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First, Bloomington’s near Westside district was granted historic conservation. Historic Preservation Program Manager Connor Herterich spoke at the December fourth city council meeting. He said conservation places three restrictions on homeowners. Monroe County Food and Beverage Tax Advisory Board postponed additional funding approval on December Third for a convention center parking garage. Controller Jeff Underwood requested using approximately 2 million …

A local chapter of the environmental protest group, Extinction Rebellion, has three demands for lawmakers to ensure carbon emissions drop to net zero within the next six years. WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner discusses the Extinction Rebellion organization with the founding XR Bloomington members. The Bloomington chapter of the Extinction Rebellion Organization began in the early summer of 2019. The group …

In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these two situations. We speak with Forest Gilmore, the director of the Shalom Center here in Bloomington. Forest talks about various barriers that both people who experience homelessness and those who have been incarcerated face. We have conversations with …

Police arrested a third suspect today in an apparent robbery that ended in the killing of a 26-year-old Bloomington woman; Five Indiana counties have established syringe exchange programs (SEP), following a change in Indiana law last year; A preliminary plan for reconstructing existing roadways and intersections as part of a Sample Road connection project have been submitted by Butler, Fairman …