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Talk-Line: Brandon Clark on the latest Sterling news · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We're visiting in this half hour with our friends from
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News on the job for us here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one w I x M.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Clark. No relation to Brian Clark. No, there's so
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  Speaker 1: many Clarks out well, you know, because we just shifted
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  Speaker 1: gears from Brian Clark from ABC to Brandon Clark with
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News. I just wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: there was no subgection.
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  Speaker 2: I get asked those questions a lot. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: was related to the Clark Candy Bar guess station Empire yesterdayear,
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  Speaker 2: but I am not dark.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, there you go. Brian is here representing
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News. Pleasure to have you board, sir, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Always a pleasure, and we have some
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  Speaker 1: again news and information to share right up front. Charlene
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  Speaker 1: Bielama usually joins us from Shaw Local News. She's busy
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  Speaker 1: this morning in Whiteside County.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, busy, busy covering the court. So Charlene, you know,
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  Speaker 2: always covers courts. Heavily had some high profile cases that
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  Speaker 2: she's been having to watch, and yesterday she was she
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  Speaker 2: was there till about four thirty, almost four forty five
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  Speaker 2: before she even got out of there and and started
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  Speaker 2: writing and editing. Some of these stories that you've seen
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  Speaker 2: came up either late last night or or today, So
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  Speaker 2: continue to watch for those.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, as our coverage continues in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: She is on the job this morning. She's usually here,
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  Speaker 1: but she's on the job this morning in Whiteside County.
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  Speaker 1: So Brandon has solo duties this morning. Here a day
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  Speaker 1: in fourteen sixty. We're going to stay in Whiteside County though,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to talk about some Sterling information.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sterling's, you know, my primarily my beaten. I've been
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  Speaker 2: kind of heavy on the city side and trying to
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  Speaker 2: dive deeper into the education and Sterling, you know, has
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great programs over at their schools, so
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  Speaker 2: I've been featuring some of those. The Sterling High School
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  Speaker 2: Student Council was kind of cool. They recently donated four
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars to the CGCH Health Foundation through there, crazy
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  Speaker 2: for I want to say, it's Crazy for a Cure.
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  Speaker 2: They do regular fundraising throughout the year. They have two
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  Speaker 2: big events where they hold these at one of the
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  Speaker 2: boys basketball game and a girls basketball game. Lots of
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  Speaker 2: raffles and fun things that happen. So they've been donating
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  Speaker 2: to the CGH Health Foundation for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to help their projects, which includes free mammograms
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  Speaker 2: for women, support items and services for on collegey patients,
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  Speaker 2: the Dementia Project, and so much more. They've got about
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  Speaker 2: fifteen or so projects that that foundation spearheads for the community.
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  Speaker 2: And so those kids were just trying to do their
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  Speaker 2: part to help community health service.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, thanks you wonderful. Again it's a win win and
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  Speaker 1: again with the students and the Sterling schools again kind
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  Speaker 1: of initiating and organizing and fundraising four grant. That's pretty good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a nice chunk of change for CGH again to
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  Speaker 1: move forward. So congratulations to those students involved and again
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  Speaker 1: to CGH on being the recipient of that. What else
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  Speaker 1: you got?
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  Speaker 2: You know, another cool thing happening over at the high school.
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  Speaker 2: You know you remember dissecting frogs and al pellets and
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  Speaker 2: biology class.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, what do you got for?
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  Speaker 2: Technologies come a long way? So Sterling High School students
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  Speaker 2: have what's called an anonymage table, and so this is
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  Speaker 2: a life sized three D dissection table, so it's made
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  Speaker 2: of They took the thousands of two D photos are
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  Speaker 2: taken and layered over over each other, and these are
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  Speaker 2: photos of real cadavers to create life sized three D
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  Speaker 2: representations of the human body. Kids can peel back layers
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  Speaker 2: of the human body, whether it's it's skeletal, muscular systems.
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  Speaker 2: They can see the heart and blood pumping in action.
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  Speaker 2: They can make dissection cuts with a fingerstroke on these organs.
