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UIS, the educational cityAge-inappropriate literature The Illinois budget is brokenThree into one won’t go‘Great Refrigerator Roundup’ is a bad bargainTaking the Christian out of the YMCALife in the Big House Who gets the last word?Remember to not forgetSlower than a speeding bullet
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, April 21,2011
The bridges of Sangamon County
What to do when a bridge can carry more history than traffic?
Usually, making a Top 10 list is cause for congratulation, but not when it’s Landmarks Illinois’ annual list of most endangered historic sites. In March, the preservationist group named to
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Friday, April 15,2011
Undercount
Does low turnout threaten representative government?
Forget one-person-one vote; we are moving toward a one election-one vote future. The turnout of registered voters in Peoria for April’s municipal elections — and remember that not all qual
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, April 7,2011
Relying on Senator Santa
Wishing won’t get a new rail corridor built
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,&
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 31,2011
Big deals about little games
Looking back on high school sports rivalries
Finally. The Springfield High girls beat Glenwood at soccer the other night, after nearly a decade during which Chatham girls played Mike Madigan to the conference’s legislative rank and file. T
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 24,2011
‘I’m all right, Jack.’
Reflecting on the Forbes billionaires
Years ago, when I kept an office downtown, prurient curiosity caused me to drop by the PO every once in a while to check out the creeps on the FBI’s latest Ten Most Wanted list posted in the lob
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 17,2011
Chicagoland, Chicagoland
The rise of the Chicago city-state
While the pundits debate whether Illinois is leaning to the left or the right, the U.S. Census Bureau, deciding on better evidence supplied by the 2010 population count, has concluded that Illinois is
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 10,2011
A school by any other name
The perils of naming public buildings in a fastidious age
The good people of Chatham have built themselves a second public elementary school, to give their young the skills they will need to someday leave Chatham. The usual sorts of names for the new school
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 3,2011
Living too high off the hog
Springfield’s booming health care economy can’t keep living like this
Springfield has become to sick people what Decatur is to soybeans, a major regional processing center in which raw materials are processed by the latest in high-tech machinery into novel products such
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 24,2011
‘A neat and appropriate address’
Lincoln’s farewell to Springfield as a Guinness gag
When I lived on the east side in the 1980s, I often walked past the building now called the Lincoln Depot on my way to and from downtown. Many’s the time I found myself having to wait while a fr
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 17,2011
Sacred documents
Why the Constitution is not our political holy book
At my age, “constitutional issues” usually involve medicine, not the law, if only because the other kind are so complex that thinking about them makes my head hurt. A boyhood reading of Th
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