioned by Monroe County in 2019 which detailed the problems with the current jail, notes Monroe County attorney Jeff Cockerill. “At that point in time, Did …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022. Later in the program, an update on the Owen-Putnam State Forest timber sale and future forest management from WFHB correspondents Noelle Herhusky-Schneider and Rowan Hesting. More in today’s feature report. OWEN-PUTNAM STATE FOREST UPDATE Up next, an update on the Owen-Putnam State Forest timber sale and future forest management …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, November 21st, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Kayan Tara reports on ongoing complications with rezoning the potential new jail. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced he will not seek re-election in 2023. Two Democratic candidates confirmed they are …

HEADLINES All stories by Norm Holy The Republic newspaper reports the Bartholomew County Plan Commission in a 5- 2 vote has approved changes submitted by the county commissioners to an ordinance regulating placement of solar fields. Despite strong opposition from the state’s own environmental and natural resource experts, and concerns from the Governor’s Office, lawmakers pushed through a bill last …

This week, we share the first part of a talk by Dina Alves. Alves is a Brazilian lawyer with a doctorate in Anthropology, and has been an anchor in the feminist, antiracist legal scene in São Paulo since 2009. She is currently visiting the US, and recently gave this talk, generously translated by Micol Seigel, here in Bloomington. In this …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, November 17th, 2022. Later in the program, The MCCSC school board unanimously approved a recommendation to purchase the former Herald-Times property for nearly 3 million dollars. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, Bring It On’s Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, November 16th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Abe Shapiro continues his ongoing report, Civil or Not: The Court Case of Talevski v. Marion and the Debate over a Private Right to Sue. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Pants on Fire on Better …

Featured Pet: Elsa at Morgan County Humane Society! Elsa is a Boxer mix, with an estimated age of about 1.5 years. She came to Morgan County Humane Society as a stray, but she knows some basic commands such as “sit”, “shake”, and “lay down”, so it is presumed that she had an owner in the past. While she enjoys being …