Activists March To End Illinois’ Budget Stalemate
Springfield, IL (KTRS) Demonstrators are marching to end Illinois’ budget stalemate. About one-hundred activists stepped off on Monday in Chicago for their fifteen day march to Springfield. Participants will march about thirteen miles a day. They are expected to arrive on May 30th, the day before the Legislature is scheduled to end its spring session.…
Mizzou Cutting Budget Due to Declining Enrollment, State Budget Cuts
COLUMBIA, MO. (AP) The University of Missouri in Columbia is seeing the negative effects of budget cuts and declining enrollment. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the university is expecting its smallest incoming freshman class in nearly two decades this fall, with as much as a 6 percent decline compared to last year. Local landlords are also offering…
Boeing Will Assemble T-X In St. Louis If Awarded Contract
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) About 2000 new jobs will be created at Boeing’s St. Louis defense plant if it wins a military contract for its new training jet. Boeing today unveiled its T-X Air Force training jet, and is now vying for a $16-billion government contract to make more. The T-X replaces the fleet of…
Carney interviews Virginia Hanlon Grohl, mother of Foo Fighters frontman
Virginia Hanlon Grohl never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first time, she knew that rock stardom was meant to be for her son.
Carney talks with journalist Sarah Hurst about all the “dead Russians” turning up lately…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been under scrutiny lately for several alarming and mysterious deaths lately, of both Pro-Putin and Anti-Putin activists and high-ranking government workers. Be it from poisoning, falling out of windows, mysterious heart attacks, or good old-fashioned getting shot in the back, many deaths lately have been seen as cover-ups by the…