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Politics | Thursday, October 6,2011
Ready, set, GOvern!
Mayor Mike Houston gets high marks for stability. But what about those promises?
Ward 1 Ald. Frank Edwards, never known for holding his tongue, was just getting warmed up.“We should set the goals,” the alderman declared two weeks ago as the city council pondered Mayor
Politics | Thursday, March 31,2011
Who will bring Springfield together?
Leading a community means more than balancing the budget
Every day, the rusty steel rails of the 10th Street railroad tracks carry trainload after trainload of coal, manufactured items and raw materials through Springfield. But those tracks carry more than
Politics | Thursday, March 24,2011
Aldermania!
A ward-by-ward look at the candidates and the issues, from potholes to garbage pickup, sidewalks to the city budget. Politics doesn’t get any more grass-roots than this.
Ward 1: Young newcomer challenges a familiar faceIn 2008, Ward 1 got a Wal-Mart on South Sixth Street. Meanwhile, Mike Crews and Frank Edwards got an election issue. Both alderman candidates highlight
Politics | Thursday, January 20,2011
New kid on the block
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon arrives in Springfield with a legacy, accessiblility and a banjo
The year was 1969 and Sheila Simon remembers fidgeting in her seat as her father, the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon, was sworn in as lieutenant governor of Illinois. Nearly eight years old at the time, Sh
Politics | Thursday, January 21,2010
The man who would be senator
Can Alexi make it to Washington, D.C.?
We meet at a trendy little café on Main Street in Peoria on a cold, sunny Monday afternoon. State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is on the campaign trail, and he has agreed to meet me to talk abou
Politics | Wednesday, January 7,2009
Chinas ethos of piracy
The year 2008 went out with a big bang for Microsoft. On Dec. 31, a court in
China’s southern city of Shenzhen convicted 11 people of violating national copyright
laws for manufactu
Politics | Wednesday, August 13,2008
Flocking to the faith
Why Obama is wrong to pander to evangelicals
In the old days politicians would slip preachers some
hundreds under the table and preachers would deliver the flock on Election
Day. It was borderline illegal, but at least it left the Cons
Politics | Wednesday, May 28,2008
His GOP appeal
Republican crossovers could make Obama the next president
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Rush Limbaugh and some myopic Democrats would have us
believe that most if not all Republicans who have been voting in Democratic
primaries are “dittohead
Politics | Wednesday, May 14,2008
The formula for global despair
Trade agreements, commodity speculators orchestrate food shortages
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Trade
Organization promised that more trade would help eradicate poverty and
hunger. Food crops? Self-sufficiency
Politics | Wednesday, April 23,2008
Bitter? You should be!
The economic pie is growing, but workers get a smaller slice
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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, destiny’s tot, recently
suggested that blue-collar Americans are feeling bitter about their
financial condition, and critics have
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