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A boating safety bill has passed Senate and is now waiting to be approved by Governor Mitch Daniels. If this bill is passed, boaters that drive whi...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
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Last week, the City of Bloomington Human Rights Commission inspected the Monroe County Jail, where they got a sneak peak into the living conditions...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 09:54
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In today’s feature report, Lucille Bertuccio interviews Attorney Mick Harrison and founding member of Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads, Brian G...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 08:29
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Monroe County’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan is presently resting in the hands of the Monroe County Commissioners, and will be reviewed tomorrow mor...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:56
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At all times, day or night, somewhere in Bloomington, someone is banking on the art of music to earn their income. Correspondent Ryan Dawes investi...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 08:28
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Justinian Dispenza was one of the original participants in the local Occupy movement. Shortly after the occupation in People’s park was dismantled,...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 08:43
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Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro asks: If the Republicans are so sure of their ideas, why are they so afraid to debate them with President Obama and the Democrats?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro proposes that if Congress is really representative of the people, then its members will give up its overpaid salaries and benefits and ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Big business is as much of a threat to our livelihoods as out of control government, when they can do what they want and steal from us, and get awa...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:16
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
State Senator Joe Carraro meets State Senator Barack Obama. His impression back then plays true to today.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Obamacare was a program put together by and for special interests, without eliminating any of the inefficiencies and corruption that are already pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Lobbyists have corrupted both major political parties to give us the current health care and financial systems we have, and why we have never had t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The definition of a Recession has changed from many years ago. It started during George W. Bush's second term and will continue until all the reso...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
Caption: Ian Masters
William Cohan talks about the soon-to-be-released report arguing the economic collapse was preventable; former ATF Gerald Nunziato on gun laws; Sam...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Ian Masters
The chair of American University in Cairo's Political Science Department on events in Egypt; veteran journalist Charles Peters on Obama; historian ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:02
Caption: Ian Masters
Jonathan Alter talks about Obama's presidency at year 3; Columbia University Professor Kimberly Marten on Chechnya and Russian bombings; Jane Hamsh...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
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Simon Johnson, author of 13 BANKERS, analyzes about banks in American economic life. John Feffer discusses "Arab Democracy Now!" Ted C. Fishman t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:59
Caption: Ian Masters
Craig Aaron of Free Press discusses the NBC-Comcast deal; Gordon Chang analyzes US-China relations as Hu Jintao arrives in Washington; Amy Wilentz ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Ian Masters
"The State of the Dream 2011 - Austerity for Whom?"; Obama's Afghanistan policy; Congress and lobbyists

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 53:55
Caption: Ian Masters
Analysis of the following subjects: Tunisia; foreclosures; MLK Day; the military-industrial complex

  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 54:56
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A Chat with Van Jones

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 05:26
Caption: Barack Obama in Hawaii, Credit: George Waialeale
Family and friends who knew Barack Obama when he was growing up in the Aloha State share their insight about the presidential candidate and how Haw...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2