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The award winning GLT newsroom covers central Illinois events and stories important to you at a time when many radio stations have scaled back or eliminated their news operations. Arts Editor Laura Kennedy, Morning Edition Host Jim Browne, Assistant News Director Charlie Schlenker are part of the news team led by News Director Willis Kern. You can see a full schedule of up-to-the-minute spot news coverage throughout the day.
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A display at the McLean County Musuem of History on the square in downtown Bloomington providesgraphic evidence of the emotions surrounding the efforts to desegregate housing in Illinois. WGLT's Jim Browne has more on the exhibit, and how it ties in with similar efforts in the twin cities.
Bird watchers in central Illinois and across North America can step into the role of citizen scientist next weekend.
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. made two appearances at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. In 1966, he told a crowd packed into Fred Young Fieldhouse about his philosophy of non-violence in a world becoming proliferated with violence technology. On this Martin Luther King holiday, we bring you a portion of his address in Bloomington.
After taking a year off, Mitsubishi is back with a presence at this year's Detroit Auto Show. But with sales remaining sluggish, the Japanese automaker still has a long way to go to carve out a larger share of the U-S automotive market.
A professor of English at Illinois State University, who's long been a fan of Lewis Carroll's works, provides perspective to the Oxford professor's writings in a new book of his own.
WGLT's Jim Browne has more.
A forgotten pioneer in education from Bloomington is restored to public consciousness in a new book. WGLT's Charlie Schlenker has more in this interview.
The Salvation Army Red Kettle holiday campaign is continuing. WGLT's Laura Kennedy discovered that there's a little more to it than just standing by a bucket and shaking a little bell. Volunteers have a number of techniques to get you to dig into your pocket.
‘Tis the season to be jolly…and stressed, and short tempered, and doubting of your fellow man. It is, at least if you see the new Heartland Theater production of Santaland Diaries. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more...
When he addressed a joint session of Congress a month after his historic inauguration earlier this year, President Barack Obama set forth an ambitious time table for overhauling a health care system nearly a century without major reforms. With just six weeks remaining until the end of the year, U. S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-IL, 11th) holds out hope a new health care law can be signed before 2010.
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Writer and culture critic Curt White has a new take on the environment, technology, and capitalism. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more on white’s latest book, The Barbaric Heart, largely addressed to environmentalists…
There are numerous and conflicting claims about the meaning of the primary election results in Illinois. Charlie Schlenker has another of WGLT’s periodic talks with an ISU Political scientist to parse the messages voters have sent.
The final media blitz is on in the Governor’s races. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more with ISU Political Scientist and GLT analyst Lane Crothers on what’s happening among the Democrats...
Air Date: 1/19/10 A new year marks a new begining for many, with pledges to lose weight, or quit bad habits. And perhaps begin new and better habits that benefit us all.
WGLT's Jim Browne gets advice from Michael Brown of the Ecology Action Center in Normal on good stewarship of the enviroment and how to help save the world, one person at a time.
The four candidates for the Republican nomination for McLean County Clerk took off the gloves at a League of Women Voters Candidates forum. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more on the race for the job that runs elections, administers birth, death, and marriage records, and figures out the tax bills for McLean County residents.
A photography exhibit opening at the ISU Galleries rebukes stereotypes of mothers at the margins of society. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more...
The Photo Exhibit "Beggars and Choosers" runs through February 11th. Curator Rickie Solinger will give a talk about the exhibit on February 11th and a speech on the fallacy of choice February 12th.
This has been a year of big change in the Bloomington Normal healthcare delivery industry. And that’s even without passage of healthcare reform in Washington.
WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker reports on some of the factors that could impact patients following business consolidations.
The end of the year marks the end of an era for longtime listeners of NPR's Morning Edition. Newscaster Carl Kasell (right, with GLT's Willis Kern) is stepping down.
Hospitals in general have been significant backers of the idea of healthcare reform, citing rising unreimbursed expenses. The new proposal in the Senate version of the bill could change that. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more with two twin-cities healthcare executives.
A band that road the wave of the 1990's swing revival is coming to the Twin Cities as part of a tour in support of their new CD, which spotlights the music of a swing pioneer with a hep attitude. WGLT's Laura Kennedy talks with Glen Marhevka, one of the members of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy about the bands' fascination with the 'Hi-De-Ho' Man: Cab Calloway. (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy performs at Bloomington's Center for the Performing Arts Fri. 12/11 at 7:30 pm.)
Ilan Pappe' is a historian at Exeter University, formerly of the University of Haifa. He is part of the Bone Distinguished Lecturer series at ISU. Pappe' has written extensively about the formation of Israel and the displacement or expulsion of the Palestinians, depending on how one views that history. WGLT's Charlie Schlenker has more on Pappe's perspectives of the peace process.
There are many stories of failed western development initiatives in poor countries. A German businessman who spoke at Illinois Wesleyan University details some wins and some losses in this interview with WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker
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