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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:27 — 24.4MB)Subscribe: RSSTonight on Disabulletin, updates on a Massachusetts case regarding whether parents can record their child’s Special Education Plan Meetings and congress discusses if a Massachusetts residential school may continue to provide a treatment widely condemned. Finally, an interview with Tim Crishon of Disability Rights Indiana on new changes impacting …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:46 — 45.1MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 18th, 2023. Later in the program, Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. Today, we continue looking into Indiana’s legislation that pertains …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:06 — 24.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. We are looking into Indiana’s legislation that pertains to education. This week, we look into House Enrolled Act 1608. During the 2023 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAnd now we return to the second part of our conversation between Micol Seigel and Amanda Hall. Last week, Hall talked to us about how her firsthand experience of incarceration led her to her current work in prisoner and re-entry support.  And now she talks through her …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:34 — 40.7MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, January 19th, 2023. Later in the program, the Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments on the state’s GOP-backed abortion ban earlier this afternoon. More in your Statehouse Roundup. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Civic Conversations – a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 47.3MB)Subscribe: RSSBloomingOUT tackles (heh) the controversial and harmful bill, HB1041, in the Indiana Statehouse. It has since passed the Housse and moves on to the Senate to be reviewed and hopefully die. Melanie Davis and Justin Robertson are hosting. Guests are Kit Malone – Legislative Strategist for the ACLU in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:05 — 13.9MB)Subscribe: RSSAccording to a recently completed study of incarceration and the local criminal justice system, Monroe County has uncovered a number of “critical issues” that “require urgent attention and remediation.”  Initiated in 2019, the “cornerstone-purpose of this study was twofold: 1) gain a clearer understanding of jail conditions and court related …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:15 — 7.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | More As the opioid crisis continues to effect communities across Indiana, the number of incarcerated individuals in county jails and state prisons has grown. In Monroe County, that means more prisoners in a facility built thirty years ago. Monroe County Sheriff Brad Swain said his office is …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:51 — 4.5MB) Subscribe: RSS | More On March 24, 2016, then-Governor Mike Pence signed into law House Enrolled Act 1337. The law introduced additional stipulations on abortion procedures throughout the state, including a measure which required women seeking an abortion to receive an ultrasound 18 hours before an abortion procedure. Two …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:20 — 19.5MB) Subscribe: RSS | More The Monroe County Community School Corporation is hosting a public forum tonight at 6 pm in Bloomington; Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton is proposing the hiring of five additional public safety officers to the Bloomington Police Department; Indiana governor Eric Holcomb is calling for a renewed …