Tag Archives: Michael Glab

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 31st, 2024. In today’s feature report, Big Talk producer Michael Glab speaks with Publisher of the Limestone Post Ron Eid and Board President Becky Hill about the state of local news, nonprofit journalism and what the future will look like for the online magazine. More in today’s feature report. Also coming …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. In today’s feature report, Big Talk producer Michael Glab speaks with Hannah Airress and Micol Seigel about their new business venture, Redbud Books. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Shopping Social Media on Better Beware – your weekly consumer watchdog segment on …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, February 28th, 2023. Later in the program, Big Talk producer Michael Glab speaks with 2023 mayoral candidate for the City of Bloomington, Kerry Thomson. Thomas has served as executive director for Indiana University’s Center for Rural Engagement since 2018. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 18th, 2022. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from Big Talk – a one-on-one conversation with some of Bloomington’s most fascinating people – on WFHB. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have some recent prison related news and announcements from the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 20th, 2021. Later in the program, Big Talk Producer Michael Glab speaks with music writer and author Stephen Deusner who recently wrote a book about the alternative Southern rock band, The Drive By Truckers. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment …

With temperatures falling below freezing as we approach mid-winter, the city has opted to evict the tent residents at Seminary Square. Almost simultaneously, Beacon, Inc. (formerly the Shalom Community Center) announced the opening of a new low-barrier shelter in a large commercial gym facility near Switchyard Park. Beacon’s executive director appeared on Big Talk in October; let’s listen to the …

They met nearly a half century ago on an anthropology dig. Since then, Kathy Schick and Nick Toth, now married 43 years, have spent their lives trying to understand human technology, adaptation, and evolution. The two founded The Stone Age Institute and they incorporate music into their efforts to bring bring their research findings to other scientists as well as …

On March 30 this year, WFHB partnered with several local businesses, the Ryder Magazine and Film series, the Burroughs Century, the Debs Foundation, and Indiana University, to bring Paul Buhle to Bloomington to talk about his new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs (drawn by Noah Van Sciver and published by Verso) and the necessity of utopian thinking. What better …

Senator Joe Donnelly stopped in Ellettsville this afternoon. The incumbent Democrat is up for re-election this Fall; A statewide law, concerning the identity of parents who surrendered their children for adoption, went into effect yesterday; The Indiana State Department of Health recorded a net increase in the number of abortion procedures carried out in the state; Indiana University alumni elected Donna Spears to …

Ross Gay, the award-winning, bestselling poet, is the teacher. Kacie Swierk, who relied on music to help get her through debilitating illness, is the student. Gay teaches creative writing in the Indiana University English Department. Swierk signed up for his course and found his unconventional teaching methods an unexpected help in making music. She hadn’t thought much about words through …