When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990, cities across the country were faced with compliance issues. Barbara McKinney had been hired the previous year as Bloomington’s human rights attorney and was immediately charged with planning how the city would comply with new standards for buildings, sidewalks, parking lots, and city services.
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When it began broadcasting on March 3, 1969, Indiana University television station WTIU had three employees, began its day with the national anthem, and signed off in the evening with the IU alma mater. It was on the air just 29 hours a week.
Fifty years later, WTIU has 80 full-time employees and is on the air 24 hours a day.
When Sylvia McNair began hosting a new program of classical music on WFIU-FM in January, it was a homecoming of sorts. McNair worked at the station in the early 1980s while earning a master’s degree at the Indiana University School of Music.
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After 22 years in the hair industry, Bridgett DiVohl, owner of Royale Hair Parlor, finds she now has time to pursue passion projects that benefit the community.
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Goods for Cooks owners Samantha Eibling and her brother, George Huntington, say there’s nothing quite like the experience of owning—or shopping at—a small, locally owned business.
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