Find out if the opening of the new Portillos is a big deal. It is online and in social media. Ryan Denham talks with Nate Carpenter from ISU's Social Media Analytics Command Center. Portillos opens today. Find out if a 10th century German emperor has any resonance today. Charlie Schlenker talks with ISU history professor and author of a new biography of Fredrick Barbarossa. And Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner is in the studio to talk about a trip to Japan, the Downtown Bloomington Association, and proposed assistant.
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