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Online pothole and road hazard reporting is now available on the Monroe County website. The service has been available for over a week, and Public Works Director Lisa Ridge said the response has been “enormous.” The new online pothole reporting form is for Monroe County roads only. Ridge said the online reports are emailed directly to the county’s engineering department.

Inside Outdoors INFO 3-2-19 Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Snow coming tomorrow, Sunday 2-3-19! March is time to catch Crappie on Lake Monroe, also a probably the best time of year to catch a big bass, too. Talk about the forests in Indiana, caller from Brown county complains about the downing of trees at the …

State lawmakers are changing the rules for lending practices. Senate Bill 613 passed through the state senate last night, the last day for bills to be brought up in the State Senate or the State House of Representatives. Current Indiana law limits lenders to a 36 percent annual interest rate on loans under $2,000, with loans over that amount having …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Weather coming, lots of rain this weekend, time to start thinking about gardening, talk about tomatoes, caller agrees with problems with the tomato blight that has been happening in the past 5-6 years, ‘zombie’ deer meat, (chronic wasting disease or CWD), Boat show in Indianapolis, Hinkles Hamburgers ownder dies, DNR …

First, we have updates on the Vaughn 17 and hunger strikes and noise demonstrations from immigrant detention centers around the country. After the news, we share a conversation with Phillip Roberts and Debra Des Vignes.  Des Vignes is the founder of the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, and Roberts participated in the project for almost a year. Roberts reads some of …

State Senate Republicans passed an amendment to Indiana’s leading Hate Crimes Bill, yesterday evening. Republican State Senators voted to pass an amendment to Senate Bill 12, which deleted two-thirds of the proposed hate crimes bill; The original 21 page document was cut down to just seven pages, after the State Senate Republicans voted to pass an amendment gutting the bill. …

Area service providers, including the Hoosier Hills Food Bank, are stocking up in order to cover the so-called SNAP Gap, following the federal government shutdown; The City of Bloomington began an extensive survey of municipal trees, last week; Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton will give his annual State of the City Address, on Thursday night; The Indiana House of Representatives passed a preliminary state …

This week is an interview with Samantha Johnson, from No New Jails in Brooklyn, New York. As we reported recently, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn recently was the target of large scale demonstrations, after prisoners expressed to their loved ones on the outside that they were being denied basic human needs such as heat, fresh food, and running water. …

This week, we share two different reflections on time inside, focusing on how prison interrupts life, education, and development. The first is the conclusion of Chantal’s account of her weeks inside a French immigrant retention center after her arrest during Yellow Vest clashes in Paris. She describes her and other prisoners’ efforts to pass the time and take care of …

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky is consolidating with Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands. Lynne Bunch is the Vice President for Patient Services for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. Bunch said the partnership will allow PPINK better access to funding, expertise and services. In a press release on February 1, PPINK stated they’ve been …