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Illini Softball Coach Perry Enjoying Success In First Season
The first-year head coach has guided the Illinois softball team to its most wins since 2010. Illinois Public Media's Jenny Horne has this profile.
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Rauner Pushes Workers’ Comp Reform In Bloomington
Governor Bruce Rauner has taken his turnaround agenda campaign to Bloomington, calling for workers comp reform to save Caterpillar jobs that are moving to Arizona. He also repeatedly avoided answering questions about him not endorsing apparent GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Utilities Try Again For Legislation To Save Clinton Plant
In a new effort to counter losses at two of its Illinois nuclear plants, Exelon is proposing new legislation to offer incentives to those plants plus solar and wind energy producers.
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UPDATE: Rauner Won’t Endorse Trump, But Pence Will
A member of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration says he won't be supporting Donald Trump as the party's nominee for president. The governor's aide also says he will skip the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July.
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Senate Approves 60-Percent Funding For Universities
A $454 million bill to increase funding for financially struggling Illinois colleges and universities has cleared the state Senate. Lawmakers approved the bill on a near unanimous vote and sent the measure to the House on Thursday.
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Black Lives Matter In Champaign Reaches Out To Black Immigrants
Evelyn Reynolds of the Champaign-Urbana chapter of Black Lives Matter talks with Rachel Otwell about her group's efforts to better understand and connect with black immigrants in the community, many of whom are Congolese.
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Illinois Issues: Looking To Pennsylvania And Illinois’ Past To End Budget Impasse
Last November, disgruntled voters in a Rust Belt state beset by economic decline, budget shortfalls and pension woes, booted their incumbent governor — one of the least popular in the nation — out of office.
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Behind The Failure Of The Graduated Income Tax
Despite recent hype over the possibility of legislators putting questions on the November ballot to change the constitution, the Illinois House adjourned Wednesday without even voting on proposed amendments. Their lack of action means voters won't be asked whether they want to change how they're taxed.
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Water Lines Not Only Potential Source Of Lead In Galesburg
Galesburg Register-Mail reporter Marty Hobe says that while tests of Galesburg tap water reveals high lead levels, the problem there is not the same as the problem facing Flint, Michigan.
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Plan To Equalize Illinois Universities’ Stopgap Funding Disparities
Thanks to a law signed last week, Illinois' public universities and community colleges are finally getting state money for the first time since last summer. Now, more could be on the way.