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If the sky is all clouds and gloom, you can still sing “Shine On Harvest Moon" with Leon Redbone on this week’s Radio Munson. Dianne Reeves is on Don’s playlist and so are Louis Armstrong, Manhattan Transfer, Charlie Barnet and Linda Ronstadt.

It's fun adding decor to our gardens. But go too far and you'll end up in tacky territory.

Today's programming is made possible in part by GLT Day Sponsor Tom Gerschick who encourages you to watch for IWU and ISU students trick or treating tonight to benefit ISU Habitat for Humanity in Bloomington-Normal. All proceeds will defray expenses related to the 24th consecutive student-built Habitat house.

The entry of Portillo's restaurant into Bloomington-Normal appears to have had an unexpected effect on the marketplace.

After years of falling prices for solar power panels, costs have begun rising.

When then Bloomington Alderman Mike Matejka voted on the coliseum contract more than a decade ago he says the city manager gave him assurances receipts would be transparent. Three months later, that changed. Ryan Denham explores missed opportunities to know more as an alleged coliseum theft scandal continues to unfold. Find out if Donald Trump has what it takes to be a good executive manager. GLT’s Judy Valente asks around. Hear how to get your solar power questions answered. There’s a tour of

Forget Miss America. Miss U.S.A., get out of the way! With glitz, glam, lots of makeup and some strategically applied duct tape, Miss Gay Illinois USofA is the queen to beat.

Normal Theater manager Adam Fox has a new role with the Town of Normal that will allow him to help shape the cultural landscape of the community.

To most Americans the "fiduciary rule" on financial planning might not mean a whole lot. But for financial planners, stock brokers, and investment advisors, it's a really big deal.

Donald Trump ran for president touting his outsider status and record as the leader of a vast real estate empire. He promised to apply business expertise to government.

Today’s programming is made possible in part by GLT Day Sponsors Galen and Gail Crow inviting you to the Illinois Symphony “Around the Town” Series free Cello Quartet concert and reception, 7pm, Friday, Oct. 13 at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Bloomington-Normal. Learn more at ilsymphony.org .

The alleged fraud scheme at the former U.S. Cellular Coliseum took advantage of a known blind spot in the City of Bloomington’s oversight of arena finances, exploiting a decade-long contract that many city leaders disliked from the very beginning, GLT has learned.

The Illinois Department of Public Health is doing something that is foreign to a lot of people, urging them to waste water, in some cases. For instance, Justin Dewitt of the Illinois Department of Public Health says slightly elevated lead levels in school water qualify. Ryan Denham has more on the risks and fears of lead in school water. Plus, some Evangelicals are experiencing voter remorse about the Trump Presidency. Judy Valente talks with area pastors about the duty to speak out, and how to

Tommy Castro has incorporated soul and rock into his blues from nearly the time he began playing music. On his new album “Stompin’ Ground,” he overtly tips his hat to the soul and “hippie-rock” he assimilated while musically coming of age in San Jose, California, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A majority of evangelical Christians threw their support to President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, as did a large number of conservative Catholics and mainline Protestants who agreed with candidate Trump's positions on abortion and the economy.