The B-Town Bee

Bloomington’s Brad Meyer emerges as the Democrats’ best hope in the Ninth

Bees are pollinators, you know. We aim to feed your mind, or at least give it something to chew on, through commentary serious and sly, and reportage from and about our hive in Bloomington, Indiana. — Mike Leonard

This is What a Coup Looks Like

Those Tatterdemalion Thugs By Dennis Reardon, guest columnist We have a munificently funded private Executive army invading the capitals of states that didn’t vote for Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump. I refrain from calling ICE Trump’s Gestapo only because the Nazi Gestapo was a highly-trained and well-disciplined set of brutes. The tatterdemalion thugs that invaded Minneapolis were…

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The Bright Light of the Dark End of the Street

Pioneering radio show turns over the reins after more than three decades By Mike Leonard When program host Bill Weaver announced his retirement from the WFHB show, “Dark End of the Street” in late December, fans and friends of the program all seemed to say the same thing: “It’s the end of an era.” Dark…

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Hearing from Heavy Ed

Heavy Ed tries to find a reason to care about the Super Bowl

It could be the success of small market teams, or Lindsay Lohan, or Crest toothpaste, or jobs for IU graduates. So the phone pings and like the Pavlovian dog I’ve become,  I drool, grope for the phone, and see a message from Heavy Ed. “How ‘bout them Bengals.” I write back. “WTF you aren’t a…

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Rokita takes the wheel of the assclown car

Heavy Ed takes stock of Hoosier pols I noticed Heavy Ed sitting on a bench and apparently reading something on his phone as I rode my bike down the B-Line through Switchyard Park. I pulled up and stopped. “Nice park, huh?” I asked. “Yeah, it is,” Ed said, putting the phone down. “Everybody bitches about…

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The Battle for Buffalo Springs

A well-respected environmental activist calls BS on a Forest Service plan to “restore” (read: log) a place it calls Buffalo Springs, a made-up name for a place locals call home. By Andy Mahler There is something that doesn’t sit right about the Forest Service’s plan to punch logging roads into the heart of the  hardwood…

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The Endangered Forest

When they say it’s not about the money, it’s about the money By James Alexander Thom A note from the editor: Some background on “The Endangered Forest”: The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is moving forward with a massive plan to “improve” the Hoosier National Forest near Bloomington through means including logging, prescribed fires, applying herbicides…

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