The National Rifle Association’s convention took place in Indianapolis, over the weekend. Notably absent was NRA spokesperson Oliver North. North, a retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal, announced Saturday he would not serve a second one-year term as NRA spokesman. North’s term ended today. The Associated Press reports North’s announcement brings an end to a …
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Former US Senator Richard Lugar dies at 87; Oliver North ousted from NRA; Solid Waste Management Board gets serious about composting. FEATURE Ryan Maloney talks about issues important to his campaign for the District 5 seat on Bloomington’s city council, on today’s edition of Big Talk Extra. ACTIVATE! Henry Dohnert talks about his volunteerism with the Broadview Learning Center on …
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In our modern-day society, the theme of gun control is often debated by citizens and politicians due to the growing rate of mass shootings in our country. Public outcry regarding gun control has greatly increased in the recent years. Voices in The Street went out to ask area listeners how they feel about gun legislation and whether they own guns.
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This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firearms, and Surviving Gunshot Wounds.” We know a lot about gun homicide, much less about what life is like for the wounded living: What happens to those who get shot, but live? How does the arc of …
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For our second show in our three-part series, A Targeted Divide, we bring you “Crime, Decline, and the Rise of the Citizen-Protector: How the Meaning of Citizenship Is Changing in a Nation Awash in Firearms.” In response to economic decline and reductions in services provided by the state, some men are taking the role of the state into their own …
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Today we begin a series of three programs on Guns in the USA we’re calling a A Targeted Divide. Our first show is “Gunning Down the Bill of Rights,” how the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st. After a Supreme Court decision in 2008, the most ambiguous and poorly written of our constitutional amendments now means what the NRA wants it …
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