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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:03 — 28.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe City of Bloomington and Indiana University are moving tonight’s Juneteenth celebration indoors; The Brown County Humane Society is raising money to construct a new animal shelter; City of Bloomington officials are pursuing plans for expanding the footprint of the new Fourth Street parking garage, but a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:54 — 15.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe city of Bloomington will begin demolition of the Fourth Street parking garage this summer. The city is finalizing design plans for the new garage, and has decided on where it will build the new Trades District parking garage. The Fourth Street Parking Garage has been a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:21 — 69.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington Redevelopment Commission approves demolition and reconstruction of Fourth Street parking garage; Commission also approves design contract for Trades District parking garage; City of Bloomington continues legal battle with Indiana, over annexation. FEATURE After last night’s debate, we hear from Incumbent Mayor John Hamilton and his challenger, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:02 — 13.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bloomington Common Council declined to approve $18.5 million in bond funding to rebuild the Fourth Street Garage, during its meeting last night. Instead, council members want to see the garage repaired. Council members said repairing the downtown garage will buy the city time to examine downtown …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:39 — 12.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The Bloomington Common Council is expected to take up the bond funding measures for two downtown parking garages in its meeting, tomorrow night. City of Bloomington administrators seem set on replacing the downtown Fourth Street parking garage, but some city council members are revisiting the idea …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:49 — 20.2MB) Subscribe: RSS | More A recent report from structural engineers is prompting Bloomington officials to consider rebuilding the Fourth Street garage. Attorney General Curtis Hill is warning Hoosiers to beware of scams in which companies send consumers unsolicited credit cards, often touting high credit limits.  The Indiana Department of Transportation is …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00 — 808.5KB) Subscribe: RSS | More A recent report from structural engineers is prompting Bloomington officials to consider rebuilding the Fourth Street garage. Bloomington’s Public Works Director Adam Wason told the Board of Public Works on Tuesday,the garage is over 30 years old, but was expected to have a 50-year lifespan.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:15 — 6.3MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Jim Blickensdorf is a downtown Bloomington business owner, who admits he was at first skeptical of the metered parking. Blickensdorf recently chaired the first Bloomington Parking Commission and, as he tells WFHB News Director Wes Martin, his views have definitely changed. Blickensdorf talks about the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:38 — 1.5MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Indiana University Treasurer Mary Frances McCourt has estimated that parking operations on campus could generate a $43 million profit over the next twenty years. She presented her findings to the IU Board of Trustees on Friday. McCourt recommended in October that the university should control …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:36 — 556.3KB) Subscribe: RSS | More Local police are receiving ongoing reports of parking meter vandalism in Bloomington. Susie Johnson, director of the city’s Public Works department, says she doesn’t want to go into detail on the vandalism, but that it has been minimal so far. “I really would rather not …