Category: Morning Newswatch Podcasts

After decades of resistance to sports gambling team owners and leagues are laying the groundwork for it with big potentially huge implications like more jobs and new tax revenues.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder about Illinois State Senator Andy Manar’s Plan to fund a Southern Illinois University public policy center in downtown Springfield.

Joey McLaughlin talks with HCI Alternatives CEO Chris Stone about medical cannabis under the new Opioid Alternative Pilot Program.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Illinois Times Publisher, Michelle Ownbey about upcoming entertainment options in Central Illinois.

The federal government releases its broad measure of the January labor market today. What will it tell us?

Joey McLaughlin talks with Clearinghouse Manager and Statewide Amber Alert Coordinator Illinois State Police Clearinghouse for Missing Persons, Craig Burge about Silver Search Illinois.

Joey McLaughlin talk with Springfield Business Journal Publisher, Michelle Ownbey about commercial construction in Springfield and the SBJ’s winners for Best Places to Work.

To hear the White Hose and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill tell it, the just concluded 115th congress was a master class in bipartisan achievement, the numbers tell us something all together different.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Springfield Ward 7 Alderman Joe McMenamin about the Springfield City Council meeting.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Rebecca Howard who is a  clinician at SIU Center for Family Medicine and director of the Kids Health Harbor program about medical care for foster families.