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Restoring a Musical Icon
Story air date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
A musical icon in Champaign is back in place… and the downtown Virginia Theatre will celebrate its new sound with some fanfare this weekend.
Illinois Public Media’s Jeff Bossert explains the process of restoring a nearly 100-year old pipe organ.
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Business Group Argues Against Healthcare Law
Story air date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The National Federation of Independent Business was one of the plaintiffs arguing against the healthcare law before the U.S. Supreme Court. Kim Maisch is the Illinois director of the organization. Mishe said her group wants healthcare reform, but they don’t think it's necessary to require everyone to buy health insurance.
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government • United States • health careHealth Care Advocacy Group: Federal Health Care Law Helping People
Story air date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
As arguments over the constitutionality of the federal health care law continue at the Supreme Court, one local supporter of the law is pointing out its benefits. The group Champaign County Health Care Consumers said even though the law has not been fully implemented, it’s already helping the people they serve. Illinois Public Media’s Jim Meadows spoke with Health Care Consumers executive director Claudia Lennhoff. She had supported a single payer healthcare system, but Lennhoff said the law now in place goes a long way towards improving healthcare coverage in America.
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government • Illinois • health care • people • politicsNeighbors: Meet Mary Ann Pettigrew
Story air date: Monday, March 26, 2012
As part of the series "Neighbors," Illinois Public Media's Celeste Quinn visits Mary Ann Pettigrew, a long-time resident of Danville, Illinois. Pettigrew spent a number of years working as a Registered Nurse for the Santa Fe Railroad, for an oil company in the Middle East and St. Francis Hospital in Peoria. She came back to Danville in the early 1970s and has lived at the house on Buchanan Street ever since.
(With production assistance from Crystal Kang)
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community life • peopleIncoming U of I President Optimistic About University's Future
Story air date: Sunday, March 25, 2012
Robert Easter takes the helm as president of the University of Illinois on July 1, when the resignation of current President Michael Hogan takes effect. Easter earned his doctorate at the U of I in the early 1970s before taking a faculty position there. He recently served as Dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and then interim Provost and Chancellor on the Urbana campus. The university has gone through a rough period over the last few years marked by an embarrassing admissions scandal, and the resignations of two presidents.
Easter will stay on as president for two years, and he tells Illinois Public Media’s Sean Powers that he’s ready to help move the university forward.
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- UI Trustees Accept Hogan’s Resignation, Appoint Easter (Related)
- The University of Illinois' Partnership with India (Related)
