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‘Bikes of Bust’ bicycle fundraising event starts at Uptown Station

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Highway 98 Country radio’s Bo Reynolds took to the sky at Uptown Station on Friday morning to help ensure local children have something special waiting for them beneath their Christmas trees this year.

Highway 98 Country radio host Bo Reynolds checks out the view from atop a construction lift at the start of the station's annual "Bikes or Bust" event at Uptown Station. Reynolds will spend 98 hours living atop the lift in order encourage listeners to donate bicycles to Emerald Coast Toys for Tots.

“Let Bikes or Bust 2022 begin,” Reynolds said to an assembled crowd in the shopping center’s parking lot, as he fired up a construction lift and rode it about 40 feet into the air. Reynolds will stay atop the lift for 98 hours straight, encouraging listeners, businesses and community members to donate new bicycles and help out Emerald Coast Toys for Tots.

It’s the 11th year that

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Illinois radio station adopts Trump falsehoods to appeal to the right

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October 26, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

A sound room at the Great Plains Media building, where Cities 92.9 broadcasts, in Normal, Ill.
A sound room at the Great Plains Media building, where Cities 92.9 broadcasts, in Normal, Ill. (Jamie Kelter Davis)

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NORMAL, Ill. — When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign bus came to town recently, the local conservative talk radio station covered the event, dutifully informing its audience on social media that “counter protesters were in attendance.”

The “counter protesters” were the radio station’s employees. They mugged for photos in front of the governor’s bus, held up signs that said, “Fire Pritzker” — then turned around and covered the Democrat’s

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