On today's episode, a campaign is underway to save an old water tower in one McLean County village, U.S. Rep Eric Sorensen expresses fading optimism about a budget deadline ahead of a potential government shutdown, the National Climate Assessment calls for hotter summers and wetter springs and winter, plus a celebrated composer Omar Thomas returns to ISU to reprise a hit that helped launch his career.

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