WGLT Newscasts - 3:33pm 6-9-2025

Published Jun 9, 2025, 8:35 PM

This newscast aired at 3:33pm on 6-9-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm Ben Howell, the director of a legal advocacy group that lost a federal grant says there are still more questions and answers after a judge struck down the funding cut. Jenna Kearns says the Illinois Justice Corps first wants to find out when AmeriCorps funding will come back. Then things would look very similar in terms of the structure of like having AmeriCorps members in host locations like the McLean County.

Justice Center says Justice Corps also must decide how it can rehire workers who lost jobs when Doge cut funding in April. In Illinois Wesleyan University physics professor says the Trump administration hard line on new visa applications from international students will hurt technology and innovation in this country. Gabe Spalding says there aren't enough STEM students in the US, so many of the jobs for STEM graduates in this country go to.

International students who stay in the US. Without that cohort, we just will not be able to fill those positions. Spalding says cuts to research dollars, student internships, and graduate student aid will add to the lasting effects on American society.

OSF Healthcare has started consolidating cardiovascular care in Bloomington for patients from East Central Illinois. JT Barnhart is the president of OSF Hospitals in Urbana and Danville. OSF is relocating cardiovascular surgeons and specialists to OSF Saint Joseph Medical.

Center as the medical network ramps up behavioral health services in Barnhart's territory.

We

want to make sure we're putting the right resources, the right services in the right place to uh to best care for for the communities we

serve.

Urbana will focus on inpatient behavioral health care.

Sally Rudolph's political career began in 1969 as an observer watching normal town council meetings for the League of Women Voters. Rudolph will be honored as a McLean County history maker June 18th. Rudolph says showing up remains the best check on local government. It's just people just like.

that are doing good and hard work for the for their um governmental unit, and I think they need to see it. Rudolph spent a decade on the McLean County Board. During her tenure, the board built the Law and Justice Center and the McLean County nursing home. I'm Ben Howell.

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