Category: Morning Newswatch Podcasts

Dollar General is expanding because rural America is struggling.

Joey McLaughlin talks the Illinois bicentennial, agriculture and the legalization of marijuana with Illinois State Representative Tim Butler.

This Christmas supplies of live trees are tight.

Joey McLaughlin talks with with the Associate Publisher of the Springfield Business Journal,  Michelle Owenby about the new issue of the SBJ that is on the street now.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Bobbie Littlemore about Slumberland and Parent Help Line at St. John’s Bed Donations.

For clues to what may happen to all of those empty big box stores and ailing shopping centers where people once swarmed, look to the shopping districts in the suburbs of Detroit.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Springfield Ward 1 Alderman Chuck Redpath about the Springfield city council meeting.

Joey McLaughlin talks with the Jay Landers with the Salvation Army in Springfield about the Tree of Lights, the Red Kettle campaign and the  63rd annual Senior Luncheon coming up at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Joey McLaughlin talks with “Motown the Musical” cast member Erick Patrick (David Ruffin, Jermaine Jackson, Rick James, Pop Gordy) and Kai Calhoun (Lil Berry Gordy/Stevie Wonder/Michael Jackson).  the show is a Sangamon Auditorium for two performances starting tonight.

The biggest risk to Donald Trump’s presidency may be Special Council Robert Mueller and the high profile investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election which has already lead to criminal charges against two Trump campaign advisors and a guilty plea from a third.