Last Thursday, a lone gunman killed 8 people and injured several others in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. Over the past year, leading up to this tragedy, multiple concerns were raised regarding the shooter’s mental health. These concerns were so significant that at one point in March of 2020, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department seized a …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 22nd, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Max Campbell reports on last week’s mass shooting in Indianapolis. He speaks with Indiana University Professor and former Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bill Helmke and President of the Sikh Student Association Ravleen Kaur Ahuja. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, April 21st, 2021. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from our public affairs program, Interchange, a show that questions how we understand ourselves. Today’s excerpt comes from last week’s show, “Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan with Kerri Greenidge.” More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, April 20th, 2021. Later in the program, we turn to WFHB Correspondent Aaron Comforty, for an interview with Dave Askins, the founder and writer for the B Square Beacon. Askins spoke about the Bloomington Plan Commission vote last month to recommend that the City Council adopt the new zoning changes in the …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 15th, 2021. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of Civic Conversations – our podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Today’s episode covers tribalism with Professor of Political Science Marjorie Hershey at Indiana University. More coming up in today’s feature …
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Welcome to the April edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters. Our episode today revolves around tribalism. Our guest, Marjorie Hershey, professor of political science at Indiana University, walks through the issue of tribalism with our host, Jim Allison. According to her university bio, Professor Hershey’s research and teaching interests focus …
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In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balagoon, an Indiana political prisoner who has been locked up for almost 43 years, 31 of those in isolation. In this episode, he first describes the context of the 1985 uprising in the Indiana reformatory, now called …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 5th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Sydney Foreman interviews Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton in our weekly segment – A Few Minutes with the Mayor. A Few Minutes with the Mayor features listener-posed questions to Mayor Hamilton on community issues. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in our …
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Up first, we have a comprehensive overview of prisoner protests compiled by Perilous Chronicle, who are collecting information about the many prison uprisings and disturbances now occurring regularly. They will be sharing these updates with us each month. For our feature this week, we share the first part of a conversation with Balagoon, an Indiana political prisoner who has been …
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This week we’re going over a whole host of news items from the last week with a specific focus on legislation and people coming hot and heavy at us. Yesterday was the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and we have a lot to cover there via the news. It’s like it set itself up this week! Produced by Melanie Davis …
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