WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Bloomington residents near the Grimes and Walnut Street sewer replacement project will have to bear another month of night time drilling. Among the proposed changes in a new traffic plan for Bloomington is an idea to replace the existing north and south one ways of Walnut and College, in downtown Bloomington, with two-way streets. The city of Bloomington is removing addresses of fatal overdoses from their data portal. Nancy Richman, Executive Director for Volunteers in Medicine, shared success stories with County Commissioners on Wednesday, as part of her annual report.
FEATURE: New Farm Bill will affect SNAP benefits. Congress is currently reconciling the Senate and House of representatives respective Farm Bills, both of which won largely partisan support. Among the proposed changes are increases in requirements for Hoosiers to qualify for SNAP benefits – formerly called food stamps. In today’s Feature Report, WFHB Correspondent Jonah Chester takes us through what the proposed changes could bring to Hoosiers, particularly when it comes to new regulations to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits.
VOICES IN THE STREET: WFHB asks area residents what they think about President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick: Brett Kavanaugh.
CREDITS:
Today’s Anchors: Ron Bronson and Carolyn VandeWiele.
Today’s headlines were written by Wes Martin, and Andrew McKearin, along with Sarah Vaughan for CATSweek, a partnership with Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Jonah Chester.
Voices in the Street was produced by Jenna Jankowski,
Our engineer today is Dan Withered.
Our theme music is provided by Ben Lumsdaine, Scott Schmadeke, and Dani Graf.
Executive Producer is Wes Martin.
