WGLT's Sound Ideas - Full Episodes

It's a show full of heroes, fictional and real. An art installation offers a wish for peace as it honors Americans who have fallen in combat. Army Veteran Bob Carney and other tell Laura Kennedy about the healing cranes of Heartland Community College. Eric Stock talks to Veterans about how they reintegrate into civilian society and the reception they get nowadays. The Illinois Symphony Orchestra plans a concert full of Super-heroes with a salute to veterans. And Darnysha Mitchell tells about

Another pedestrian fatality on Veterans Parkway raises safety concerns. Ryan Denham reports. Plus, the Town of Normal is getting ready to revamp its bicycle and pedestrian plan and the public has shown a lot of interest in trail crossings over the years. Town Engineer Ryan Otto and planner Mercy Davison when their way through a bike plan interview with Mary Cullen. A public radio investigation into Commonwealth Edison showed the utility paid a lobbyist more than $3 million bucks... a lobbyist

When a Bloomington resident began an abolitionist society before the civil war it did not sit well with community leaders. Susan Hartzold is the curator of a new exhibit at the McLean County Museum of History on times of conflict. She talks with WGLT. Plus, Children's Home and Aid beefs up its Adopt a Family program for the holiday season. Mary Cullen reports on heroes of habitat for humanity, And its a noteworthy anniversary for world famous explorer John Wesley Powell with a Bloomington Normal

Hear the principal songwriter for the Bloomington-Normal pop-rock quintet SHERWOOD FOREST tell a tale of a medieval soldier who dies in war. Clifford Close digs into Sherwood Forest's struggles. Plus, Laura Kennedy takes us inside a new art exhibit that involves music influenced by war. Our gardening podcast Grow lets us know we're not quite done with gardening for the winter...sometimes you garden NOW for the spring. And Correspondent Breanna Grow interviews a TedX Normal speaker about the case

Normal Mayor Chris Koos talks about property taxes and the status of the Trail East project. WGLT's Ryan Denham reports on the growth of dual credit classes in McLean County. And Mary Cullen has another episode of McHistory, about one of the area's first female news reporters.

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal will be just fine in today's changing media landscape. But no one is talking about the small towns. Emmy winning journalist Soledad O Brien talks with Eric Stock. Plus Normal Town Council member Karyn Smith takes exception to the conventional wisdom on calculating public benefit and outside investment in Uptown Normal. And WGLT Correspondent Breanna Grow tackles artificial intelligence and its potential to transform the future.

Every time our nation goes into a period of torturing opponents, it seems like an extraordinary need. Historian Fitzhugh Brundage talks with Charlie Schlenker about the American tradition of torture. Plus, community college enrollment fell again this year. Ryan Denham talks with the director of the Illinois Community College Board. And Laura Kennedy brings us a story of hedonism, apathy, and totalitarianism that still has legs, Cabaret.

WGLT's Eric Stock visits the new VA outpatient clinic that opens in November in Bloomington. You'll hear from a scientist on the front lines of pushing more representation in the STEM fields. And two writers from Normal are in studio to promote this weekend's Local Author Fair at the Bloomington Public Library.

A lot of people think affordable housing will attract riffraff. Not so much. Larry Pusateri of the Lightengale Group, says $ 50 thousand annual household income could be, well, YOU. WGLT gives you a five part series on affordable housing scarcity, helping felons get housing, housing vouchers, and re-housing. It's a full newsroom effort. Plus, Jon Norton brings us a new live recorded album from Hot Sauce Universe.

Music didn't always sound the same as it does today. The ways musicians tuned the notes were different. And it's getting that way again. Author Kyle Gann tells us about the Arithmetic of Music. Plus, Ryan Denham talks cannabis and other issues with Bloomington City council member Julie Emig. And we dive into a new policy treatise on funding municipal government, 'The People's Money.'