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“We saved the Waldron”. That was Bloomington mayor Mark Kruzan’s triumphant declaration as the Bloomington Area Arts Council announced it has signed an agreement for the city to take over the John Waldron Arts Center from the financially troubled council. The BAAC is getting a good deal, walking away from the Waldron without any debt. The city is getting a good deal too, as the holders of a clear title to a historic building worth anywhere from one to two million dollars, and careful control over its destiny. Here’s the score: the city tears up the $270,000 mortgage debt owed to them by the BAAC. Then the city buys the contents of the building for $150,000. The BAAC now no longer owes on the mortgage, and they can use the $150K to pay off their debts. The city has complete and total ownership of the building, and for now will run it using city staff from Parks and Recreation, Public Works, and other departments.

March is Peak Oil Month here at EcoReport, examining a world paralyzed by declining petroleum resources as outlined in a report the Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force submitted to the Bloomington City Council, which approved the report in December. Is Bloomington is ready for a world without oil? Gary Charbonneau and city councilmember Dave Rollo are members of the local task force, joining us in the studio as our guests in the second installment of our special four-part series on Peak Oil. EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.

Helen and Sean chat with Mikaya Heart, a native of Scotland and a world traveler and lesbian author of “My Sweet Wild Dance” and other publications. bOUT2 is a spinoff podcast of bloomingOUT, Indiana's only out, loud, and proud radio show, a public affairs program dedicated to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Each week on bOUT2 we deconstruct the week's top queer news and talk with guests you didn't hear in this week's bloomingOUT.

WFHB Assistant News Director January Jones presents an hour-long journey with people on the front lines fighting for everyone’s right to shelter and compassion. In this year's edition of our annual documentary, we follow local social worker Bill Ferry, a case manager for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH). The PATH program works directly with people experiencing homelessness to help them get back on their feet. We visit the people and places in a side of Bloomington few people ever see as we take you on-location to the Shalom Center, the Interfaith Winter Shelter and hear interviews with advocates Joel Rekas, Hal Taylor, and David White, along with winter shelter volunteers and PATH clients.

Several times a year WFHB partners with the Bloomington Storytelling Project to host a live storytelling event, featuring local stories shared by the people who experienced them. There are only two rules for story submissions: they must be less than fifteen minutes long, and they must be true. In its third edition, the Bloomington Storytelling Project went to neighboring Brown County, where storytelling is an integral part of the local culture. Brown County is famous, or perhaps infamous, for storytelling, but according to project rules the Brown County folks had to stick to true stories instead of their usual "tall tales". A beer-drinking horse, a bully gets his comeuppance, and a little brother who likes to pee on things are all on the menu in this one-hour edit of a live event recorded on-location at the Muddy Boots Café in Nashville, Indiana on March 6, 2010.

Host Helen Harrell interviews Bloomington resident, IU graduate student, local attorney, WFHB host of Indigenous Indiana and Native American activist Rebecca Riall. Their conversation covers topics such as the recent establishment of the local Native American Community Center, discrimination against and acceptance of native Americans on campus and in the community as well as issues related to reservation life and historical events.