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  Speaker 2: It's loaded with thousands of medical files so they could
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  Speaker 2: see what a brain hemorrhage on a thirty year old
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  Speaker 2: male patient would look like. And it really just takes
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  Speaker 2: biology and the human anatomy to whole nother level. Nice
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  Speaker 2: and again just implemented at they they've actually had it
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of years. And all is nice is
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  Speaker 2: these things aren't cheap. It's about it's seventy, yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: gracious donation by their ABC Boosters club.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, all right, very good. So again you got these
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  Speaker 1: organizations that are going to, you know, the extra mile
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  Speaker 1: to make all of this stuff happen, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: this regard, and I like to see that as well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so congratulations to those that fundraise and again,
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  Speaker 1: very interesting you know, high technology. I mean, we were
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  Speaker 1: getting deeper and deeper into it, Brandon, you know about
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  Speaker 1: more than I do that you know obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with technology the way it is today and with advancements,
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  Speaker 1: and this is going to really help, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: students that really want to kind of pave their way
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  Speaker 1: you know, into those absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You know, They've just got so much going on on.
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  Speaker 2: Several other stories that will be coming out throughout the
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  Speaker 2: week for their So you're going to watch those if
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  Speaker 2: you want to see what your kiddos are up to.
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  Speaker 2: Some very cool things happening at education.
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  Speaker 1: And Sterling Local News. Brandon has the story for us
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  Speaker 1: this morning here at w y X and Radio. Continuing
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  Speaker 1: with Sterling, I think you wanted to mention some funding
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  Speaker 1: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, you know, keeping those schools I wanted. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to keep it positive and not that it's necessarily
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  Speaker 2: down out, but I had really recently done a story
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  Speaker 2: on the federal funding freezes. So like every journalist, we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep up, you know, with the slow of
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  Speaker 2: activity that's been happening at the White House since the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration has taken office. One of those, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is a federal funding freeze that it initially went into
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  Speaker 2: effect in the courts had later paused. So what we've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to do is seeing how you know, those
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  Speaker 2: freezes as well as another story working on about tariffs
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  Speaker 2: are could could and you know, we'll be possibly affecting
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  Speaker 2: the Stuck Valley area. Uh, you know, the nice thing
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  Speaker 2: that people should take an effect or I want to
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  Speaker 2: clarify that schools aren't panicking right now. These things aren't
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  Speaker 2: affecting education, like the National School Breakfast Lunch Program, UH
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  Speaker 2: Title Title one and two funds that schools receive, those
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  Speaker 2: allowed to hire additional staff, tutors, institute extra after school programs,
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  Speaker 2: and support services for students. And while those things aren't affected,
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  Speaker 2: what I want people to be aware of is just
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  Speaker 2: how much the schools and other organizations in the city
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  Speaker 2: and the state for that matter, rely on federal funding.
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  Speaker 2: So should something happen to that federal funding because right
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  Speaker 2: now it just seems like the possibilities for things are
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  Speaker 2: we just don't know what happened where we're all watching,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And so I kind of wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: that scope of, Hey, if this was gone, what would happen?
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  Speaker 2: And the short response is those programs would go away. Students,
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  Speaker 2: all students would have to start paying for those for
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  Speaker 2: their their meals. The prices of those meals would go up,
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  Speaker 2: those support programs would go away, and school class sizes
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  Speaker 2: would likely increase, and you might even see some teacher cuts.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, again right now, the schools aren't panicking,
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  Speaker 2: that's not happening, but you know, just looking at what
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  Speaker 2: that possibly mean. And it's the you know, the same
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  Speaker 2: thing with the tariff. So you know, there was recently,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Trump head has imposed a twenty five percent
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  Speaker 2: tariff on all steel and aluminum imports from any country
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, with no exceptions. And there was also
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  Speaker 2: you know recent tariffs ten percent on China and twenty
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  Speaker 2: five percent on Canada and Mexico. Now the US imports, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know a lot of products, everything from automobile parts
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  Speaker 2: to medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and more. So you know, this
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  Speaker 2: could affect possibly affect a lot of things. And so
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  Speaker 2: I've been trying to reach out to local businesses you know,
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  Speaker 2: who use those products or who also have manufacturing facilities
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  Speaker 2: overseas in those countries who will be you know, may
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  Speaker 2: have to pay extra money now to have those good
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  Speaker 2: ship back here to the US. Ye, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to see what the impact could be and
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  Speaker 2: how they're planning to deal with that. And while I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure there's a number of strategies, one thing that we
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  Speaker 2: all know and that we probably all fears that those
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  Speaker 2: financial burdens could get passed on to the consumer.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so it could come. You could trickle down all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to us. You're right. You know it
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  Speaker 1: started a high level, but you're right, the trickle down effect,
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  Speaker 1: it could affect all of us in the pocketbook in
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  Speaker 1: one fashion or another. So, yeah, it's kind of wait
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  Speaker 1: and see, very much, wait, very much waiting to see
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of legalities involved here. Yeah, those tariffs
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  Speaker 1: on China, Canada, Mexico were i want to say, imposed
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  Speaker 1: on February first. Just a couple of days later, Trump
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  Speaker 1: paused the tariffs on Canada, Mexico following talks with their leaders.
