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Daily Local News – February 12, 2019

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:40 — 70.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBall State Study says that Indiana’s housing market never fully recovered from the Great recession; Indiana Senate passes bill further restricting annexation by municipal governments; Ellettsville wracked by flooding; Bloomington Transit to receive an additional nine million dollars in funding for 2019. FEATURE Indiana Recovery Alliance Director …

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Fatal Overdoses Decrease in Monroe County, Rise Elsewhere Across State

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:55 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRev. Forrest Gilmore said the Shalom Community Center’s organization is seeing a reduction in overdose deaths among clients, this year. Gilmore attributes the decline in opioid related deaths to expanded opioid addiction treatment options, and increased homelessness services. In particular, Gilmore pointed to the work of the Indiana Recovery …

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Daily Local News – June 21, 2018

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:48 — 21.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana will be seeing a one-cent-per-gallon gas tax increase, starting on July 1; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb met with Vice President Pence in Washington D.C., yesterday;  Bloomington’s Second Street overpass will be opened to four lanes of traffic this weekend, for the Monroe County Fair; The Bloomington …

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Daily Local News – May 17, 2018

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:57 — 20.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe U.S. Senate voted to uphold net neutrality yesterday; Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union file a lawsuit against the state of Indiana; A fungal disease lethal to snakes is found in southern Indiana;  The Monroe County Community School Corporation is considering implementing a three-year …

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Marion County Declares Hep-C Public Health Emergency

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:34 — 6.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The Marion County Health Department, which serves Indianapolis, announced a Hepatitis C Health emergency today. The Health Department is looking at putting in place a syringe exchange program to combat the spread of Hepatitis C, which kills more americans than any other infectious disease, according to …

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Daily Local News – December 26, 2017

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:08 — 25.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis retrospective edition of the Daily Local News highlights some of our best reporting from 2017. We’ll hear from IU Foundation President Dan Smith about the Foundation’s offshoring of millions of dollars in the Cayman Islands; we’ll listen to IU students, as they protest the visitation of …

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