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Daily Local News – October 17, 2019

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In today’s segment we brought you news that Monroe County Council member Eric Spoonmore is urging community members to comment on a rate hike requested by Duke Energy. Monroe County Council member Shelli Yoder announced today she will resign her council position effective October 31st. Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton has announced he has invited The Bridge Initiative, an organization housed at Ohio State University, to help the City lead community engagement on racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of discrimination. The Monroe County Black Democratic Caucus will be hosting a panel discussion titled The Power of the Black Vote on Saturday, October 19th. This week, Economic and Sustainable Development Director Alex Crowley presented the City of Bloomington’s 2018 Sustainability Action Plan and the 2018 Greenhouse Gas Inventory in a public meeting at City Hall.

From the Indiana Environmental Reporter, we hear about environmental advocates moving to sue a steel mill company for multiple violations of the Clean Water Act in northern Indiana.

Credits:
Today’s headlines were written by Andrew McKearin, Sydney Foreman, and Sarah Vaughan, with contributions by Mia Beach and Ellen Tamura.
Our engineer is Sydney Foreman.
Out theme music is provided by Ben Lumsdaine, Scott Schmadeke, and Dani Graf.
Today’s anchors are Carolyn VandeWiele and Jordyn Jammer.

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