Tim Alexander
CorrespondentTim Alexander is a correspondent for WCBU. He joined the station in 2022.
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The homecoming for the 57 year-old singer, guitarist and songwriter was witnessed by several thousand appreciative festival goers, including Allison’s mother, Fannie Mae, and several siblings and relatives.
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Armstrong told WCBU that he developed a love for broadcasting at an early age while growing up on a farm in southern Indiana.
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Copi, the Midwest waterways nuisance fish formerly known as Asian carp, is enjoying a surge in popularity as a human food source in the United States.
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Local produce farmers, poultry and meat producers will have a permanent outlet for their excess food products at local food banks through the Farm to Foodbank Act (HB-2879), which was signed into law on Aug. 3 by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
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The plan was developed following discussions, exercises, input and results of the county’s strategic planning initiative from 2021 to 2023.
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A large number of Peoria's south side residents feel an underground, high pressure CO2 (carbon dioxide) sequestration pipeline laid in proximity to some of Peoria's oldest and poorest neighborhoods is a bad idea.
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the proposed standards would eliminate 7.3 billion tons of CO2, equivalent to four years worth of the entire U.S. transportation sector while saving lives through reduced air pollution.
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Over two decades ago, Nancy Long envisioned a local retail gift store that would exclusively offer products that were produced by underdeveloped nations where workers, many of them modern-day slaves, were denied fair wages and living standards.
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Leaders from the state’s farm commodity groups fear that if crops don’t receive increased precipitation in the next three weeks, drought could severely affect yields and serve to push consumer food prices even higher.
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While the adoption of cover crops-- defined as an overwintering crop raised for the protection and enrichment of the soil-- and other agricultural conservation practices by farmers will not completely eliminate dust storms, widespread usage of sustainable conservation practices by farmers could reduce the chances of another deadly dust storm occurring.