Welcome to the March edition of Civic Conversations – a monthly podcast collaboration with the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County . In today’s segment, host Jim Allison speaks with Lisa Marie Napoli, director of the Political and Civic Engagement or PACE, at Indiana University. Napoli also founded Voices for Democracy and Civility. The topic for this …
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This week, we air an interview with WFYI reporters Lauren Bavis and Jake Harper in Indianapolis. They co-host the podcast called Sick, the second season of which focuses on health care issues in the Indiana Women’s Prison. As they share on the show, the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic ignited their interest in IWP and and led them to research …
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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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It’s the second Thursday in February, so that means it’s time for our podcast, Prescription for Healthcare, a deep-dive into healthcare issues hosted by Rob Stone and Karen Green Stone. Today’s program is Part II. of their interview with T.R. Reid – a long-time correspondent for the Washington Post, author of many best-selling books, chairman of the Colorado Foundation for …
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Welcome to the latest edition of our podcast, Prescription for Healthcare, produced by Dr. Rob Stone and Karen Green Stone. Our guest today is T.R. Reid – a longtime correspondent for the Washington Post, a best-selling author, chairman of the Colorado Foundation for Universal Healthcare and chairman on the board of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Reid discusses a …
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A local chapter of the environmental protest group, Extinction Rebellion, has three demands for lawmakers to ensure carbon emissions drop to net zero within the next six years. WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner discusses the Extinction Rebellion organization with the founding XR Bloomington members. The Bloomington chapter of the Extinction Rebellion Organization began in the early summer of 2019. The group …
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The Daily Local News will be on temporary hiatus until August 5th. Until then, we will be airing episodes of Scene On Radio Podcast “Seeing White.” You can listen to the full unedited episode of “Seeing White” at https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/.
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The Monroe County Public Library’s podcast series Girls Sound it Out! launched a new episode this summer. WFHB’s Macy Evans sat down with Jeannette Lehr, the library’s digital creativity specialist, to talk about how the library supports young podcasters. We’ll also hear a segment from Girls Sound it Out! For more information on the library’s digital creativity center, visit mcpl.org/levelup.
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President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama have been battling over Indiana’s Senate race, this weekend; Seventeen Indiana state parks will temporarily close for deer hunts this month, including Brown County State Park and Griffy Nature Preserve; The Indiana Department of Transportation has officially opened Interstate 69, section five. A 13 year-old boy who shot his teacher and another …
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In this episode of the Hijabi Diaries, Abi shares her updates from the field in her Ramadan Diaries 2018 (which you can also access on our website, www.hijabidiaries.com), which share what Ramadan is like for this hijabi, teacher, and mother of three. Also, we talk with Anna Maidi, our co-producer, about how motherhood changed Ramadan for her. Anna hasn’t observed …
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