Health & Fitness | Wednesday, January 2,2008

Untangling the Alzheimer’s mystery

Old age doesn’t cause Alzheimer’s disease

Untitled Document First, let’s clear up a common misconception: Old age doesn’t cause Alzheimer’s disease. Rather, the risk of AlzheimerR

Health & Fitness | Wednesday, January 2,2008

Take a deep breath. Yoga’s easy!

Springfield practitioners say yoga offers a path to better mental and physical health

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Erinn Tanner’s yoga class begins with pupils on brightly colored foam mats, lying flat on their backs, arms at their sides (think starfish washed ashore)

News | Wednesday, December 26,2007

Green day

Third party ballots will cost taxpayers a few greenbacks

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document To get on the ballot in past elections, candidates from the Green Party have first had to beat off challenges from Democrats and Republicans. Now that the

News | Wednesday, December 26,2007

“Whole again”

The IAMG seeks new leader, charts new course

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document The interim executive director of the Illinois Association of Minorities in Government, Jerrie Blakely, says that the embattled organization is “whole aga

News | Wednesday, December 19,2007

Xanadu

Iowa newspaper chain resists employees’ attempts to organize

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Cathy Schwegmann traveled to Bloomington in May and stood on the sidewalk outside the offices of Iowa-based Lee Enterprises’ The Pantagraph, chatting with

News | Wednesday, December 12,2007

Oops!

Researchers uncover the truth about Honest Abe’s law office

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Historians researching the life and times of Springfield merchant Seth Tinsley have uncovered new information about another famous Springfield resid

News | Wednesday, December 5,2007

Exodus

Resignations of SJ-R top brass are just the latest in a long line of GateHouse departures

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document At the end of next week, State Journal-Register editor Barry Locher, who started interning at paper before he graduated from the University of Missouri in 1977,

News | Wednesday, November 28,2007

Change of plans

Friends of murdered reporter denounce Bush’s Mexico-aid program

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Members of the Friends of Brad Will — the Illinois-born videojournalist killed one year ago — recently disrupted congressional hearings on a new sec

Feature | Wednesday, November 14,2007

The state of the State Journal-Register

Industry-wide trends catch up to Illinois’ oldest newspaper

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Almost as if on display, Sue Schmitt and Barry Locher — publisher and editor, respectively, of the State Journal-Register — were seated in the

Feature | Wednesday, November 14,2007

In the black

As dailies falter, Springfield’s African-American-owned weeklies are thriving

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document Neither of Springfield’s two black newspaper owners was lured into the business by the potential for a large profit margin. In 1983, T.C. Christia