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Our opening song is “Cherokee” from Count Basie, featuring Buck Clayton, which is, I promise, oddly apropos for a show which centers on narco trafficking in East Asia. The music for this program features two men who likely had some measure of influence on each other’s future work: American Jazz Trumpeter Buck Clayton and Chinese scholar, composer and songwriter Li …

At least a half-dozen utilities have released plans to get to net-zero emissions, or close to it, by twenty fifty. Now a Michigan company has said that it will get to net-zero emissions by twenty forty, the fastest timetable of any major utility in the country. The Trump administration has formally revised a proposal that would significantly restrict the type …

Today’s show is a discussion of how seven million ordinary people are standing against the most powerful surveillance state on planet earth. Episode producer Sean Milligan talks to two activists who spent time in Hong Kong during the height of the protests in the summer of 2019. Facing eventual reunification with mainland China, the citizens of Hong Kong took to …

South Bend Mayor and Democrat Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg spoke at the Indiana University Auditorium, this afternoon. The two-term mayor used today’s campaign stop to broadly outline his foreign policy stance. Buttigieg was introduced by former 9th District Congressman (D-IN) Lee Hamilton. At today’s address, Buttigieg praised both Hamilton and former U.S. Senator (R-IN) Richard Lugar. Buttigieg’s campaign stop at …

Our opening song is “Lucky Day.” This is Judy Garland’s version from the London sessions of 1960. The first performance of the song was by Harry Richman in a 1926 Broadway revue. “Lucky Day” became a theme song for the 1940s NBC radio show Your Hit Parade which was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. Sponsoring radio and television shows and …

In this week’s episode of Eco Report, WFHB’s Tod Wicks and Kaylnn Huffman Brower report on a one hundred year history of flooding in the town of Ellettsville and China banning imports of recyclable material causing various U.S. cities to incinerate it. Also in this week’s news an update on the Gray Wolf population. All and more in this weekly …

A spate of robo-calls in Chinese have been plaguing our area code lately, and the whole robo-call problem is exploding. Here are the facts – and some things you can do about it. Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.

President Donald Trump will visit Indianapolis to speak at the annual Future Farmers of America FFA convention, on Saturday. The President is expected to give the keynote address at the 91st FFA Convention, in front of tens of thousands at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The FFA reportedly has over 600,000 members. The non-profit encourages agricultural and technical knowledge and …

City of Bloomington Public Works Director Adam Wason said international restrictions on recycling are being felt in local wallets. Wason said the city is in the process of renegotiating a recycling contract with Hoosier Disposal, which may cost the city more taxpayer dollars, due to international tariffs. International trade wars with China are effecting recycling abilities on the municipal level …

Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputies shot and killed a man this morning; As students in the Monroe County Community School Corporation go back to school tomorrow, they’re required to obtain Hepatitis A immunizations; The City of Bloomington Utilities department continues to work on removing mercury and asbestos at the decommissioned Griffy Lake treatment plant; The Utilities Service Board approved a $3 million …