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Springfield joins global action for climate change
Glaciers that provide drinking water for hundreds of millions of people are disappearing more rapidly than originally predicted. According to the United Nations, 325 million people are already affected by drought, disease, floods, loss of livestock, decline of fish stock and loss of agricultural productivity.

UIS, the educational city
I complained here recently that the University of Illinois at Springfield’s recently adopted master plan will make the future UIS campus the kind of sprawly, inchoate, inefficient place that alert urban planners everywhere are abandoning. (“Stuck in the ’70s.

Obama must get going on jobs
Five days before taking the oath of office, Barack Obama called on the millions of people who had actively campaigned for him to be the engine for real change in America: “I don’t want them to just sit around and wait for me to do something. I want them to be pushing their agendas.

LETTERS
I catch heat on Facebook, Myspace Blog, etc., because people still believe the idea of Obama and the actual Obama are the same president! Even though I am African-American, I am critical of Obama because I expected the actual to have the courage to embrace the idea.

tolkienpoem #2
in a blizzard I once chased a car all the way across town trapped him in his driveway his license said elrond if I have to tell you who that is you shouldn’t be reading this I invited him to our lothlorien banquet to be held in my attic the...

Hoffman in the hunt; Dillard gets a bounce
Hoffman’s survey of 505 likely Democratic primary voters was conducted Oct. 2-4 by Hart Research Associates. The initial head-to-head has state Treasurer Giannoulias leading with 18 percent, followed by Urban League President Cheryle Jackson at 7 percent and 5 percent for former Chicago Inspector General Hoffman.

Capitol coal plant exceeds pollution limits
The state Capitol’s steam plant exceeded limits on some pollutants in 2007 from its coal-burning boilers, and it may still be polluting too much. Located on Klein Street north of the Capitol, the Capitol Complex Power Plant burns coal, oil and natural gas to heat and cool the Capitol complex.

BLAZING A NEW TRAIL
Lynn Miller, a Springfield Bicycle Club member, says the trail also faced permanent closure until U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., stepped in to help. The senator also helped add a new loop along the west side of the future Legacy Point that features a tunnel and bike bridge.

MOVE OVER ABE
But the Bartels say they would like to do more with their artifacts.They are planning a museum dedicated to the pop culture of the ’50s and ’60s, which they say would be a great fit for Springfield..

Free cell phones and service
Jose Fuentes, TracFone’s director of government relations, announced earlier this month that the company would add Illinois to the list of 17 states that offer SafeLink Wireless — a new extension of Lifeline, a government program that has provided affordable landline telephone service to low-income families for 25 years.

Ashland employee sues village
Dale Naylor, a former employee of Ashland’s public works department, leveled allegations of discrimination against his former employer in federal court in August saying he suffered “great mental anguish, fear, humiliation, degradation, physical and emotional pain and suffering, lost wages and other consequential damages.

DNR reconvenes Conservation Congress
After a five-year hiatus, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources will reconvene its Conservation Congress, a two-day conference that brings conservationists and recreation advocates together to discuss future opportunities for the agency and for the state.

Censored!
“I really think we’re beyond reforming corporate media,” said Phillips, a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and director of Project Censored. “We’re not going to break up these huge conglomerates. We’re just going to make them irrelevant.

In memoriam: Gourmet magazine, 1941-2009
It was in a Kroger grocery store in Champaign, I stopped dead by the periodical rack, my eyes drawn to a beautiful magazine cover: a brass knocker festooned with a festive holly sprig, bright against its dark-painted door. Aside from the date — December, 1973 — the only other thing on the cover was the word Gourmet.

RealCuisine Recipe
After my husband’s mother died the year after we were married, he said he’d like to find or make cranberry sorbet, something she’d always made for Thanksgiving. It had always been one of Peter’s favorite parts of the meal, but now it would also be a way of remembering her.

Odd pacing nearly trips up Wild Things
Max (Max Records) is a precocious preteen with a lot on his mind. Dealing with his parents’ divorce, a sister who ignores him and a mother who’s spread too thin (Catherine Keener), he’s left alone a good deal of the time. His vivid imagination helps him fill the void but he feels a great deal of anger and frustration because of his situation.

Movie times
PLEASE NOTE: Kerasotes listings are for Friday, Oct. 23 through Tuesday, Oct. 27. Bracketed show times are Saturday and Sunday only matinees or Friday and Saturday only late shows. All times are subject to change. For updates on Kerasotes films, call 1- 800-FANDANGO.

Online IT, open mics and other stuff
Next week the Best of Springfield issue hits the streets and as always is highly anticipated, especially among the entertainment field participants. Let’s just remember we’re all winners here, but then again, it sure is nice to be number one. But I brought up that popular part of Illinois Times.

BAND SPOTLIGHT
Lyman Ellerman, a Riverton area native, moved to Nashville, Tenn., several years ago to pursue songwriting as a career. Though the persistent and vibrant songster has yet to score a major cut, the intense workout of songwriting on a daily basis honed his already sharp composing skills and increased his song output immensely.

PUB CRAWL
6:30-9:30pm. Jazz Etc Happy Hour - Frank Trompeter Quartet with Becca Young.

THE CALENDAR
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HISTORY
Springfield Art Association opens the Edwards Place Home’s stately doors Thursday evening to offer nighttime guided tours to families. The old mansion’s 15 rooms full of Victorian furniture and history come to life with friendly ghosts and other surprises.

MUSIC
Bring the kids in costume for this interactive, thrilling music and story concert with multiaward-winning artist, Dave Rudolf. Your goblins could be dancing on stage with Dave to “The Frankenstein Dance,” “The Ghoul Limbo,” or the “Monster Mash” as bubbles brew.

MUSIC
Granddaughter of legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp, whose story inspired The Sound of Music,.

PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE UNDER ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME ACT STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF SANGAMON TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that on 25th day of September, 2009 a Certificate of Ownership of business was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of...

THE ADVICE GODDESS
My 31-year-old boyfriend has the best clothes, cars, electronics, takes me to the nicest restaurants...you get the picture. He told me he was “an investor,” working for himself, making online investments. I eventually asked how he could afford his lifestyle in this economy.

NEWS QUIRKS
When police went to a home in Regina, Saskatchewan, looking for David William McKay, 28, a man matching McKay’s description answered the door but said his name was “Matthew,” which, when asked, he misspelled. The Regina Leader-Post reported police also noticed he had the name “David McKay” tattooed on his back.

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