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The prospect of free money leaves even a Republican Chamber of Commerce stalwart like Mike Houston sounding like a spoils-oriented ward alderman. “Sen. [Dick] Durbin is a very powerful senator,” said former mayor Houston to the State Journal-Register.

The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middleclass jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about efficiency, as though that’s the highest value to which a civilization can aspire.

when tradespeople waiters ushers and such start calling you “young lady” then you know you’re really getting old.

In his “Chance for Peace” speech in April 1953, Eisenhower warned us about the dark road we were traveling, saying, “The best [case] would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples .

Community Shares raises funds to help support these organizations through coordinating and managing workplace giving campaigns, allowing employees of private business and city, state and federal government agencies to donate to organizations of their choice by payroll deduction giving.

It appears that the Illinois State Rifle Association released some highly questionable poll results last week because top officials learned that a gun control group was doing its own polling. The Rifle Association decided it wanted to get ahead of the curve, I’m told.

Dr. Paul Kinsinger, a family doctor in Washington, near Peoria, knew that he needed to find another income stream to be able to continue his independent medical practice without affiliating with a hospital. That’s important because Kinsinger and his partner-brother regard their practice as a ministry, and refer some patients to Christian counselors.

When I met Roosevelt Pratt, the owner of Fashion Afrique, a Springfield ethnic fashion boutique, this Liberian-born entrepreneur had high energy and a beaming smile on his face. Greeting his customers at the door in his dashiki, he makes them feel good about the day.

A March 24 report by Illinois Auditor General William Holland says the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) needs to correct 35 “weaknesses” in financial transparency, rulemaking and more. The report admonishes IPA for storing money outside the state treasury, failing to create an annual budget and even lacking basic office supplies.

Constituting about one percent of total university payroll, the raises were meant to retain staff who got offers at other universities and to reward staff who were promoted, while some raises were required by contract, said UI spokesman Thomas Hardy via email.

Early Tuesday morning, April 5, Carver, along with his son, Bernie Carver, boarded a plane, this time chartered by Land of Lincoln Honor Flight.

He was a lieutenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy and led a small boat transport of troops and wounded men to and from Okinawa. The 88-year-old recalls sailing over the straits of the Solomon Islands, a watery grave for servicemen who had died in the defense of Guadalcanal.

District 186 Superintendent Dr. Walter Milton dreams of a Springfield public school system full of “choice,” with a series of magnet schools, which accept students regardless of where they live within the district, that teach the three R’s with unique approaches and focused missions.

• emphasising standardized exams, like the ISATs, possibly by tying student performance to graduation requirements; • adding more dual credit and advanced placement classes; • requiring seniors to give exit presentations explaining what they’ve...

Asked why he thinks fewer and fewer parents choose Feitshans each year, Milton emphasizes the importance of marketing and perception. “It really required an intense marketing scheme-up to say ‘OK, we have this fine arts academy and our goal is to let the world know that we exist.

A friend laughed when I said I was reading a book about OK. “I can see a paragraph,” he said, “but a whole book?” Well, yes, that is exactly what Allan Metcalf, professor of English at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, has done – written a 200-page book called OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word.

Unfortunately, the movie’s adherence to narrative convention is its undoing during its final act as the Lamberts’ trial ends just as we suspect it will, while a couple of hackneyed choices by Wan (a closeup of hoofed devil’s feet chasing our hero?!? Come on…) undercuts the naturalistic aesthetic he strove so hard to create.

I love ravioli. I’ve always loved them. As a child, they were my inevitably requested birthday dinner. The recipe with a chicken spinach filling came from Italian friends of my grandparents they met when the men worked together in a WWII Joliet defense plant.

The Aspect, conceived as a fluctuating group of musicians chosen for a purposeful project, has concentrated on those legendary lads from Liverpool, The Beatles, for the last few performances.

Dates, times and locations are subject to change, so we suggest calling before attending an event..

Acoustic Celtic Music Session w/ Paddy’s Bargain.

No April Fooling this week. We’re back to the business of selling you, the avid reader and intrepid music listener, on the notion of getting out and experiencing live music with heartfelt passion and genuine gusto. Soon outdoor events will dominate our calendar and a few are happening now, giving proper respect to the vagaries of the weather.

Six performances are slated for UIS Theatre Program’s rendition of Rebecca Gilman’s play, Spinning Into Butter..

Dates, times and locations are subject to last-minute changes, so we suggest calling before attending the event..

ComedySportz, a Chicago improv company, takes on two shows April 9 at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Set up as a sports competition, complete with referee and halftime, two teams of ComedySportz players vie for the win. You, the audience, will shout out plays from the stands (seats) and select the game winner based on who makes you laugh the most.

Medici Chamber Music Society Concert.

For a good cause, you can purchase one of 27 paintings depicting an Illinois landmark painted by local leaders and business people not trained in the arts, but talented just the same. Springfield Art Association hosts its lively public auction led by M.

Diversity, Multiculturalism and Whiteness.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEV- ENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS STATE BANK OF LINCOLN, an Illinois Banking Corporation, and STATE BANK OF LINCOLN as Successor to the JOHN WERNER BANK, Plaintiff, Vs. J.S.P. INVESTMENTS, INC., A/K/A JSP INVESTMENTS, INC.

Tax ID. Number: 22-03.0-137-001 PARCEL 21: Name of present owner of the real estate: JSP INVESTMENT, INC.

Tax I.D. Number: 14-23.0-107-018 PARCEL 78: Name of present owner of the real estate: JSP INVESTMENT, INC. The West Half of Lot One (1) in Block Three (3) of Shutt and Starne’s Addition to the City of Springfield. Common address: 1012 S. Pasfield, Springfield, IL 62704 Tax I.

PARCEL 134: Name of present owner of the real estate: JSP INVESTMENTS Lot 7 in Block 19 of the Town of Illiopolis (formerly Wilson) located in Section 7, Township 16 North, Range 1 West of the Third Principal Meridian, in Sangamon County, Illinois. Common address: 204 S.