Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:46 — 49.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, January 29th, 2026. In today’s newscast, you’ll hear Bloomington State Representative Matt Pierce, frustrated that he could not get lawmakers to cover food benefits for low-income Hoosiers during the government shutdown. Learn how close some Hoosiers came to going hungry at …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, November 25th, 2025. That’s Kaley Smith from South Central Community Action Program. The government shutdown ended without an extension of healthcare tax credits, and Smith says local families are seeing their monthly premiums double or even triple. It’s open season on …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:53 — 10.0MB)Subscribe: RSSIt’s open enrollment season for healthcare, and the South Central Community Action Program is trying to help resource-constricted local residents navigate a system many find confusing. Kaley Smith is the agency’s health plan navigator. The recent government shutdown was a direct result of disagreement over the extension of Affordable …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, November 10th, 2025. In today’s newscast, local voices share what gives them hope amid the doom and gloom of the 24-hour news cycle. WFHB reporters hit the streets to find out what lifts you up later in the show in a …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. In today’s newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Catherine Terwilliger speaks with Julio Alonso, executive director of Hoosier Hills Food Bank, about how the government shutdown has impacted SNAP benefits in Monroe County. More in today’s feature report. Also coming …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:42 — 1.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency evicted around 1,000 people from the West Calumet Housing Complex, because of lead and arsenic contaminated soil. The Superfund site was formerly a US Smelting and Lead Refinery facility, and includes part of the former USS Lead facility. Areas nearby include commercial, municipal, and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:37 — 4.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor the past 33 days, the American government has been shutdown, as a result of President Trump’s desires for border wall funding. This marks the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Voices in The Street’s Isaak Gonzalez went out to ask area listeners about their thoughts on …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:05 — 64.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePete Buttigieg has thrown his hat in the ring for the 2020 presidential race; City of Bloomington and Monroe County officials approved the first expenditures of the local Food and Beverage Tax; The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission is asking for more information from two vendors, vying to oversee the redevelopment …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAn even scarier followup on last week’s column, plus some effects of the government shutdown, and a new word that means somebody may have power over you. “Pwned” rhymes with “owned.” Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:33 — 65.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced his proposed state budget today; Sen. (R-Indiana) Mike Braun proposed a bipartisan bill that would prevent members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown; The majority of Bloomington Common Council members voiced their support last night for designating the Maple Heights …
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