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Maqube Reese has been a symbol for the Bloomington community for years, from her days at Stepping Stones, to the seat at city hall promoting Black History Month, to currently working at I.U.’s Kelley School of Business as the assistant director of diversity initiatives.  Last Saturday, she was given the city of Bloomington’s Outstanding Black Leaders of Tomorrow award at …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Don returned from Florida with discussions about wildlife management areas, and the high cost of camping now, caller talks about birds coming back to Indiana, spring seems to be arriving early, solar power and camping, caller talks about some issues concerning new sub-standard buildings on the west side near 17th …

The Indiana legislature is currently debating SB 449, which would expand the range of situations that would send children to adult court and adult prison.  As of 2017-2018, 69% of the cases where children were sent to adult court involved African American youth.  Under the proposed bill, children as young as twelve could be sent to adult prisons for certain …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Guest host today is John Ward. ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and producer is Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ executive producer is Kade Young

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Guest host today is John Ward. ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and producer is Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ executive producer is Kade Young

When most people think of Indiana’s landscape they picture cornfields and flat terrain. Surprisingly, Indiana used to be almost completely covered with forests and wildlife with a limited space filled by bare hills. Indiana’s forest cover pre-settlement is estimated to be around 85%. By the early 1900s it was at 7%. Though the urban population density has increased more and …

In this week’s episode, we start off with a call for action from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. JLS is calling for a new set of actions from August 21- September 9, 2020. After we hear from them, we share the story of Nick, a long-time Bloomingtonian who passed through both private prisons and those run by the Indiana Department of Corrections. …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Guest host today is John Ward. Buddy Bill talks about the snow coming down that morning, and some stories of snows past in Bloomington. Bill talks about the old days at Buddy Bills Bait Barn when he sold only female crickets. Apparently he had a deal with Purdue University, where …

This week focuses on call-ins from two prisoners: Khalfani Malik Khaldun in Indiana, and Muti Ajamu-Osagboro in Pennsylvania. First, we hear from Muti. Muti Ajamu-Osagboro is a prisoner currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania. Muti was sentenced to life without parole as a teenager. Despite the fact that the US Supreme Court has decided that it is unconstitutional to sentence teenagers to …

Just one month into the year 2020, major steps have been taken in the Indiana Statehouse, with hundreds of bills filed and state legislative members introducing more to come. A majority of the new bills are to support the state’s environment and help encourage Hoosiers to improve Indiana’s carbon footprint and safety with health issues that we are facing. One …