News | Wednesday, July 2,2008

Don’t just blame the uninsured

Health-care justice advocates seek to dispel myths

Untitled Document Retired coal miner Paul Perrine says he can’t get health insurance. Perrine, 52, who worked in the mines for 30 years and has hurt his back on sev

News | Wednesday, July 2,2008

Hoping for a U-turn

Traffic-safety workers seek to block governor’s relocation proposal

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Trevor Halfacre, who has severe scoliosis and a muscle condition known as arthrogryposis, uses a motorized wheelchair and has a personal assistant who shuttles

Feature | Wednesday, June 25,2008

The Rico Act

Springfield’s teenagers say there was nothing to do here — until he came along.

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Just past midnight on a chilly February night, Club Chrome is heating up. The nightclub on Springfield’s south side is packed to the g

News | Wednesday, June 25,2008

Perfect storm

Company dissolves; plans for ethanol plants scrapped

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Heartland Ethanol LLC has jettisoned plans to construct seven ethanol plants around Illinois, including one in Waverly, in nearby Morgan County. Walker

News | Wednesday, June 18,2008

So fresh and so clean

The road to cleaner air starts in the Soy City

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Beginning next week in Decatur, Illinois environmentalists will try to rally support for a tough set of regulations on greenhouse-gas emissions with a series of

News | Wednesday, June 18,2008

“Such a horrible thing”

Exhibit commemorates one of Springfield’s most painful moments

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Many of the visitors attending last week’s preview of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library’s exhibit on the 1908 Springfield race ri

News | Wednesday, June 11,2008

Gas pains

Coping with high fuel costs is more difficult for businesses

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Like everyone else, the high price of gas has forced Robert Smith to do more with less. Whereas most people have adjusted by parking the RV and canceling the fa

News | Wednesday, June 4,2008

Still trapped

Payday lenders escape tougher regulations for the time being

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document At least until the Legislature reconvenes in November, or Gov. Rod Blagojevich calls lawmakers back to Springfield for special meetings, Illinois re

News | Wednesday, June 4,2008

Pity the fuel

Corn-based ethanol continues to take a beating

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Not even $4-per-gallon-gas has been able to resuscitate the nation’s corn-ethanol industry, which slumped in 2007 as the price of corn, the country’

News | Wednesday, May 21,2008

Bugle boys

For Bill Bullard and his two grandsons, honoring vets has become a family tradition

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Morrisonville is the kind of Midwestern town where a basketball goal stands in every driveway, an American flag adorns every porch, and, residents j