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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:05 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ll open with “Powerhouse” performed here by Don Byron off of Bug Music from 1996. Composed by Raymond Scott in 1937, “Powerhouse” was featured in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons and perhaps best known for its use in the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon “Baby Bottleneck” which stars …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOnce again we’re joined by Kimberley Brownlee to talk about the necessity of Social Rights being a rock-bottom human right. We need each other and we need to be needed so that we might become fully human. Last week we discussed how Social Rights should have priority …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:40 — 2.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOwen, Greene, and Monroe Counties are among the highest unemployment rates in the state. The May Indiana Unemployment Report was released by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, shows that overall, Indiana’s unemployment rate is relatively low at 3.2 percent, compared to the national average of 3.8 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the Bicentennial Journal, Monroe County Parks and Recreation’s Cathy Meyer conclude there discussion on the Karst Farm Park. Support for The Bicentennial Journal and WFHB comes from Monroe County and Visit Bloomington. More information about Monroe County’s Bicentennial is available on their website.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the Bicentennial Journal, Monroe County Parks and Recreation’s Cathy Meyer talks about Karst Farm Park, which started as a ‘poor farm.’ Support for The Bicentennial Journal and WFHB comes from Monroe County and Visit Bloomington. More information about Monroe County’s Bicentennial is available …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 41.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhat shall it profit a university to gain valuable endowments or private partnerships, if it should lose its soul? The public University as we know it is in crisis, as business prerogatives overtake its values and executive-style leadership eats away at its budgets. The number university administrators …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:49 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJar Turner started his career at WFHB as a volunteer in 2011. Soon after coming aboard, he became a paid production manager and then, in August, 2016, he took over as General Manager of Bloomington’s community radio station. One of his first acts as GM was to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:01 — 43.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur program today is about the problem of work. In “Life Without Principle” Henry David Thoreau, our great American guide to “getting a life,” wrote of Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood…are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often reminded …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:50 — 36.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst corporations became people. Now people are becoming businesses. That’s the logic of the marketplace applied to employment. Tonight, the third episode in our series “The Way of Neoliberalism”: Selling Me, Inc. In our last two episodes we spoke with Wendy Brown and Philip Mirowski to get …