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News | Thursday, March 22,2012

The wild blue yonder

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport goes where no airport has gone before - the airline business

By Bruce Rushton
What do the Wright brothers and Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport have in common?Both are aviation pioneers.The Wright brothers succeeded, but it remains to be seen whether the Springfield airport&rsquo
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News | Tuesday, March 20,2012

Buried

Oak Ridge Cemetery has serious financial problems

By Bruce Rushton
Oak Ridge Cemetery is short more than $900,000, and city taxpayers could be on the hook.The cemetery has six-figure shortfalls in two funds, one set up to pay burial expenses for consumers who have pu
News | Thursday, March 15,2012

Sewer upgrade estimated at $65 million

By Bruce Rushton
Rates will rise to pay for sewer upgrades aimed at preventing sewage from reaching the Sangamon River, under a plan submitted to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency by the Springfield Metro S
News | Thursday, March 15,2012

Parachutes get more golden at GateHouse

By Bruce Rushton
While revenue, circulation, stock price and profits plummet, top executives at GateHouse Media, corporate parent of the State Journal-Register, are getting bigger bonuses and cushier golden parachutes
News | Thursday, March 8,2012

End of the line?

The governor wants to close Tamms

By Bruce Rushton
Fiscal reality might finally accomplish what lawsuits and appeals to conscience could not.Gov. Pat Quinn says he wants to shut down Tamms, the state’s supermax prison about 100 miles north of th
News | Thursday, March 8,2012

Bullish on Springfield

By Bruce Rushton
Christopher Stone bets big.A newcomer to the real-estate game, the Springfield lobbyist heads a group of investors that has bought up some big chunks of fallow real-estate in recent months, including
News | Thursday, March 1,2012

Funeral finance fiasco

Millions are lost when greed replaces common sense

By Bruce Rushton
There is no shortage of blame and stain in the saga of a failed trust fund once administered by the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.Alleged villains range from Merrill Lynch, which has agreed t
Opinion | Thursday, March 1,2012

Suing the city

By Bruce Rushton
I hate meetings.The tortured kabuki theater that is your typical city council/zoning commission/pick-a-public-body meeting rarely sets hearts afire. The script is usually bad, the bureaucrats, inevita
News | Wednesday, February 29,2012

Fagan arraigned in Ostermeier case

By Bruce Rushton
The man charged with murdering Jade Ostermeier and her infant daughter Alexis more than a year ago made his first court appearance in the case today.Eric A. Fagan, who is facing a life sentence in the
News | Thursday, February 23,2012

The second time around

Prosecutor loses driver’s license after latest DUI arrest

By Bruce Rushton
A veteran prosecutor has lost his bid to keep his driver’s license after refusing to take a breath test after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in January.Michael Vujovi