Tag Archives: Politics

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 37.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHappiness. We all want it. But what can that word mean? What do we imagine we’re seeking as we spend much of our time and effort in pursuit of happiness? Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. Political economist …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:23 — 52.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More“Doing no violence to living things, not even a single one of them, wander alone like a rhinoceros.”* All of our songs tonight feature the whirlwind as a kind of tribute to a central essay called “The Vortex,” written by our guest Eliot Weinberger and found in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:35 — 3.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA second reading of House Joint Resolution 3 on the Senate floor today was without incident. If the Senate adopts the resolution on its third reading next Monday, it will reconcile with the amended version that came out of the House, and provide that only marriage between …

Senator Brent Steele’s proposal to amend Indiana’s constitution to guarantee residents the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife passed on a 43 to 4 vote by the full Senate on Monday. Steele’s Joint Resolution 9 provides that the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife is a valued part of Indiana’s heritage, and should be preserved for the public …

State legislators representing the Monroe County area gave their views on more than a dozen pieces of proposed legislation at a forum last Saturday. The forum was sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County, which holds monthly legislative updates when the state legislature is in session. State Senator Mark Stoops, as well as representatives Bob Heaton, Peggy …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:22 — 54.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTonight on Interchange host Doug Storm talks with three faculty members of Indiana University who were active in Occupy Bloomington, one of many occupations of public spaces in US cities that appeared as a response to the Occupy Wall Street Movement that originated in New York City …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:49 — 49.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Thursday November 7th Former Ambassador to Syria Rajendra Abhyankar provided an overview of the situation and helped audience members understand the complexities of the war, chemical weapons, and UN Resolutions. Indiana University student and Syrian native Rahaf Safi will share viewpoints and anecdotes from her family …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:34 — 52.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week on Interchange, host Trish Kerle speaks with Carrol Krause, author of Showers Brothers Furniture Co: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City, and a University and Joe Varga, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University and a labor and social justice activist. Since …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:19 — 7.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week WFHB news director Alycin Bektesh spoke with Indiana district 40 state senator mark stoops about the outlook of the 2014 legislative session – including how the Indiana legislature might examine the Affordable Care Act – here for today’s WFHB feature exclusive.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:47 — 52.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week on Interchange, host Doug Storm discusses the state of education in Indiana with Vic Smith, Board President of the Indiana Coalition for Public Education; Phil Harris, co-author of The Myths of Standardized Testing with Bruce Smith and Joan Harris, and Executive Director of the Association …