Mac Miller Overdose Shows Fentanyl’s Deadly Power
Popular rapper Mac Miller is the latest musician to die after ingesting fentanyl — a grim tribute to the drug’s power. A coroner in Los Angeles says…
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Midwest Voters Weigh In On Pot, The ACA And More
Health care was a big campaign issue across the Midwest, and Tuesday’s election results were mixed. Among the winners: medical marijuana.
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Reporter’s Notebook: The Road To A Story
I’m used to long roads. I grew up at the dead end of a dirt one in rural Montana. For my latest radio story, I drove about 11 hours. Every person I interviewed was a stranger in a town I’ve never been. Mostly, I found them online. Don’t tell my mother. That latest story —…
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High Schoolers To Help At Polling Places In Sangamon County
At the county health building in east Springfield, election judge trainees sit through a presentation and comb through packets of information. On…
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Non-Profit Sues IDOC Over Censorship Of LGBTQ Publications
Knowing there were other transgender inmates in prisons in Illinois and across the country made Leila Lee feel as though she wasn’t alone. She said it…
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Ag Co-ops Are More Than Seeds And Sales, They’re Boosting Rural Economies
Farmers started forming co-ops nearly a century ago, primarily to get better prices for their crops. They pooled their resources, put up storage bins…
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Illinois Sex Ed Law Requires ‘Honor And Respect For Monogamous Heterosexual Marriage’
Lily Furgeson had a great experience in sex ed in middle school. Furgeson, who is a 17-year-old senior at a Chicago Public Schools high school, said her eighth grade sex ed teacher made sure to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identities as part of their curriculum.
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Illinois Early Childhood Educators Share Election Hopes
Preschool is a key part of building a solid foundation for lifelong learning, some experts even say it’s the most important part of a child’s education. And yet, it’s not considered by the state of Illinois to be as important as K-12 education, based on the way funding is allocated.
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Trump Signs Water Infrastructure Bill
President Donald Trump signed America’s Water Infrastructure Act on Tuesday, which authorizes work on many projects around the U.S., ranging from water…
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What The ‘Year Of The Woman’ Looks Like In Illinois
Erin Cetindag and Delaney Flattery stopped by the Sangamon County building to vote early on a recent Saturday. The two college students were home in…
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Forty Percent Of Rare ‘Polio-Like’ Cases Are In The Midwest
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t know why young children across the country are coming down with a rare condition called Acute…
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Teens Are Having Sex And Being Assaulted. So Why Aren’t Schools Teaching About Consent?
The eighth graders who dashed around the classroom sounded like parrots in a pet store. The students asked each other the same question over and over.
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Costco Becomes First Retailer To Control Its Entire Chicken Supply Chain
A handful of companies — think Tyson and Perdue — all but control poultry production in the U.S. They’ll soon be joined by a retailer known more for…
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Putting The Brakes On: Transportation Department Rolls Back Oil Train Regulation
The U.S. Department of Transportation has removed a regulation meant to force trains carrying crude oil or other flammable liquids to adopt electronic braking technology by 2020. Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes — or ECP brakes — are meant to stop train cars and keep them from slamming into each other when a train derails. Illinois…
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Doctors, Patients Sing Art Therapy’s Praises. So Why Isn’t There More Support?
Paulina Nieto, who grew up in Columbus, Indiana, was only 2 months old when she started to have heart problems due to a narrow artery.
