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Indiana midwives are celebrating House committee approval of HB86 which could grant licensure to certified professional midwives; the food service director for the local school system learns from a guest speaker on getting healthy, locally-grown food into school lunches; a discovery by an Indiana University astronomer could upset most theories of galaxy formation; local resident and 9/11 whistleblower Kevin Ryan will talk tomorrow about discovering traces of explosives in the dust from the World Trade Center; Bloomington’s annual Easter Egg Hunt happens tomorrow on the courthouse lawn; the second annual "Sustain IU" festival starts Monday and runs through Earth Day.
Also in this program:
News director Chad Carrothers talks with volunteers Roscoe Medlock and Anna Witte about why it's important to support independent community-access media as WFHB conducts its biannual Pledge Drive to support Indiana’s only volunteer-powered, listener-supported local news program. We also hear an encore broadcast of a WFHB news story that has just won a state award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best Social Justice Reporting.
DOWNBEAT
Our resident music critic Mark Tschida presents his top local concert picks for this week in a new edition of the Downbeat.