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Champaign County has already hired a firm to broker the sale of the Champaign County Nursing Home. But Democrats blocked the formal call for potential buyers in October, when the proposal failed on a mostly party-line 11-11 tie, with Pattsi Petrie (D-Champaign) joining Republicans in supporting it.. On Tuesday night (Jan. 9th), the county board will look at the proposal again.
On the 21st: President Trump announced that his administration will end the Temporary Protected Status program for more than 200,000 Salvadorans in the United States. Plus, the mayor of Quincy joins us to talk about the status of a veterans' home in his town where 13 people died from Legionnaires' disease. We also learn how automatic voter registration will be implemented, and about how local educators in southern Illinois are teaching the Trail of Tears, which ran through that part of the state.
The Mayor of Quincy says politicians should focus on taking care of veterans at the state run home in his town and not on blaming others for political gain.
While many of us hated the cold weather of the last three weeks, thee brutally cold weather DID provide a benefit we’ll see in the spring and summer.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District is getting ready to offer help filling out applications for medical cannabis. That's because people are getting ripped off, according to Public Health administrator Julie Pryde.
