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New Champaign Co. Nursing Home Admin Outlines Goals
Story air date: Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Like other nursing homes, the Champaign County Nursing Home has faced delays in state payments, numerous complaint investigations and trouble with staff retention. The Champaign County board hired a management firm to address these problems in 2008, and a week ago a new administrator stepped in at the nursing home. Effingham native Chuck Schuette replaced former administrator Andrew Buffenbarger, who took another position within the management firm. Schuette spoke with CU-CitizenAccess reporter Pam Dempsey about his plans for the job.
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government • Champaign County • health care • peopleNew Crop of Auditor Candidates Seek to Replace Fabri
Story air date: Monday, November 07, 2011
Champaign County citizens will choose an auditor next year in the March primaries and the November election, and at least four candidates have been collecting petition signatures to get on the ballot. Illinois Public Media's Jim Meadows reports.
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government • Champaign County • people • politicsGetting Rural Residents Where They Need to Be
Story air date: Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District gives passengers about 10 million rides each year. But as Dan Petrella of CU-CitizenAccess reports, for Champaign County’s rural residents, getting where they need to go isn’t as easy as walking to the nearest bus stop.
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- Rural Poverty Presents Unique Challenges (Related Story)
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community life • government • Champaign County • United States • transportation • urban planningLIFE ON ROUTE 150: Rural Churches Look for Ways to Survive
Story air date: Friday, June 24, 2011
In rural towns throughout Central Illinois, deciding where to attend worship service today could mean giving up youth activities or choir for a smaller service, or sacrificing a local connection to seek out parishioners of a similar age in a large congregation. As part of the series, ‘Life on Route 150’, Illinois Public Media’s Jeff Bossert looks at rural churches, and what some in the region are doing to survive in today’s climate.
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community life • economy • government • Champaign County • religionCherry Orchard Landlords to Stand Trial for Code Violations
Story air date: Wednesday, April 06, 2011
The Cherry Orchard Village apartments lie just south of the abandoned Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul – and like the base itself, Cherry Orchard has seen better days. Now the two landlords who manage the eight-building complex are charged with failing to maintain it – to the detriment of its tenants, mainly migrant worker families. Illinois Public Media’s Sean Powers has been collaborating with the investigative journalism group CU-Citizen Access. He reports on the legal battle to bring Cherry Orchard up to code.
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(With additional reporting from Pam Dempsey and A. H. Gorton of CU-CitizenAccess)
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