Dean Olsen

Beginning at age 10, Nathan Jones accompanied his father, an Effingham optometrist, on medical mission trips to Honduras. As a young adult, he flew on helicopters to care for car-crash victims during residency training in Peoria on his path to becoming an emergency medicine physician. In recent years, he has helped save lives in Springfield […]

Suzanne Moss doesn’t see the need for Illinois to become one of the first states to explicitly allow pregnancy resource centers to be fined for deceptive practices. “I find it very odd,” said Moss, education program coordinator of Two Hearts Springfield, one of three such pro-life pregnancy centers in the city. “I don’t know any […]

Almost 90% of Illinois’ 1,443 documented cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, have been reported in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. But public health officials also want people in central and southern Illinois to consider getting vaccinated against mpox, depending on their risk of contracting the potentially deadly virus. The Illinois Public Health […]

A recent decision by the Illinois Labor Relations Board siding with the Springfield firefighters’ union will give the union an opportunity to advance its proposal for a city-operated ambulance service to supplement private ambulances, the union’s president says. Kainan Rinaberger, president of Springfield Fire Fighters Local 37, said the ruling will allow its members with […]

Steve Jones wants residents of his rural subdivision five miles east of Springfield to tell the Sangamon County Board May 9 they don’t want a solar farm a half-mile or less from their homes. “I’m not against alternative energy,” the retired union sheet-metal worker told Illinois Times. “The big thing we’re worried about is taking […]