In its most recent estimate, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration shows more than 230 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions were produced in Indiana in 2007. The majority of that number is attributed to industry, but, a significant portion is produced by the average Hoosier. WFIU's Arianna Prothero has more.
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Following Governor Mitch Daniels’ latest round of budget cuts -- totaling $150 million -- state-funded universities are rushing to find money they can afford to cut. However, even though the problem is the same for each school, the solutions are highly tailored. WFIU’s Arianna Prothero reports…
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Following deaths at Bloomington-area quarries over the summer, the local police dive team was in the spotlight. Though the team has been around almost 20 years, the team’s tactics have changed.
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The most visible members of the Bloomington Police Department may patrol the city in squad cars or staff big football games, but there several branches of the which aren’t as high-profile. This week, WFIU’s Arianna Prothero explores two of those branches. In the first of a two-part series, a ride with the newly reinstated K-9 Unit…
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State Senator Luke Kenley says he’s put a couple of Indiana University’s building projects back on the State Budget Committee’s agenda for Friday. But Higher Education Commissioner Teresa Lubbers says the numbers Kenley used to take the projects off the agenda in the first place may be flawed.
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Leveraging his ability to forestall higher education appropriations, Noblesville State Senator and Budget Committee Chairman Luke Kenley says he’ll hold back $53 million from Indiana and Purdue Universities unless the schools agree not to raise their tuition. But, as WFIU’s Arianna Prothero reports, IU officials say they’re not budging…
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In Kokomo, where one in five people is jobless, many auto industry lifers are choosing to get the education they passed up years ago.
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Tax collections are down this year in Howard County due in large part to Chrysler's bankruptcy. Although Chrysler's real estate taxes are considered secured debt, the $12 million Chrysler owes in personal property tax is not.
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Former Bloomington mayor John Fernandez has been nominated by President Obama to a position in the Department of Commerce and a prominent Indiana political commentator says given Fernandez’s robust campaigning for Obama during the election, his nomination shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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