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After 77 years of heavy federal restrictions, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to introduce the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, a bill that would remove hemp from the controlled substance list.
Union faculty at Western Illinois will vote later this month on a possible strike.
Authorities in Illinois are keeping an eye out for synthetic cannabinoids, which recently killed three people and caused severe bleeding in more than 100 others in the Chicago and Peoria areas.
Anna Troutt says she loves poetry—but unlike art, she says it is hard to find and even harder to consume. However, the University Laboratory High School Student says she thinks she can bring together the community through poetry.
On the 21st: Public schools in Illinois are finally getting their first payments under a new formula, and superintendents in the state are hopeful. Also, the question of reconciliation at Christian colleges between LGBTQ students and religious values. Then, a look into synthetic marijuana and its harmful, and now fatal, effects.
