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On today's episode, four Unit Five school board candidates propose an e-learning curriculum to help plug a budget deficit, Illinois prisoners go back to school to help them when they get out, plus a Black History Month profile on a three-generation family of business owners.

On today's episode, Lyndsay Jones talks to two Unit 5 school board members about proposed budget cuts. Plus, Sarah Nardi has an update on an ISU doctoral student from Ukraine. And meet the women who run a charitable Facebook group in Bloomington-Normal.

On today's episode, you'll hear central Illinois reaction to the draft Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights. Including an interview with Nikita Richards, incoming vice chair of Planned Parenthood of Illinois' board of directors, and another with Supreme Court scholar Meghan Leonard from Illinois State University.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. You'll hear about Normal Mayor Chris Koos appearing on Capitol Hill as part of his bid to join Amtrak's board. Also, an interview with Normal Town Council member Kevin McCarthy about the Wintergreen subdivision's growth.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Wednesday, August 10. A Bloomington High School senior has been appointed to the city's citizen-led police review board. Plus, a look back at the life of longtime Normal town council member and public servant Garrett Scott.

The CDC reverses masking recommendation. Four police officers testify at hearing on the Capitol insurrection. Gymnast Simone Biles withdraws from the individual all-around at the Tokyo Games.

During the pandemic, a nonprofit in Seattle took a different approach to solving homelessness: helping whole encampments of unhoused people themselves make a plan to get housing.

In the summer, Texas drew new lines to help the GOP win in the midterm elections. California countered this week. The Republicans might have an edge in the redistricting battle as it spreads nationally.

With support from both sides in Congress, advocates are still fighting to get the psychedelic drug approved as a mental health treatment, despite its rejection by the FDA's advisory committee in June.

President Trump has slashed the number of people on the Board of Immigration Appeals and stacked it with his appointees, tightening the due process available for immigrants, an NPR analysis shows.