This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, March 13th, 2025.

In today’s newscast, we welcome back Dr. Joey Ballard, a longtime advocate for healthcare reform, on Prescription for Healthcare – a monthly podcast in collaboration with Medicare for All Indiana. More in today’s feature report.

Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB’s Youth Radio Correspondents take a look at Bloomington’s junior roller derby team, the B-Town Banshees.

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Now, it’s time for Prescription for Healthcare, a monthly collaboration with Medicare for All Indiana. Tonight, we welcome back Dr. Joey Ballard, a 2024 IU School of Medicine graduate now in residency at the University of Illinois Chicago. A longtime advocate for healthcare reform, he led Students for a National Health Program in Indianapolis and recently appeared on the national podcast An Arm and a Leg to discuss his work within the American Medical Association. Stay tuned for that conversation—coming up next.

Up next, we take a look at Bloomington’s junior roller derby team, the B-Town Banshees. Youth Radio reporters Ollie Schnell and Bree Callahan visited their skills camp at Western Skateland to learn how the team is building a new generation of skaters. That story, coming up next.

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