State Senator Dave Luechtefeld spoke with Tom Miller about lack of funding for K-12 schools  and higher education, and whether lawmakers are working on the budget for FY17 while they're struggling with this year's state budget.

 

Touch of Nature director JD Tanner joins Tom Miller in the studio.

 
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Jackson County State's Attorney-elect Marsha Cascio Hale (D) joins The Morning Newswatch.

 
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Dr. Steven Karau, a business management professor at SIU, joins The Morning Newswatch.

 
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