Lee Strubinger
Lee Strubinger completed the University of Illinois Springfield's Public Affairs Reporting graduate program and is currently in Colorado.
He went to Illinois State University as an undergrad. He worked for several media outlets, including WGLT (Bloomington-Normal public radio), the Indy (ISU's independent newspaper) and student newspaper The Daily Vidette. He was born and raised in Western Illinois, and has lived in or extensively visited every portion of the state.
Lee enjoys listening to country music on vinyl records, reading modernist literature, wearing denim, and losing at solitaire.
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A South Dakota reservation is the third stop on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's listening tour to acknowledge suffering caused by government-backed boarding schools for Native Americans.
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The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota has banned outside missionaries in response to one evangelist's pamphlet denigrating traditional faith practices.
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Tim Giago, who started some of the first Native American newspapers, including The Lakota Times, died Sunday at 88. He spent decades building a media landscape by and for Native people.
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South Dakota is sheltering billions of dollars in wealth, some linked to individuals and companies accused of financial crimes according to documents uncovered in the Pandora papers probe.
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President Trump is planning to celebrate Independence Day at Mount Rushmore Friday evening. But hours before the event, protesters have blocked one of the major highways into the site.
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City leaders in South Dakota are asking Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, to reconsider her stance not to issue a statewide stay-at-home order. She says she wants to take each situation as it comes. -
The search to replace retiring University of Illinois president Bob Easter is getting underway. Closed door discussions have begun to find the…
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Six months after state law increased interstate highway speeds from 65 to 70 miles per hour, transportation officials say there have been fewer...
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An effort to create a national park at former town site in western Illinois remains stalled in the US Senate. Congressman Aaron Schock, a Republican, is...
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Pike County calls itself the "pork capital of the world." However, in an area so tied to farming, it might be a bit surprising that a local school...
