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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:18 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, December 9th, 2024. Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin looks into the number of hours worked by Bloomington’s mayor. This has become a topic of conversation, in the context of the proposed salary ordinance …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:17 — 45.8MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB News interviews voters, poll workers and candidates in light of Election Day. More coming up throughout today’s program. Local voices share how they’re feeling about the 2024 Presidential Election. WFHB sends more than …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:56 — 8.2MB)Subscribe: RSSWFHB News presents Election Day coverage from the Monroe County Democrats’ Watch Party at the Dimension Mill in Bloomington, Indiana.  Correspondent Ashley Voss is on location bringing you real-time updates as the evening progresses.  Voss provides you partial election results, including an up-to-date tally of the Monroe County Community …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:00 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOver half of eligible voters cast ballots in November’s midterm election. Indiana had 51 percent average turnout across the state. This is the highest voter turnout for Indiana during a midterm election since 1994. Slightly over two million people voted out of the four and half million eligible voters. Indiana …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTwo days after the midterm election, and no votes have officially been counted  in northwestern Indiana’s Porter County. Commissioners in Porter County asked the FBI on Wednesday to investigate, “scores of alleged violations of Indiana Election Law,” following Tuesday’s midterm election. The county, which has 132 precincts …

Nearly 60 percent of registered voters in Monroe County cast ballots in yesterday’s midterm election. That’s despite several polling places in Monroe County running out of ballots. Monroe County Election Board Chair William Ellis said some voters waited three to four hours. “I wish I could tell you it didn’t discourage turnout, but it did,” Ellis said. “Let me be …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:18 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFall Midterm elections take place in nine weeks. Election season culminates in the general election, on November 6. Voter registration throughout Indiana ends a month prior, on October 9. Early and absentee voting beginning the following day. Indiana law states that early and absentee voting must occur …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:25 — 22.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Republicans approved a plank, during their party convention last weekend in Evansville, which aims to make abortion a constitutional issue.  Indiana University’s Board of Trustees is meeting in Gary today and tomorrow.  The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is predicting high ozone levels across our listening area tomorrow.  A …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:19 — 23.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bloomington Redevelopment Commission heard a proposal from Public Investment Corporation for a new roadway to replace Weimer Road, between W. 2nd Street and Tapp Road; The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission approved three Neighborhood Improvement Grants, totaling $17,000; New data shows that Indiana aired more commercials than any …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:12 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Monroe County Election Board approved creating two new polling places in its February 1st meeting. The Board is eliminating polling sites at the IU football complex and the IU union center in favor of one central polling site at the University Club. Board member Carolyn VandeWiele …