This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 18th, 2023. In today’s feature report, we have Disabulletin – a segment highlighting disability news across the country and around the world on the WFHB Local News. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 6th, 2023. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Leo Paes reports on racial inequality in sports. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld its abortion ban – saying it doesn’t violate the state’s constitution. WFHB News Correspondent Brookelyn Lambright has …
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This week, we continue our discussion of the Supreme Court case heard last Wednesday, Perez V Sturgis school district. The case concerns two laws: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA, which requires children with disabilities be provided a “free appropriate public education” or (FAPE) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 25th, 2022. Later in the program, we have Disabulletin – a segment highlighting disability news across the country and around the world on the WFHB Local News hosted by Abe Shapiro. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have “Fake Problems, Fake Reviews” on …
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The Supreme Court met today to hear a case regarding a deaf student Miguel Luna Perez of Sturgis Michigan, who was denied access to a professional sign language interpreter and whose parents were falsely told over the course of 12 years that their son was on his way to graduation, only to receive a certificate of completion instead of a …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, November 16th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Abe Shapiro continues his ongoing report, Civil or Not: The Court Case of Talevski v. Marion and the Debate over a Private Right to Sue. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Pants on Fire on Better …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, November 14th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Abe Shapiro reported on the oral arguments of a recent Supreme Court case involving an Indiana nursing home. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, some recent prison-related news and announcements from the producers of Kite Line …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 26th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News Correspondent Noelle Herhusky-Schneider talked to lifelong Paoli resident Jesse Laws about the Hoosier National Forest Management Plan. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Civil or Not: The Court Case of Talevski v. Marion and the Debate …
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Welcome to the latest installment of Civic Conversations, a podcast brought to you in collaboration with the League of Women Voters Bloomington-Monroe County and WFHB. In today’s program, host Jim Allison speaks with Sheila Kennedy, Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI and former executive director of the Indiana chapter of ACLU. Professor Kennedy discusses the …
Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to review Indiana’s anti-robocall law. A lower court upheld the robocall ban in January and the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case means the law will stay in place. The law prohibits companies from making pre-recorded calls to peoples’ phones without their consent. A company called Patriotic Veterans, Inc. had been seeking …
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