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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 29th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Annika Harshbarger gives us a rundown of protests at Dunn Meadow over the course of the last few days. More in today’s feature report. That’s Ryne Shadday from the Bloomington-Monroe County Human …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:23 — 11.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe mural in People’s Park was anonymously overlaid with the words, “Black Lives Matter” on Friday, June 19, 2020. The City of Bloomington Arts Commission Met on July 8th, during a public meeting to decide whether or not it will keep the “Black Lives Matter” lettering.  “Defund …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we continue our coverage of the pandemic’s impact on prisoners across the country.  A COVID-19 uprising broke out in Washington state this week.  On April 8, 100 prisoners refused to comply with orders to disperse a protest, and were attacked by so-called “less lethal weapons” …

Progressive organizations are calling on supporters to turn out in the streets this afternoon. Common Dreams and MoveOn.org are advocating for supporters to protest the forced resignation of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions is a Republican, and has been no friend to progressive and left-leaning organizations. But MoveOn.org and Common Dreams are protesting his ouster, after Trump announced his …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:38 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Labor Day weekend, Rev. Forrest Gilmore drove to Madison, Indiana. Gilmore and Bloomington residents spent their Saturday with hundreds of counter-protesters, including members of the American Indian Movement, at Ku Klux Klan counter-protests during a cookout. Gilmore said the KKK “kookout” was attended by a little over …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:18 — 1.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington residents cancelled a planned protest at Mayor John Hamilton’s residence. The ‘die-in’ was planned for Wednesday, at the residence of Mayor Hamilton and his wife, Indiana University Law Professor Dawn Johnsen. The planned protest came after repeated calls for the city to remove the addresses and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:32 — 3.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNation-wide protests are scheduled for Saturday, over the detention of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. In Bloomington, protesters will gather at 10:30 a.m. at the Monroe County Courthouse. Immigration advocate Gracia Valliant is scheduled to speak about the detentions. Valliant said, while the detention policy is …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe city of Bloomington is proposing a one-year moratorium on addiction treatment facilities; Today may be the last day Bloomington commuters see police directing traffic at the Second and Third Street overpasses;Demonstrators took to the Monroe County Courthouse Square on Friday, calling for action on gun violence. Big …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:21 — 23.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreGovernor Eric Holcomb signed a bill increasing regulations on abortion clinics yesterday; Students in the Monroe County Community School Corporation joined in protests across the world this weekend; The city of Martinsville has filed a class-action lawsuit against nine different opioid manufacturers; FEATURE Bloomington tech innovator and angel investor …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:08 — 25.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis retrospective edition of the Daily Local News highlights some of our best reporting from 2017. We’ll hear from IU Foundation President Dan Smith about the Foundation’s offshoring of millions of dollars in the Cayman Islands; we’ll listen to IU students, as they protest the visitation of …