Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 22.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to the Back to School Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Eric Langowski discusses the reality of IU’s racist enrollment policy …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:47 — 2.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode, Betty Greenwell and Jim Allison of the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County, talk about the (lack of) restrictions on gerrymandering voting districts. Greenwell and Allison map out and how voters can change the political landscape. A Minute of Civics is produced …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:29 — 21.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMonroe County Emergency Management Director Alison Moore is working to ensure county residents receive help in the wake of a disaster; The Bloomington-based domestic violence shelter Middle Way House announced this afternoon a new slate of officers, including a new president. FEATURE The second annual Bloomington and South Central …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:38 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Boston Gazette coined the term “gerrymandering,” in 1812, after then-Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry. As League of Women Voter of Bloomington-Monroe County President Ann Birch explains, Gerry infamously signed a bill that redistricted the state, creating a political district map that was so curvy and complex that …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:19 — 6.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThursday marks the 73rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The Bloomington Peace Action Coalition is holding a remembrance vigil on the Monroe County Courthouse Square, from 8-9 p.m. Bloomington Peace Action Coalition member David Keppel talks about the planned vigil, and the role …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:39 — 20.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMonroe County terminated an agreement with the city of Bloomington yesterday, over the proposed Convention Center expansion; The city’s Commission on the Status of Black Males lined up, outside of Templeton Elementary School, to welcome students back to school; The Indiana State Department of Health has found mosquitoes …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:33 — 18.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShalom Community Center’s Reverend Forrest Gilmore says his organization is seeing a marked reduction in overdose deaths among clients this year, over last year; The City of Bloomington Utilities is performing fire hydrant maintenance, beginning today and continuing through tomorrow, July 6th; Commuters along the highway 37/ I 69 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 24.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to the Citizenship/Identity Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Eric Langowski discusses the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s edition of The Bicentennial Journal, Bloomington City Council member Susan Sandberg talks about the history of women in politics. Sandberg tells us about the first women to serve in Monroe County politics, after women swept the county primary last week. Support for The Bicentennial …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:05 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana spent more on political advertising this primary election than any other state in the nation. According to an analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project, Indiana candidates have spent $8.8 million on ads this primary season. That’s $2 million more than the second place spender, Ohio. Indiana …
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