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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, December 4th, 2023. In today’s feature report, local journalist Dave Askins with the B-Square Bulletin discusses the future of local news in his weekly segment on WFHB. More in today’s feature report. That’s Ximena Martinez, our city’s Latino Outreach Coordinator. Learn more about efforts to engage Bloomington’s growing Latino population later in …

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:20 PM. This month we interview Rep. Matt Pierce representing District 61 Bloomington in the Indiana legislature where he has served since 2002. We talk about health legislation being …

A new State Senate bill which seeks to expand child abuse victim protections went into effect on July 1. State Senator Mark Messmer told The Herald-Tribune that he wrote State Senate Bill 551 after a constituent shared his story. The constituent told Messmer he struggled to block a 40-year-old-man’s attempts to contact his 14-year-old daughter. Messmer said the man sent …

Two homeless men have died over the past two months in Bloomington; The Monroe County Community School Board wore red shirts to their Monday night meeting, showing solidarity with MCCSC educators and education advocates who demonstrated at the statehouse this week, for increased education funding, including better pay for teachers; Officials with the City of Bloomington are engaging financial advisers …

The Little 500 begins tomorrow, and authorities are encouraging those enjoying themselves this weekend, to take precautions; The Bloomington City Council is considering legislation regulating scooter use in the city. FEATURE Representatives Matt Pierce and Jeff Ellington updated the league of women voters on the state budget and education bills last weekend. WORD ON THE STREET Our weekly public opinion …

Rep. (D-Bloomington) Matt Pierce was on Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s Study Committee on Corrections and Criminal Code, which was directed to look into passing hate crimes legislation. Gov. Holcomb is expected to push Indiana’s Republican-dominated legislature to pass a hate crimes bill, during tonight’s State of the State address. Rep. Pierce speaks with News Director Wes Martin about Gov. Holcomb’s …

Today was Organization Day in the Indiana legislature, marking the first formal meeting of the State Senate and State House of Representatives since election day; The Monroe County Election Board reviewed 260 provisional ballots in a four-hour meeting, last Friday. Most ballots were rejected; The Richland Bean-Blossom School Board approved $5.2 million to build a connector between Edgewood Primary and …

State Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) toured logging areas of Yellowwood State Forest last week. Pierce says he hiked through the Back Country area, where a Department of Natural Resources contractor is removing 1,700 trees, with the Indiana Forest Alliance’s Dave Seastrom. Pierce says the Indiana DNR designated Yellowwood’s Back Country area back in the ‘80’s, in an effort to preserve …

An armed gunman was reported on IU’s campus yesterday afternoon; State Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) toured logging areas of Yellowwood State Forest last week, to evaluate the logging of the back country wilderness; A surveying and land-use contractor hired by the city of Bloomington to evaluate what to do with the IU Health downtown hospital has released its recommendations; Wain Martin, a …

After arguments in the Indiana Statehouse ended the legislature’s short session, without accomplishing Governor Eric Holcomb’s priority bills, Holcomb announced a special session of the legislature to convene in May. Representative Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) spoke with WFHB News Director Wes Martin about what voters can expect out of the May session. Pierce says Republicans have a super majority in the …