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Daily Local News – July 8, 2019

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Former WFHB volunteer Casey Kuhn receives national Edward R Murrow award for her coverage of the Arizona Teacher Strike; Governor’s Next Level Teacher Compensation Commission seeks public input competitive teacher pay; IDEM issues Air Quality Action alert, warns of high ozone levels tomorrow.

FEATURE
Raised in Bagdad by native Iraqi parents, Zaineb & Faisal Istrabadi have become Bloomington fixtures since their family’s arrival here some 50 years ago. Faisal was Iraq’s Ambassador to the United Nations after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and now serves as a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. Zaineb teaches the Arabic language at IU. Zaineb joined host Michael Glab on the July Fourth edition of Big Talk. Their conversation continues on today’s edition of Big Talk Extra.

CREDITS
Today’s headlines were written by Macy Evans and Sarah Vaughan.
Our feature was produced by Michael Glab.
Activate! is produced by Lucy Schaich from the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network.
Our engineer is Sarah Vaughn.
Our theme music is provided by Ben Lumsdaine, Scott Schmadeke, and Dani Graf.
Executive producer is Kyrie Greenberg.
Today’s anchors are Jake Jacobson and Kim Hahn.

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