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Willis Kern
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Husband/Dad, 51 year radio veteran 1975-2025; now WGCU-Florida fill-in. Public radio news director-emeritus WGLT, 7-time loser, 4-time winner-- Illinois AP Best Reporter; #stlcards. RIP my dog Yadi. Know what I'm talkin bout. No DMs.
Yup. No more proof really needed.
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“I’ll have the buffet as long as you have Dim Sum today.”
#WhiteHouse #OvalOffice
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Akayla Gardner is probably a very good reporter but…”Me and my colleague…”

Really? Sigh. #MSNBC #MSNOW
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Red Sox may be shooting for higher than Sonny Gray, but the #stlcards have a “top of rotation” starter and Chaim Bloom could probably decipher the Boston farm system as good as anyone.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The coldest temp in the forecast is 40 early Tuesday AM. The coldest recorded temperature in Fort Myers is 26 on 12/16/1962.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
So some folks are teed off because a shock-value comedian joked about molestation and pedophilia, but are completely ok with voting for a molester and pedophile for president. Got it. #NikkiGlaser #SNL #NBC
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
ZzzZzzZzzZzz.
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
8 and 4 for me! How about you??
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
While recovering from knee replacement surgery, I watched Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite. What an all-star cast, but I sure didn’t expect to see Angel Reese!
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It’s happening. Jamaica is in there somewhere. 🙏🙏
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Wow. Jamaica. 🙏
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
40 years ago today. Fortunately with the institution of replay, MLB had sense enough to award the Saint Louis Cardinals the 1985 World Series Championship (upon further review).
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Prayers for Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is unbelievable.
October 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
At the risk of sounding like a classic boomer, man I love this World Series game 2, with starting pitchers throwing down the gauntlet! #WorldSeries Dodgers vs Blue Jays
October 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
June Lockhart was a rabid supporter of a free and open press. This remembrance of her from my former boss at WJBC, Steve Vogel.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Goodbye to a true legend, June Lockhart, 100 years young. Timmy has lost his “second mother” and so has a generation.
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Powerful truth from Elexis Wilson Thomas via the Bloomington, IL Pantagraph. #WWJD
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Most of the time we were in Rio Nuevo, Jamaica last Feb during Bob Marley’s birthday week, it was too windy for the short boat ride out to the Couples Tower Isle Nude Beach. Seems like the area is about to be hit by #HurricaneMelissa. I hope the island is spared significant damage from the storm.
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
That’s a big peacock! #Peacock #BigSaturday
October 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We arrived in Sacramento on our “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” trip. My U of Illinois grad wife picked the orange vehicle in spot “I11”. #FightingIllini #Illinois

There was no 1N1 spot next to it. 😆
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Some snow in the Sierra Nevadas today shrouding I-80 and Donner Pass road today. #Amtrak #CaliforniaZephyr
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Taking a trip from Chicago to Sacramento on #Amtrak #CaliforniaZephyr to our niece’s wedding. Coors Field, Winter Park.
October 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Good question. I think we all know the answer.
October 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I’m guessing FELOTUS can’t figure out if Norway or Sweden is responsible for him losing out, so he’ll slam 80% tariffs on both of them!
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM