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217 Today: Student journalists at UIUC and Fourah Bay College team up to cover period poverty in Sierra Leone

Kimberly Schofield and Stephanie Mosqueda
 
University of Illinois student journalists interviewed Mariatu Yateh (left), the principal of Education for All, a school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Students (left to right): Faith Lee, Nour Longi, Maggie Knutte, Elena Cleary.

University of Illinois student journalists interviewed Mariatu Yateh (left), the principal of Education for All, a school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Students (left to right): Faith Lee, Nour Longi, Maggie Knutte, Elena Cleary. Alison Davis/University of Illinois

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Today's headlines:

  • The Illinois Secretary of State knows the DMV can be confusing, and he’s trying a new model to fix that.
  • A national consulting firm released the first part of its report about staffing at the Urbana Police Department.
  • Some Champaign-Urbana residents are struggling to afford groceries because grocery prices around the country have risen more than 25% since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
  • Voters in Urbana will see a ballot question in November, asking them if they support an end to federal military aid to Israel.

In today's deep dive, we’ll more about a team of University of Illinois journalists who recently traveled to Sierra Leone to report on the issue of period poverty.

217 Today is produced by Stephanie Mosqueda. Reporting contributed by Alex Degman, Farrah Anderson, John Shay and Jim Meadows.