Any country’s foreign policy must fit the world that exists, not a world that once existed or one we would like to exist. During the old world of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, only nations, not individuals, were players on the chess board of the world stage.

In Washington and Arizona, where I once lived, you immediately bought a Lotto ticket if you spent less than an hour renewing your license. Missouri was worse. This helps explain why Secretary of State Jesse White so easily won reelection last week. He got nearly 625,000 votes more than J.

My interest in the treatment and control of diabetes began in 1999 when I was first diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I followed the dietary and exercise guidelines promoted by the ADA and the Alliance, and my disease was “under control.” But, as with many Type 2 diabetics, the treatment was not a cure and the disease did progress.

Pritzker floated the idea as a possible way to impose an immediate graduated income tax, which the Illinois Constitution forbids. He said it “could” be done by using exemptions and tax credits for the working poor and the middle class to shield them from higher income tax rates.

The efforts to coordinate and cooperate usually get bogged down for one reason or another, but the good people keep trying again, as they announced they will do at a press conference Tuesday.

There are two key aspects of the Levitt AMP [Your City] Music Series grant. One is to activate an underutilized space – so if Springfield should win, Downtown Springfield, Inc., the Arts Council and the Downtown Springfield Heritage Foundation plan to host free Thursday night concerts on the Y Block next summer.

The “Sustain Springfield Green Map” at llcc. edu/sustain-springfield is a work in progress, but then all good web-based resources are.

Early this month, a Springfield teacher took a group of students to a movie theater to view a popular new teen drama based on a bestselling novel. It was a special screening just for students who had earned the right to be there by reading the book and writing a paper about it.

Since that episode aired in 2013, I had the opportunity to apprentice and later collaborate with Chicago’s Michelin-starred Elizabeth Restaurant’s chef Iliana Regan, a forager herself. Chef Regan is a close friend of Rene Redzepi, and her restaurant put on a sold-out dinner series in Chicago last year recreating Noma’s menu.

Based on the memoir by Jared Eamons, the film examines the confusion he felt from being raised in a staunchly conservative, religion-driven home while having feelings he had been raised to think were sinful and abominable.

Here’s a piece of cool music scene news that you can help make happen: Springfield is in the running for a big-time matching grant from LevittAMP, the folks who like to fund communities looking to host outdoor live music summer concerts.

Roaring up from St. Louis and out into the world, the Jeremiah Johnson Band is poised to set the world on fire with a burning passion for the hot rockin’ Americana blues. Jeremiah, born and raised in St. Louis, moved to Houston in 1999 and scored high in a blues contest there three years in a row.

Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.

acceptance of each other’s grieving process in a safe, caring environment. Free. trinity-lutheran.com. 899- 9418. Trinity Lutheran School, 515 S. MacArthur Blvd., 787-2323..

Do you have an artifact at home that you’d like to learn more about? Bring it to the Illinois State Museum on Saturday, Nov. 17 from 1-3 p.m. for identification by Illinois State Museum staff and other experts. Objects open to identification include art, antiques, anthropological artifacts, rocks, minerals, fossils and bones.