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Sound Ideas is WGLT's flagship news program. Every weekday, WGLT reporters go beyond soundbites for deeper conversations with Bloomington-Normal newsmakers, musicians, artists, and anyone with a story to share. This 30-minute newsmagazine is produced Monday through Friday.
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Alternate Alejandro Gómez Guillén vies for Illinois Symphony directorship with season-ending 'Opposites Attract'
The last of four music director candidates takes the podium May 4 for Illinois Symphony Orchestra's season closer. In place of a planned appearance from finalist Naomi Woo, alternate Alejandro Gómez Guillén returns to vie for ISO’s top artistic job.
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At ISU's ReggieCon, video games and comics are a vessel for deeper conversation
ReggieCon returns to Normal this weekend.
The four-day celebration of creativity begins Saturday at Illinois State University, featuring creators and creative thinkers from campus and beyond. There’s a games and comics showcase, a digital music showcase, speakers galore, and panel discussions focused on video games, monsters, and apocalyptic writing, to name a few.
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WGLT's Sound Ideas - Friday 4/26/24
On today's episode, U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen takes part in a bipartisan trip to the southern border, creative thinkers across the country converge on ISU for ReggieCon, plus the final candidate for Illinois Symphony music director prepares for a season-ending performance.
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Sorensen to tour border and Mexico manufacturing areas
This time could be different on immigration. That's the hope Democratic congressman Eric Sorensen has for a trip to the Arizona border. WGLT's Charlie Schlenker reports.
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Central Illinois doctors say long COVID is still hard to diagnose, treat
Central Illinois doctors point out that while symptoms of long COVID, or post-COVID conditions, are detailed, they’re expansive, making the condition hard to diagnose.
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ISU's new president on FASFA delays, equitable public university funding and artificial intelligence policies
Aondover Tarhule, who became ISU's 21st president last month after a year in the interim role, said the university is grappling with ongoing delays in the student aid award process, as well as responding to the prevalence of artificial intelligence tech and a looming drop in graduating high school seniors.
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