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Local resistance to the construction of Interstate 69 has been in the headlines these past few weeks after the Bloomington/Monroe County Metropolitan Planning Organization defied state demands to amend our local transportation plan to include a local property as I-69 right-of-way. Where the state wants to put an interchange for I-69, the city will develop an affordable housing project. It was a move activist Tom Tokarski calls “masterful”. Tom and wife Sandra have been fighting the highway for almost twenty years, through their advocacy group Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads. Tom and Sandra Tokarski bring us the latest news from the front lines of the fight to stop the highway.

Filmmaker, writer and photographer David Barclay Moore provides insight into and an overview of his latest documentaries about black gay men in our culture and cultural influences upon personal success or failure such as that of the black church. We apologize this interview was cut short due to technical difficulties before we were able to get to Christian Ugbode, Director of Digital Media for the National Black Programming Consortium. We will bring them both back to the program soon. Also this week: co-organizers of the upcoming Equality Rally Dee Hupp and Aaron Casper Phoenix stop by to provide updates about this event to be held in Bloomington on National Coming Out Day on October 11.

28,700 doses of the nasal spray version of the H1N1 flu vaccine are expected to start arriving in Indiana early next week; a Monrovia man doesn’t remember shocking his grandma with a stun gun about 100 times; a modest rise in local income tax goes into effect today; Monroe County will wait until 2011 to get new voting machines; a Bloomington task force on undergraduate education recommends changes to academic advising; a work training program for disabled military veterans gets a $900,000 grant; several local blood drives are scheduled for next week; female state legislators set up a scholarship fund to help women continue their education; ticket sales at this year's Lotus Festival were down only 2% despite persistent rain; a new local store celebrates the art and culture of Tibet.
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