The Knight’s Corner country grocery store and gas station on State Road 46 between Bloomington and Nashville is closing at the end of the month after nearly sixty years in business; the downtown storefront formerly occupied by the Cinemat is about to get a new lease on life as a bar and music venue; the Bloomington Committee Against Racism and Homophobia in Youth wants Indiana University to stop hosting an elite Boy Scouts summit that protesters say demeans Native American cultures and excludes LGBTIQ participants; local tech outfit Option Six creates custom online learning programs and is one of Indiana’s "50 Companies to Watch"; Baron Hill says he will proceed carefully on the new federal healthcare bill, and meanwhile his committee is seeking stories of Hoosiers dumped by their insurance company once they got sick; a local real estate expert says time is running out for first-time homebuyers to use a special federal tax credit; a statewide blood drive started by a local resident honors the memory of a Morgan County deputy sheriff killed in the line of duty; the city of Bloomington wants to know what you think about their website.
FEATURE
In about four weeks the Project School will open its doors as Bloomington’s first public charter school, and today students and parents are brainstorming ideas for what exactly will be taught at TPS. The basic concept is that the curriculum should come directly from the communities in which students live. This idea is based on the belief that all children can identify critical issues and use local assets to address them. Today and tomorrow, we are featuring exclusive audio recorded right in the middle of the first brainstorming session. Today we start with the most basic question: “What matters most to you in this community?”
FIREHOUSE FEEDBACK
Fed up with the social networking craze, commentator Jason Page gives up his blog and decides to talk to real people instead of a computer screen.
