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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:39 — 80.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEste es el tercer episodio de una serie de programas en los que Javier Rosales nos ha compartido información de utilidad sobre la enfermedad del acoholismo y su experiencia. Desde que llegó de México a la edad de 15 años, muchos retos se le presentaron que, junto …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe turn our focus this week to a local struggle. Here in Bloomington Indiana, Monroe County Government is quickly moving forward with a proposal for a new $60+ million dollar jail to replace and expand the downtown jail. With little input from community members, consultants hired by …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 30th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Executive Director of the Indiana Recovery Alliance Nick Voyles about addiction and recovery and how to confront the stigmas associated with them. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | More In 2008, Monroe County moved to build a new, expanded jail -framed as a “justice campus” using humanitarian rhetoric.  In response, a diverse group of local residents founded an organization called Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC).  Here is how they later summarized their activities: “DMC’s framework included …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:30 — 24.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bloomington Common Council chambers are uncharacteristically full tonight. Area residents filled the council chambers, in support for Monroe County’s needle exchange program, The Indiana Recovery Alliance. IRA Founder and Director Chris Abert gave a statistically saturated presentation regarding the efficacy of syringe exchange programs. “You have …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:08 — 1.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe city of Bloomington is removing addresses of fatal overdoses from their data portal. The move comes after community members objected to a map on the city’s opioid data website – BloomingtonRevealed.com. That map displayed the addresses where fatal overdoses had occurred within city limits.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:15 — 20.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWomen’s reproductive rights advocates and religious conservatives traded arguments at the Monroe County Council’s Sophia Travis Grant distribution; County Council allocated $25,000 to the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District to distribute 30,000 reusable plastic shopping bag. FEATURE City officials met yesterday to address public demand to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:55 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRev. Forrest Gilmore said the Shalom Community Center’s organization is seeing a reduction in overdose deaths among clients, this year. Gilmore attributes the decline in opioid related deaths to expanded opioid addiction treatment options, and increased homelessness services. In particular, Gilmore pointed to the work of the Indiana Recovery …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:03 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe proposed moratorium on new addictions facilities in Bloomington city limits from Mayor John Hamilton’s office is misguided at best, according to the Indiana Recovery Alliance’s Founder and Director, Chris Abert. In this interview with WFHB News Director Wes Martin, Abert explains how the proposed policy lumps …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 21.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Republicans will consider changes to their party platform this weekend, including taking out language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman; The City of Bloomington announced its plans to pave and improve 20 miles of city-maintained streets in the coming months; Night time paving will …