Tag Archives: Civic Conversations

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 25th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondents Kate Chmielewski and Annika Harshbarger will be live in the studio discussing how you can support the station during our Spring Fund Drive. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Kay Weinberg …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, February 15th, 2024. This month, the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County welcomes Karen Jepson-Innes, WonderLab executive director, and Kelly Debikey, their education director, to share with our audience the many exciting opportunities that WonderLab Museum of Science Health and Technology offers to Bloomington residents. More in the latest …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, February 1st, 2024. Later in the program, we have Part Two of the latest edition of Prescription for Healthcare, where we welcomed Dr. Michael Hicks, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business Research and Director of the Center for Business & Economic Research at Ball State University. More in the bottom half of …

This month, we welcomed Dr. Michael Hicks, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business Research and Director of Center Business Economic Research at Ball State University. His work has appeared not only in scholarly sources but also in such publications and media as Rolling Stone, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, NPR, and Fox Business News. Dr. Hicks joined us …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, January 25th, 2024. Later in the program, we have Civic Conversations – a segment in collaboration between the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County and WFHB. Today, we welcome Dr. Michael Hicks, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business Research and Director of the Center of Business Economic Research at …

In September’s Civic Conversation podcast, Canopy Bloomington’s Forestry Director Ava Hartman joins the podcast to talk about Bloomington’s tree canopy and its benefits to the Bloomington community.  Among the many benefits, according to Hartman, are their ability to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in tree tissue.  Hartman also discussed the City of Bloomington’s …

This month, we welcome Grier Carson, Library Director of the Monroe County Public Library, to discuss the library as a civic institution.  Carson talked to our host, Jim Allison, about the library’s role in a democracy and how it protects intellectual freedom and access to information for everyone without regard to their social status, gender, race, or religion.  The library …

This month, we welcomed Mary Morgan, director of housing security, with Heading Home, South Central Indiana. In the podcast, Mary and Jim discuss what housing looks like in Bloomington and Monroe County as it buttresses housing challenges in the US. Bloomington faces a shortage of single-family homes while also seeing a surge in rental properties being built. Nationwide, Morgan said, society …

We welcomed Miriam Northcutt-Bohmert, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, in May.  Professor Northcutt-Bohmert shared information from her research on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in our legal system.  In the podcast, Professor Northcutt-Bohmert talked about how our jail system has become the default repository for those with mental illness and substance abuse.  She shared how our Monroe County jails …

This month our host, Jim Allison, talked to Julie Duhon and Haddie Katz, co-founders of the Tandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House, which recently opened in Bloomington. Tandem is now offering to change that position by offering birthing services, but preconception support, and prenatal and post-natal care.  It also provides gynecological services to all women of all ages. Lactation care is also provided.  …