This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, October 19th, 2021. Later in the program, we have a Few Minutes with the Mayor – a weekly segment where we pose questions to Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton on community issues. Assistant News Director Noelle Herhusky-Schneider has more in the bottom half of tonight’s program. Also coming up in the next half …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, October 18th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News talked to social work students who protested the City of Bloomington’s National Conference on Police Social Work. More coming up in the bottom half of our show. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison related news and …
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This week, we hear from a friend and supporter of Jessica Reznicek, who was recently sentenced federal prison after she admitted to sabotaging the widely opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2017. In this episode, Monte tells Jessica’s story from her childhood influences to her experiences in the NoDAPL Movement, in solidarity with the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux. …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 14th, 2021. Later in the program, we have the October edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Our guests today are Simone Smith, the winning contestant in the League of Women Voters Brown County’s essay contest on …
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Welcome to the October edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. In today’s podcast, host Jim Allison speaks with Simone Smith, the winning contestant in the League of Women Voters Brown County’s essay contest on redistricting, and Shari Frank, the president of the League of Women …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. Later in the program, Monroe County Residents Against Annexation have begun the process to remonstrate, or formally challenge, Mayor John Hamilton’s annexation plan. More coming up in the bottom half of tonight’s show. Also coming up in the next half hour, host Richard Fish covers some of the most …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, October 12th, 2021. Later in the program, we will broadcast an excerpt from our public affairs program Bring It On, Indiana’s only weekly radio program committed to exploring the people, issues and events impacting the African-American community. Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with State Representative Ragen Hatcher, a Democrat from …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, October 11th. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Margaret Clements, Vice President of Monroe County Residents Against Annexation, about the remonstration process. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have an update on the 7 Oaks School and their compliance with the local …
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Our main story this week is a contribution from our friends at Perilous Chronicle. Perilous is an independent digital research and media project focused on prisons, and moments of protest, unrest, and repression inside them in the US and Canada. This week, Perilous Chronicle’s Ridley Seawood guides us through the The Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) at Moose Lake, with …
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HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter reviews the past and future of forests on state land. In the 1970s and 80s, Republican Indiana governors Orr and Bowen established three backcountry areas in state forests that would keep the backwoods intact and logging at bay. Today they are no longer safe from being logged. —Norm Holy A federal court in Los Angeles …
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