Tag Archives: News in Monroe County

Eco Report – August 29, 2025

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:14 — 41.6MB)Subscribe: RSSIn today’s feature report, Max Jancich and Ashton Harper, in Part 2, talk with Dr. Thomas Butts from Purdue University about herbicides and how farms manage weeds. And now for your environmental reports: The US Forest Service is taking steps to enact a controversial plan to harvest 38,000 acres …

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WFHB Local News – August 14th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, August 14th, 2025. In today’s newscast, we have Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, Youth …

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WFHB Local News – August 13th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. In today’s feature report, we hear Part 3 with WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich as he speaks with Greg Olsen, Field Projects Director at the Sand County Foundation. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …

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WFHB Local News – August 12th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. In today’s newscast, Indiana Senate Democrats held a press conference last week denouncing the GOP push to redistrict Indiana. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a …

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WFHB Local News – August 7th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:04 — 41.4MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, August 7th, 2025. In today’s newscast, we have Government.exe, a show that explains what’s happening in state government from WFHB’s Youth Radio. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have a rundown of all …

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WFHB Local News – August 5th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:42 — 42.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 5th, 2025. In today’s newscast, the Bloomington City Council deliberated on unsafe conditions at the affordable housing development Union at Crescent. More in today’s headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, the latest edition of Lil Bub’s Lil …

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WFHB Local News – July 24th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 24th, 2025. In today’s newscast, WFHB News speaks with two members of Care Not Cages who are partnering up with almost a dozen organizations to urge county leadership to not move forward with constructing a new jail. More in today’s …

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Local Groups Urge County Leaders to Shift Focus from New Jail to Renovation

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:10 — 18.2MB)Subscribe: RSSAccording to Care Not Cages, the county is at a crossroads when it comes to funding the criminal legal system. Recent legislation passed by the Indiana Statehouse makes the current plan for financing a new jail obsolete. Care Not Cages, New Leaf-New Life, the Indiana Recovery Alliance and nine …

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WFHB Local News – July 15th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:10 — 44.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 15th, 2025. In today’s newscast, you’ll hear Michael Pezzuto, co-creator of “The Reef” house show venue. Bloomington may have a reputation as a party town, but some young people within the local music scene are living a “straight-edge” lifestyle. Learn …

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WFHB Local News – July 7th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 7th, 2025. In today’s newscast, you will hear Paul Quigley on using AI to pilot a race car. A team of Bloomington students is already doing it, and later this month they take their car to California to race against …

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