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WGLT's Sound Ideas

WGLT's Sound Ideas

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Sound Ideas is WGLT's signature local news series. Every weekday, WGLT reporters go beyond soundbites for deeper conversations with newsmakers, musicians, artists, and anyone with a story to share. New episodes air throughout the day on WGLT.

2026 WGLT Politics & Government
Episodes
  • How Bloomington might build a long straw to a river to get more water

    How Bloomington might build a long straw to a river to get more water
    May 29 2026

    As the City of Bloomington considers how to get more water so it can grow over the next century, planners could look to the city of Joliet for an example.

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    7 mins
  • Midwest Punk Fest returns with a new home at Meltdown Creative Works

    Midwest Punk Fest returns with a new home at Meltdown Creative Works
    May 29 2026

    After a four-year hiatus, Midwest Punk Fest is back.
    Dirty Rotten Revenge frontman Jeremy Plue launched the regional festival gathering punk and punk-adjacent bands in 2009 at a [now closed] little bar called Coconut Louie's.

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    5 mins
  • Ecology Action Center recommends opting out of electricity aggregation this year

    Ecology Action Center recommends opting out of electricity aggregation this year
    May 27 2026

    The electricity rate that Bloomington, Normal and other municipalities have negotiated for the coming year is not the best deal for consumers, according to an advocate who has run the numbers.

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    8 mins
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