Jim Meadows
Reporter at Illinois Newsroom
Reporter at WILL-TV (Urbana, IL)
Reporter at WILL Radio/Illinois Public Media since 2000.
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1 week ago |
m.farms.com | Jim Meadows
By Jim MeadowsThe Feed the Future Initiative helped connect agricultural research at 17 labs — based at land grant universities throughout the U.S. — with foreign partners in an Obama-era effort to address global hunger. Now only one of the innovation labs is receiving federal funding. The Trump administration paused funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development in January, followed by a near-complete dismantling of the agency this spring, including the Feed the Future program.
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1 week ago |
ipmnewsroom.org | Jim Meadows
https://ipmnewsroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/herffJones.mp3CHAMPAIGN — Herff Jones, the Indianapolis-based maker of graduation caps and gowns, class rings and other items celebrating the school experience, is moving out of Champaign. The company announced Monday in a news release that it had begun the process of closing its cap-and-gown plant on North Market Street and would expand its operations at its other cap-and-gown facility in Arcola, 40 miles to the south.
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1 week ago |
wcbu.org | Jim Meadows
The Feed the Future Initiative helped connect agricultural research at 17 labs — based at land grant universities throughout the U.S. — with foreign partners in an Obama-era effort to address global hunger. Now only one of the innovation labs is receiving federal funding. The Trump administration paused funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development in January, followed by a near-complete dismantling of the agency this spring, including the Feed the Future program.
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1 week ago |
kosu.org | Jim Meadows
The Feed the Future Initiative helped connect agricultural research at 17 labs — based at land grant universities throughout the U.S. — with foreign partners in an Obama-era effort to address global hunger. Now only one of the innovation labs is receiving federal funding. The Trump administration paused funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development in January, followed by a near-complete dismantling of the agency this spring, including the Feed the Future program.
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3 weeks ago |
ambushmag.com | Jim Meadows
Robert W. Fieseler is a local journalist and historian whose first book, Tinderbox, won multiple major awards and has become the preeminent publication on the topic of the UpStairs Lounge fire.
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On June 9 1922, a University of Illinois professor demonstrated an early version of an optical sound track for motion pictures. https://t.co/IsvHTZYJ9U
RT @AP: India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims https://t.co/tQZwwLu6tZ
Illinois Public Radio Statehouse reporter @Alex_Degman reports a lockdown at the state Capitol building.
The Illinois Capitol has been locked down for the last few minutes with a message circulating over the PA to shelter in place. Not sure what’s going on — anyone out in the halls or near the doors that saw what might have caused this?
