- ground is broken for a new bacon plant, - Texas sends a busload of immigrants to Chicago, - arrests for a 2021 murder in Clinton, - and a gubernatorial candiates visits eastern Iowa this weekend.
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.