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Jul 26, 2019
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Under the Dome Podcast: Joe Crain’s new job, insensitive posts, dirty tricks
On this week's episode of Under the Dome, Bernard Schoenburg and Doug Finke cover former meteorologist Joe Crain's new job at the state and more.
ALPLM hires former meteorologist Joe Crain

Former WICS-TV meteorologist Joe Crain, who was ousted in June after criticizing the station's "Code Red" weather alerts, has been hired by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Davis volunteer — a former GOP staffer — fakes way onto Londrigan call

Democrats are decrying as a dirty trick the fact that a former top staffer of the Illinois GOP pretended to be a college newspaper reporter and got caught.

Illinois pension buyout program savings fall short

A pension buyout program offered to participants in the three largest state retirement systems in an effort to save Illinois hundreds of millions of dollars.

SIU, UIS, Sangamon County pushing for downtown Springfield ‘mini-campus’

A broad coalition is forming to push for state funding for a joint campus in downtown Springfield, to be shared by UIS and SIU.

State trooper’s name added to ISP memorial wall

When picking a date to hold a ceremony commemorating his wife, fallen Trooper Brooke Jones-Story, at the Illinois State Police Memorial Park, Robert Story ...

Gun dealer: New Illinois law will ‘put a hammer’ on us

One local gun dealer called a new Illinois law requiring his business to get a state license "another state tax they've shoved down our throats."

Pritzker calls for political civility, defeat of Trump

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday that civility has to return to the nation's politics, but he doesn't see that happening until President Trump is out of office.

Illinois Republicans pull ‘jihad squad’ post after criticism

CHICAGO - Top leaders of the Illinois Republican Party launched an effort at damage control Sunday after a social media post.

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