WGLT's Sound Ideas
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WGLT's Sound Ideas is our flagship news program. Every weekday, WGLT reporters go beyond soundbites for deeper conversations with newsmakers, musicians, artists, and anyone with a story to share. This 30-minute newsmagazine is produced Monday through Friday.
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Roy Magnuson and others will steer ISU through generative AI's uncharted waters. On the surface, AI presents a dangerously easy new option for cheating. But the upsides are easy to see too. -
The CDC recently announced a first-ever national campaign to combat health professional burnout. Bloomington-Normal hospitals are making efforts to support workers.
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The new director for the University of Illinois Extension in McLean, Livingston and Woodford counties says she wants to offer agriculture and consumer education in more rural communities.
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The Bloomington-based nonprofit Project Oz will introduce a new program to divert youth from the justice system. It will also expand current services to house more area adolescents.
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Bloomington-Normal may need a different approach to stimulate housing construction. The community first quantified the need for housing in a study a year ago and updated it in June to an estimated 7,500 units.
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Agriculture is big business in McLean County. But it wasn't always that way. And those new to the area probably don't know how the county got where it is. As part of our ongoing Welcome Home series, WGLT dives into the history of agriculture in McLean County.
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Illinois State University music professor Justin Vickers' new CD includes world premiere recordings of Benjamin Britten's "Epilogue," and the English translation of "The Poet's Echo," transposed by tenor Peter Pears — Britten's muse and life partner.
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After Bloomington last year hosted the annual three-day conference aimed at boosting the economic health of downtowns, main streets and commercial corridors across the state, Pontiac hosted this year.
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Painter Tracey Frugoli spent decades honing her technique in landscapes and portraiture. Feeling stuck by the pandemic, she leaned on her art therapy training to go a whole new direction. She'll be featured at McLean County Arts Center's Holiday Treasures.
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Experimental musician Stephen Holliger embraces a blossoming collaboration with Stefen Robinson and Nate Hahn, blending piano, electronics, bass clarinet and pedal steel guitar to create a sound he calls "sad cosmic country."
