Tag Archives: voting

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 …

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: 6:57 — 4.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA grassroots Indiana group is trying to motivate voters to participate in the upcoming November elections. The non-profit, non-partisan organization Hoosier Action recently announced ‘Project Midterm,’ which is looking to recruit 500 members of the Bloomington community to help residents sign up to vote. Hoosier Action is …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:53 — 4.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA federal judge is blocking a new program that would allow state officials to purge voter data from Indiana’s election rolls. The ruling, issued Friday by U.S. District Court Hon. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, temporarily bars the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program from going into effect. The …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:15 — 5.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLiz Watson beat out Dan Canon and Rob Chatlos to win yesterday’s Democratic nomination for Indiana’s 9th Congressional District. Watson, a Bloomington native tells WFHB News Director Wes Martin that she’s thankful to have won yesterday’s race, and she’s ready to get to work on November.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:42 — 23.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES: Early voting for this year’s primary election ended today; The Bloomington Arts Commission is commissioning musician Jeff Cannon to compose a bicentennial song for the city; A study from Indiana University found that higher-energy costs associated with clean energy disproportionately affect low-income communities. FEATURE: Tristra Newyear …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:38 — 20.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBlack Lives Matter protesters signal they may disrupt tomorrow’s bicentennial ceremony for the city of Bloomington; The U.S. Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, is urging the widespread adoption of the opioid-reversal drug Naloxone by private citizens; Monroe County will hold its Second Annual Opioid Summit this Fall, on …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:42 — 18.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday is the deadline to register to vote in the May eighth Indiana primary; National attention is focusing on Indiana’s primary season, with three Republicans candidates vying for the nomination to run against incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator, Joe Donnelly; A missing Columbus man has been declared dead after his …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:19 — 2.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report looking at the economic opportunity for women across the country, gave Indiana a ‘D’ for the second year in a row. The report is published by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a non-profit group that conducts research and policy analysis for inequality issues facing …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:14 — 20.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFederal intelligence services believe Russian government employees probed state voter registration rolls for possible weaknesses, in 2016; Activists will protest two bills at the Indianapolis statehouse tomorrow; The Bloomington Rail Trail will be closed to the public until Friday for maintenance. FEATURE WFHB Correspondent Michael Glab speaks with war …