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Normal Mayor Chris Koos is conditionally endorsing doing away with bus fares in the Twin Cities, but says he still wants to see a concrete proposal before fully committing.
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Illinois candidates for governor talked agriculture policy at an ag sector roundtable Wednesday consisting of more than 100 industry leaders. The session was held in McLean County at Shuler Farms in rural Lexington.
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The first cohort of people representing a partnership between Rivian and Heartland Community College has graduated with skills in electric vehicle maintenance. Eight graduates might not seem like a lot, but Heartland provost Rick Pearce said more will assuredly come.
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A former longtime head of Bloomington-Normal’s bus system has died. Pete Weber was general manager of the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System (B-NPTS) until the end of 2009 when he retired after 35 years with the system.
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President Biden recently nominated the mayor of Normal to a seat on the Amtrak board, which oversees the nation's passenger rail service.
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The first crop of students have begun a course of study at the Heartland Community College Electric Vehicle Energy Storage training program. Eventually they will go out to repair the growing number of electric vehicles in the community.
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llinois Gov. JB Pritzker came to Bloomington-Normal Thursday to celebrate the start of the Electric Vehicle Energy Storage worker training program at Heartland Community College.
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The new Midwestern Regional Rail plan from 12 states and the federal government would take billions of dollars to achieve. But Rick Harnish of the High Speed Rail Alliance said the price tag is a fraction of the cost of building Interstate 55 from scratch.
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Rivian is reportedly in talks to build a factory in England, Holland, or Germany. The U.K. media outlet Sky News first reported on a potential plant near Bristol in southern England and that the British government could contribute more than $1.4 billion to the project.
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Bloomington Normal's public bus system will let people ride free through the end of May.The Connect Transit board renewed the fare suspension to ease the…