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Anti-urban urban renewal
In the 1960s and ’70s, the old Levee vice district around Eighth and Washington had been abandoned by all but those people and businesses that had nowhere else to go. Officially declared a slum, the area’s buildings were bought up and torn down to make way for the Downtown Commercial Urban Renewal Project.

Don’t turn out lights on bulb innovation
In a close vote, the House recently passed a provision that undercuts one of the most successful environmental programs of the decade – one that requires all light bulbs – including the incandescent – to achieve higher efficiency levels.

A right-wing jobs program for America
The solution? Our ideologically pure, laissez-fairyland leaders in Washington and various state capitals, along with corporate-funded think tank geniuses and Wall Street gurus, are pushing a massive jobs program across America. Great, just what we need! Uh .

LETTERS
The grandma from England only met Terry one time before this tragic event. His father was deported from this country for criminal activity and never paid a dime for support. Also in the article you say that Terry liked to play Pokemon.

Don’t turn out lights on bulb innovation
we won’t be putting 1 million tons of climate pollution in our atmosphere, which is the equivalent of taking 17 million cars off the road, saving our country money, energy and lives. Certainly, Thomas Edison would have embraced this technology for its energy and cost savings, as he often said, “Waste is worse than loss.

Illinois starts work on health care reform
Magliocco’s dilemma is common, yet there are alternatives on the way under the federal government’s health care insurance reforms. Josephine Underwood is Health Care Justice Campaign downstate organizing coordinator at Illinois Campaign for Better Healthcare (CBHC), the state’s largest grassroots health care coalition.

‘I see a whole lot of opportunity here’
A native of Denmark, Rasmussen moved his family to Springfield in 2009, seeking opportunity, freedom and space to innovate. Now a U.S. citizen, Rasmussen is launching his own public affairs consulting firm in Springfield on Aug. 1, after seven years at another consulting firm.

BUDGET BUDDIES
Are you having trouble making ends meet? Do you often find your bank account empty toward the end of each pay period? If so, there is help available, in the form of a free budget counseling session with ClearPoint Credit Counseling Solutions. The nonprofit’s Springfield branch is moving to 1999 Wabash Avenue.

Activist youth gets involved in Ward 6
“Going to Southeast, we had a lot of Ward 6 students … and a lot of them said ‘our area of town stinks.’ There’s just nothing to do here,” Piper says, listing movie theatres and the mall on the west side as main attractions for young adults.

Celebrating 35 years of fun ways to learn
At Funshop, an early childhood education program supported in part by the Springfield Park District, the “students” are children ages 16 months to 5 years and their parents or guardians. Together they attend weekly classes, encouraged by their teachers to explore the various play stations at their leisure.

The Third Thursday artists
Paris, Florence, Berlin, Rome, New York, Athens – when famed art-related cities of the world come up in conversation, Springfield, Ill., is not generally on the list.

The Third Thursday artists
an ideal location for hosting a free-for-all art show. Like some fantasy dreamland, musicians played inside Norb’s as artists displayed upstairs, while patrons wandered between the spaces and discovered a creative pulse gaining strength in their normally artistically foggy hometown.

The Third Thursday artists
“You have to care about and need to be involved in the place you live in. I’m not from here and now have an instant, just-add-water family of wonderfully weird little artists. I love them,” she says. “This is like a huge life raft that’s lifting us all up.

The Third Thursday artists
views, separate the newcomers from the established groups. The average age of Third Thursday participants compared to the SAA or PAA would no doubt be much lower and the average fees associated with participation in the older associations would certainly be higher than the zero amount needed to show at a Third Thursday.

The science lab at the Statehouse
Today, it’s hard to believe that such a lab would be located in a building frequented by the public, not to mention top state officials. It’s comical to think that as governors and lawmakers examined weighty issues of the day, bacteriologists just a floor or two above them examined spit and, well, poop.

