Category: Morning Newswatch Podcasts

Joey McLaughlin talks with NASCAR XFINITY Series driver and Riverton Native Justin Allgaier about his upcoming home-town race at Chicagoland Speedway.

There has been no shortage of splashy and controversial headlines during the not yet seven months of the Trump Administration. But with all of that it’s easy to miss what the administration has been doing behind the scenes.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Illinois State Senator Andy Manar about the Illinois Senate SB1 veto override.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Lt. Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti about Governor Bruce Rauner signing Senate Bill 3 that will make it easier for local officials to consolidate units of local government.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Rebecca Wattleworth, a Teach Plus Illinois Teaching Policy Fellow. She teaches 9th through 12th grade math and science at Warrensburg-Latham High School about Senate Bill 1.

If you went to the movies this weekend, there is a good chance you saw “Annabelle: Creation”, a spin off of “The Conjuring”, which pulled in 35 million dollars at the box office making it easily the top film, and giving the lagging box office a shot in the arm.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Mike Allison about the craft beer competition at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield Friday through Sunday, August 11-13 where breweries from around that state compete for their entry to become the official Illinois bicentennial craft beer.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Carly Stroud (Jan) and Cynthia Reynolds Higginson (Miss Lynch) from the cast of “Grease” which opens tonight at the Springfield Muni.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Nan Kording at the Illinois Times about things to do in central Illinois this weekend other than the Illinois State Fair. 

It is generally believed that foreign adversaries deliberately test a new U.S. President early in a new term.