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  Speaker 1: And that seems to be something that is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a repeated trend with you know, whether they're proposed tariffs,
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  Speaker 1: threaten sanctions, is that these things seem to be contingent
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  Speaker 1: if we, you know, might have some successful talk with
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  Speaker 1: their leaders one way or another. So and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's neat though, the insight into the local area. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the impact on the local area, I like absolutely, That's
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  Speaker 1: that's where we're trying to see. You know, everybody's watching
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  Speaker 1: the nation and we do as well, and we share
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  Speaker 1: those stories as well. But I'm really interested to see
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  Speaker 1: how this could could impact home, because it very well
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  Speaker 1: will in one way or another. And like you said,
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  Speaker 1: we're just waiting to see what that is. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of impact could come our way out of
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  Speaker 1: what's you know, being directed, what direction we're going in.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting uh and again uh shaw, local news offering
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  Speaker 1: insights into those areas, you know, even as high as
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  Speaker 1: you know, the federal government down into our local cities
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  Speaker 1: and communities across our local region. So we'll look forward
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  Speaker 1: to you know, that information coming. Anything else you have
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  Speaker 1: to share with us this.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, you know, keep a lookout. I'm also working on
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  Speaker 2: another story. Karina's Law was recently signed into effect by
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  Speaker 2: Governor Pritzker, and so I'm looking to see how that
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  Speaker 2: could possibly impact our local police departments and sheriff departments.
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  Speaker 2: You know, now that it's been clarified that local law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement is going to be the ones who are responsible
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  Speaker 2: for enacting those those when those protection orders are put
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  Speaker 2: in place, and those firearms have to be seized from
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  Speaker 2: the person who had that order placed against them. And
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I want to see do we have
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  Speaker 2: the manpower for this? Is it going to be shorter?
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  Speaker 2: I already know that some departments are not fully staffed.
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  Speaker 2: They have hard enough time as it is, and I
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  Speaker 2: could very well see what this could make it more
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  Speaker 2: difficult for them. I'm you know, not saying that I
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  Speaker 2: don't see where you know, the good that's trying to
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  Speaker 2: be done in it, but here in our SoC Valley
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  Speaker 2: area and law enforcement you know, across the nation, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they have some staffing issues and this just adds to that.
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  Speaker 1: And again how local law enforcement will deal with new regulations.
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  Speaker 1: And we seem to get these every year through the
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  Speaker 1: State of Illinois. So we'll see how they do with
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  Speaker 1: this one. You know, the thought process, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: the good obviously, you know, with with the passage of
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  Speaker 1: something like this has to be kind of scrutinized when
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  Speaker 1: you're considering all of the facets. Absolutely, you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's good intentions, but you know there's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've always got to look at the possibility of
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  Speaker 2: how could this It's it's not to say that it is,
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  Speaker 2: but it needs to be looked at and explored.
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  Speaker 1: And Shaw Local News will be doing that in the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming days, weeks, months ahead, so we'll look forward to
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  Speaker 1: information coming our way with Brandon, with Charlene, with our
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  Speaker 1: friends from Shaw Local News. Sir, thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for the end