After interviewing renters and city and county officials in Springfield and other major cities with established centralized database systems for routine landlord housing inspections, including photos and code tracking methods, several issues have come to light in Springfield. We are at risk by not requiring annual rental inspections and our current system of tracking code […]
Anne Logue
Anne Logue is on the boards of both the Faith Coalition for the Common Good and Sustainable Springfield, focused on environmental justice. She is also working with an eight-group coalition working to bring Springfield into a clean energy transition.
Posted inOpinion
New growth downtown
Competency, courage and integrity of leadership are quickly apparent in the treatment of the urban core. A tone is set every day for those who live there and visitors considering Springfield as their new home. Springfield deserves leadership that has the courage to reinvest in historically neglected areas, the wisdom to treat one another with […]
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Springfield’s trees get new respect
James Krohe Jr. grasped the critical importance of green infrastructure and the danger neglecting it when he wrote, “The problem is less how we build sewer systems than the way we build cities” (“Going against the flow,” Illinois Times, Aug. 11, 2011). The Springfield Urban Forestry Commission clearly understands this and recognizes trees as a […]
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Unclear about EmberClear
An Illinois Environmental Protection Agency hearing for EmberClear’s natural gas plant air permit was held Nov. 17 in Pawnee. It was unusually warm that evening for mid-November, with one side of the auditorium packed with union workers, opposite a smaller group objecting to the permit. EmberClear’s project is now called Lincoln Land Energy Center. EmberClear […]
