Get your swag on — responsibly

STD screenings offered this weekend

Only fools flush down

County asks residents to keep drugs out of the water system

E-cycle your E-waste this E-arth Day

To most people, being green just means replacing your old light bulbs with compact fluorescents, reusing plastic grocery bags, turning off the water while brushing and placing your empty

Sub conscious

Despite national trend, Springfield area school districts don’t see increase in substitute teaching applicants

“Oh, I’ll just sub.” At some point, the thought of substitute teaching enters the mind of every unemployed worker and fresh-faced college graduate not sure of what to d

The ABCs of school board candidates

Meet the people who want to guide Springfield schools

My kids don’t go to the public schools. I don’t have children. There’s an election? Despite routinely encountering the preceding rejoinders, the four individuals r

“Visioning” the possibilities

Community work sessions on future of Springfield schools begins this week

A group of about 100 local residents will begin meeting this week to help make a decision about the future of district buildings, including Springfield High School. The residents received

Where ideas begin to grow

Inventors and entrepreneurs call for business incubators

For Springfield inventor Ron Earley, like many others, the sweet gum tree in his yard was a real pain. Commonly referred to as “ankle-breakers,” the tree’s spiked globula

Let’s talk about sex

HIV/AIDS advocates demand increased healthcare access

As fate would have it, hundreds of middle- and high-schoolers lined up to enter the Capitol last week as HIV/AIDS advocates from around Illinois held a rally just a few steps away. Rally

Illinois gets ready for carbon limits

Cap-and-trade worked for acid rain, but will it work again?

Notice that nobody talks about acid rain anymore? That’s because in 1990 Congress implemented a “cap-and-trade” program for emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide

Students with HIV, report to the principal’s office

Mandatory reporting requirements discourage students from being tested

Twenty years ago, when the Illinois General Assembly approved a law requiring that school principals be notified whenever a student tests positive for the human immune deficiency virus, i