Stan Jastrzebski came to WFIU in June of 2008, following time as a reporter with WGN in Chicago and as an editor at Network Indiana, an Indianapolis news service. Stan is the winner of awards from the Associated Press, the Radio-Television News Director's Association, the Indiana Broadcasters Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. He regularly hosts WFIU's Ask the Mayor and Noon Edition programs, as well as anchoring Morning Edition on Wednesdays.
Bloomington's mayor agrees that the sale of the John Waldron Arts Center could be disastrous for radio station WFHB if done the wrong way, but is vowing to work on the station's behalf with the building's next owner.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
In order to help settle the Bloomington Area Arts Council's six-figure debt obligation, the city of Bloomington has agreed to temporarily purchase the John Waldron Arts Center. But the fate of a local radio station could hang on the future owner of the property.
Continue reading...Monday, March 1, 2010
Following the retirement of Indiana’s junior senator, Evan Bayh, the state’s Democratic party is forced to replace the man who’s been its most visible figure for the last two decades.
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
8th District Congressman Brad Ellsworth made it official Friday by announcing in an e-mail that he plans to run for the U-S Senate seat soon to be vacated by Evan Bayh. One 8th District leader says he thinks the congressman gives Democrats a renewed chance of keeping the seat, but Republican strategists say their tactics won't change much.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 18, 2010
Following a Tuesday meeting of the Monroe County Community School Corporation’s board, parents and politicians alike were given a chance Wednesday to again air their displeasure with a proposal which would cut 75 jobs and more than five million dollars from the corporation’s bottom line.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 18, 2010
Though he says he believes a sitting member of Congress will likely be appointed to run for Evan Bayh’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan said he’d pick a different Democratic candidate, if given the choice.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 18, 2010
Bloomington restaurant owner Tamyra D'Ippolito is refusing to say much about her legal plans to become the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat soon to be vacated by Evan Bayh. Even as other Democrats raise a questioning eyebrow, the senatorial hopeful says she still plans to file her candidacy by Friday's deadline.
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
Monday's announcement that Senator Evan Bayh will not seek re-election means there's just a single Democrat left in the race. But Bloomington restaurant owner Tamyra D'Ippolito is still struggling to collect signatures by Tuesday's deadline -- thanks in some part, she says, to nonchalance on the part of local Democratic leaders.
Continue reading...Friday, February 5, 2010
For months, Todd Rokita has advocated stripping the Indiana General Assembly of its redistricting power and giving that responsibility instead to a bipartisan commission, which he hopes will redraw maps which look less like ink blot tests and more like geometric figures.
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
On Friday, Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett met with one of four Deputy Mayors of Krakow, Poland to learn how that city has turned its image around in less than three decades. As WFIU's Stan Jastrzebski reports from Krakow, city leaders say it starts with a focused strategy, but admit they fight some of the same battles as Indiana politicians.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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