Succulent salads for dog days
These two salads are one-dish meals that require little cooking time. The steak and potato salad requires no cooking at all if the star ingredients are preplanned leftovers; stove time is minimal for the sushi rice salad, too..

Friends benefits from strong finish
Timberlake proves he’s no light comedian as he forces every joke and hasn’t mastered the rapid-fire delivery material like this requires. He’s far better suited for drama, and fortunately this film requires that he display these chops, as the final hour becomes much more serious with Jamie and Dylan’s true feelings finally emerging.

What Dave Littrell sees now
Fans of the local band music scene would be hard pressed to not be familiar with the Station, one of our most prolific and consistent groups of the last decade in the area and on the road.

BAND SPOTLIGHT | Ol’ Red Shed
Sometime in 2006 Kristofer “Coondog” Kunzeman (guitar, lead vocals) looked to memories of his granddad’s traditional country and bluegrass band for inspiration after the demise of his latest metal/punk group. Fellow bandmate David Lawson got a doghouse bass and soon Quincy Watson joined on mandolin to help build the Ol’ Red Shed.

PUB CRAWL
Joe Jack Talcum, The Bassturd, Don’t Mess With Winkie, Our Lady.

PUB CRAWL
The Pimps, Grim, Bodybag Fit For a King, HodFather - Bunkers Bar Throwdown.

THE CALENDAR
Best of Summer Stock Performances.

MUSIC | Electric jazz
Local five-piece Grammy-nominated band David Cain & Senses performs a free concert that includes video and animation at the Hoogland to raise money for the center through donations. Senses might be categorized as playing new wave, ambient, or contemporary jazz music.

THE CALENDAR
Singers alumni, band and past directors. $10 for reserve seating, 422-5911 beginning June 1..

THE CALENDAR
Aug 06, 10am-3pm, Features named cultivars from members’ gardens. Drawing for free $25 daylily. Schaub Floral Display Center, Sportsman Park , 3415 E. Lost Bridge Road, Decatur. Evening Hike- Reptiles.

MUSIC | Springfield idol
As a child, Springfield’s own Elizabeth Eckert was a finalist on Ed McMahan’s television contest, “Next Big Star,” and later sang her way to the Hollywood rounds on “American Idol” season seven. If that doesn’t tell you how much talent she has, nothing will; she out-performed hundreds-of-thousands.

THE CALENDAR
Organizations Sought for Foot in the Door Fair.

FESTIVAL | Meat me in Taylorville
Taylorville Main Street hosts a state championship BBQ cook-off sanctioned by the Kansas City BBQ Society and a backyard BBQ for amateurs. Friday night meet the pro cookers as they prep for the next day, enjoy some barbecue, and hear at 7 p.m. the Screamin’ Vatos, with the sounds of Santana.

THE CALENDAR
Aug 06, 11am-2pm, Contemporary Jazz Brunch with food and Comedian Davey Davey. Tickets at Stpaulamespfld@aol.com. Abe’s Southside Cafe & Pub, 3751 S. Sixth St, 217-529-5511..

NEWSQUIRKS
Curses, foiled again Police arrested Steven Long, 23, in South Daytona, Fla., after he aroused their suspicion by riding past on a bicycle with a 59-inch television wedged between his lap and the handlebars. When spotted, Long ditched the bike and the TV, which was indeed stolen, but was caught while fleeing on foot.

PUBLICNOTICES
DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS...

PUBLICNOTICES
Property Municipality Relief Fund, a special fund , created in the State Treasury. The fee shall be calculated at the rate of $1.00 for each $1,000.

REALESTATE
09-028621 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDI- CIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY, SPRINGFIELD, ILLI- NOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE F/K/A NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, N.A.

AMY ALKON
My wife is co-sleeping — sharing our bed — with our two children. I understand why she sleeps with our baby, who’s breast-feeding, but not why my 6-year-old daughter must sleep in our bed. I’ve quit sharing the “family bed,” as I need my rest. I fully believe that my daughter should go to her own bed now.