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This week, health benefits ran out for many retired auto workers in Kokomo. Worse, some members of Kokomo's Local 292 were given just one week of notice that they'd have to make other arrangements.


WFIU Public Radio First IU Summer Festival Orchestra Concert Tonight at 8 pm:
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There are elements in Francesca da Rimini that you won't hear anywhere else.


WFIU Public Radio and a holiday jazz soundtrack from Afterglow:
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Break out the hot dogs, your favorite movies, and a cold drink of your choice--it's Independence Day this week on Afterglow. We'll celebrate with music from a recently-reissued album of duets from Bing ...


WFIU Public Radio Also just in time for the holiday weekend, some summer grilling tips from Chef Daniel Orr
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Just in time for the Fourth of July holiday and summer cookouts, Chef Daniel Orr passed on some grilling tips for our Earth Eats listeners. Enjoy!


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Bloomington area legislators are speaking out against the budget passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Mitch Daniels Tuesday


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If the City of Columbus wins its remonstrance and proceeds with plans to build a new downtown Commons, Mayor Fred Armstrong says the project will not go forward


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On a recent trip to Columbus, Indiana we wandered into downtown to visit an the newly restored 1900 ice cream parlor called Zaharako’s.


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As part of its mission in Afghanistan, the Indiana National Guard's Agribusiness Development Team must determine which products farmers should raise. As WFIU's Douglas Wissing reports, it's both a public relations battle and an information gathering challenge.


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Following a meeting this week, some Bloomington restaurant owners appear at odds with Monroe County Convention Center officials on a new state law allowing the county council to impose a food and beverage tax which could help fund expansion of the county's convention center. ...


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Sharon Ammen is the Director of Theatre and Drama at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College. She’s also an actor, director and the author of a new musical adaptation of the classic children’s story “The Velveteen Rabbit” at the Crossroads Repertory Theatre's 2009 Season.


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How Baltimore-based writer and producer David Simon turned his 12 years on the crime beat of a daily newspaper into the critically-acclaimed series The Wire.


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Earlier this month, a funeral was held on the base for a Georgia National Guardsman who was killed on a road WFIU reporter Douglas Wissing had traveled two weeks prior. In this segment of WFIU's continuing series Cultivating Afghanistan, a look back at the farewell offered to a fallen comrade.


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Applications to public colleges are up once again this year at Indiana’s two largest university systems, but that means both schools will need to make policy changes to deal with the increasing numbers, ...


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The Indiana University Trustees have approved a resolution allowing the school to keep operating if the state does not come to a budget agreement by its June 30th deadline. As WFIU's Stan Jastrzebski reports, ...


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The City of Kokomo's budget could be crippled if it does not include almost $6 million in property tax revenue which would have been paid by Chrysler before the automaker went into bankruptcy proceedings.


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The Indiana National Guard's 119th Agribusiness Team is working to improve breeding and feeding of animals in Eastern Afghanistan.


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During the nation's second century, a strong, durable, fine-grained stone made its way from the quarries of south central Indiana to the nation’s most significant landmarks. This year, a consortium of interests in Monroe and Lawrence Counties is raising awareness about Indiana’s limestone heritage.


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As Chrysler emerges from bankruptcy, the troubled automaker has to decide which contracts it will honor - and which ones it won’t. As a result, the fate of two contracts with Columbus-based diesel engine manufacturer Cummins hang in the balance. WFIU’s Daniel Robison has more.


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With legislators in the General Assembly fighting a July 1st deadline to craft the state’s 2010 budget, Indiana University administrators are nervously awaiting word of the school’s share. In anticipation ...


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June is the perfect month to tour gardens and to enjoy the beauty of flowers and flower displays. One great destination is the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.


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I felt that Much Ado about Nothing had real resonance with both the difficult times that our country is going through and with the tough times of the thirties.


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Cash held in reserve by the City of Bloomington will help forestall layoffs for the immediate future, according to Mayor Mark Kruzan.


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Water can be hard to come by in eastern Afghanistan, making farming that much more difficult. As a result, the farmer-soldiers of the Indiana National Guard's 119th Agribusiness Development Team have begun working to make irrigation more sustainable.


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The Indiana Supreme Court has, in less than three weeks, decided the case which could establish the final outcome of the 2007 Terre Haute mayoral election.


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Jacob Rosenblum has celiac disease, an autoimmune condition that keeps his body from processing foods with wheat gluten. Even though he can't eat his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on wheat bread anymore, or most cereals, his family is finding new ways to cook gluten-free and keep him healthy.


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June 1st marked the beginning of the end of a long journey at the Jacobs School of Music. Students and faculty as well as workers from organ builder C.B. Fisk all took part in unloading and carrying the many pieces of what will eventually come together as the new Auer Hall organ.


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With Bainbridge resident Dan Stockton’s kickoff announcement last week, the Eighth District now has its first Republican candidate seeking current Representative Brad Ellsworth’s congressional seat. With ...


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In a shift from his previous position, Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett now says depending on the outcome of his case in front of the Indiana Supreme Court, an


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Terre Haute's city government has launched a plan to assist United State Census canvassers in counting as many people as possible in the city's


WFIU Public Radio Share your remembrances of Peter's life and his work in the comments section and we'll pass them along to the family.
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WFIU was stunned and saddened this week by the passing of WFIU’s movie critic, Peter Noble-Kuchera.


Stephen at 3:50pm June 10
His movie reviews were always the highlight of the working day. Every time I hear that theme music my ears perk up because I know something worth hearing is soon to follow.


Jill at 5:53pm June 10
I so appreciated and respected his reviews, and I completely agree that they were literary and beautifully written. In my mind, I can hear his closing: "This is Peter Noble-Kuchera . . ."

















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