HEADLINES WFIU reported the northern Indiana utility NIPSCO wants to raise rates to clean up coal ash ponds at its Michigan City coal plant. Other utilities in the state may be following suit. Activists say NIPSCO’s customers shouldn’t have to pay for what they call an “incomplete” cleanup. —Norm Holy Pam Roberts, with MC-IRIS, has identified the Callery Pear as …
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The title of our opening song, performed by Deacon Tom Jones, from the compilation album Mississippi Saints and Sinners, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down,” serves as an epigraph to Baldwin’s 1972 masterpiece, the essay collection No Name in the Street, which features heavily in our program today. Born on August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem James …
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The Indiana Department of Revenue is implementing an online sales tax, starting this Fall; On Friday, an Indiana judge approved an injunction, allowing a transgender student to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with; An Indiana lawmaker is in hot water, after doubting the existence of racism in a three-year old conversation on social media; The Monroe County …
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