Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 21.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES In 2020, the oil, gas and coal industry spent over a $115 million lobbying Congress to ensure that it would obtain fossil fuel subsidies. Currently, the industry receives $15 billion of taxpayers’ money in direct federal subsidies every year. —Linda Greene More than 100 countries concluded …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:54 — 13.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis past Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump gave the annual State of the Union Address. Trump’s address highlighted the good economy, record low unemployment and called for a solution to the current immigration crisis. Voices In the Street’s Isaak Gonzalez went out to ask area listeners on …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 135.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePart One Indiana 9th Congressional Candidate Liz Watson joins hosts Amrita Myers Ph.D. and William Hosea. Watson speaks about her run as a Democrat against incumbent Republican Congressman Trey Hollingsworth. We also hear concessions speeches from Gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams in Georgia, and Andrew Gillum in Florida. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:00 — 11.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSo-called “Congressional Checks” are a misleading and deceptive attempt to get you to sign up for something, and robocalls from Social Security are dangerous fakes. Two scams with opposite techniques!
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:46 — 20.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCongress passed a bill to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic yesterday; The Indiana University Office of Parking Operations impounded over 150 electric scooters since the arrival of rental services such as Lime and Bird in Bloomington; A 600-bedroom apartment complex proposed for Bloomington’s east side continues to receive scrutiny …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:47 — 1.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe SUPPORT Act, passed the US Senate 98 to 1 yesterday. Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly spoke on the senate floor promoting provisions to the opioid crisis legislation. The incumbent Democratic Senator proposed three provisions to the bill, including a measure to expand the use of non-opioid alternatives …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:18 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFall Midterm elections take place in nine weeks. Election season culminates in the general election, on November 6. Voter registration throughout Indiana ends a month prior, on October 9. Early and absentee voting beginning the following day. Indiana law states that early and absentee voting must occur …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:42 — 1.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePresident Donald Trump will make a trip to Evansville, next week. The President is holding a rally next Thursday, to stump for Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence held a rally for Braun in May, in Elkhart. Braun beat out two Indiana …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:24 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCongress is currently reconciling the Senate and House of representatives respective Farm Bills, both of which won largely partisan support. Among the proposed changes are increases in requirements for Hoosiers to qualify for SNAP benefits – formerly called food stamps. In today’s Feature Report, WFHB Correspondent Jonah Chester …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04 — 746.3KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is praising the Department Of Justice for not defending Obama Care. Hill’s support for the decision comes after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated the DoJ will not defend the Affordable Care Act in a letter to Congress last week. Hill expressed …
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