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Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan will present his 2009 State of the City address on Wednesday, broadcast live on WFHB; the Indiana General Assembly gives teachers legal protection to discipline students as long as they follow school policy; the state association for township government will host a meeting in Bloomington tonight on how to fight elimination of township government; Teter Quad is the number one eco-friendly dorm in the Indiana University Energy Challenge; local General Electric union president Carven Thomas talks about Saturday's multi-union labor rally; children of survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster visit Bloomington Monday; you can nominate your favorite local server for a Bloomington Hospitality Award; an unlikely guest deejay takes over WFIU tomorrow - IU President Michael McRobbie.
FEATURE
A public hearing was held today on a million-dollar request for economic stimulus money for the Rural Transit bus system, and one user of that system says the money needs to have strings attached. Randy Paul is a longtime user of Rural Transit and BT Access, and helped drivers unionize last fall. In this segment you’ll hear Paul outline some of the many problems he sees with management and training of drivers at the Area 10 Agency on Aging, which runs the Rural Transit program. County commissioner Iris Kiesling attended today’s session and says she intend to support the application when the commissioners vote on it tomorrow morning. As our on-location feed from the county courthouse begins Area 10 director Jewel Echelbarger outlines what the money will be spent on in this WFHB exclusive.
VOICES IN THE STREET
Is graffiti on the rise in Bloomington? Where is the line between vandalism and art? Lauren Taylor pounds the pavement to find out what Bloomington residents think in this weekly public opinion feature.