Carbondale City Manager Kevin Baity joins us to talk about issues with toxic water in local creeks, progress on the new firehouse and what's going to happen now that the Carbondale Crime Lab is closed.

 

Republican Congressman John Shimkus joins us to talk about the lasting effects of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's loss in the primary earlier this week.

 
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Michael Gauch is the superintendent of the Harrisburg Community Schools District Unit No. 4. He spoke with Tom Miller about the lack of funds K-12 schools in Southern Illinois has received and whether schools like those in Harrisburg will stay open in the 2016-'17 school year.

 
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Filmmaker William Mitchem Jr joins The Morning Newswatch.

 
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