Even the most optimistic people caught up in the state budget impasse are beginning to lose patience. ISU President Larry Dietz provides an update of repair work on a damaged higher education system, and why it largely remains un-started. Now in its ninth year, a local flavors farm-to-fork series kicks off tomorrow at an Uptown Normal restaurant that was on the forefront of keeping it local. GLT's Colleen Reynolds takes you to an Uptown favorite. Plus, a conversation with Clifford Close of Sherwood Forest, one of the many bands scheduled to play the free music festival "Make Music Normal" this Saturday.