The Tapper It took them three years to drain the maple tree to death. Fifty holes drilled in rings upon rings to count a year of dying; fifty taps driven, fifty buckets hung mocking armor, into which the sweet water relentlessly dripped. Through cold nights and warm days, a steady patter; each bucket filled, removed, […]
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quick takes 8-5-04
THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER Missouri Democrats on Tuesday nominated a central Illinois native as their candidate for U.S. Senate. Nancy Farmer, who grew up in Jacksonville, will challenge Republican incumbent Christopher ‘Kit’ Bond on Nov 2. Farmer comes from a working-class family: her father was a farmer and worked at a grain elevator, her mother cleaned […]
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letters 7-29-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com BUS SCHEDULE IS ATROCIOUS I’m listening to Illinois Times on the radio […]
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quick takes 7-29-04
INVASION OF THE POD PEOPLE Last week, Illinois Times published a letter to the editor from Dena R. Scott of Champaign. She praised President George W. Bush’s record on the economy and noted, among other things, that the president “has outlined a six-point plan to create even more job opportunities for America’s workers.” On Monday, […]
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quick takes 7-22-04
GEORGIA ON HER MIND Like many of the rumors that have circulated about Renatta Frazier — the famously former cop rousted from the Springfield Police Department on the basis of false accusations — the one about her using her settlement check from the city to buy a house in Panther Creek is patently untrue. Frazier […]
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letters 7-22-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com FREE FRANK’S LEGACY Francis “Free Frank” McWhorter paid to have the ground […]
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Letters 7-15-04
We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address, and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length, and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705 Fax: (217) 753-3958 E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com HUFFING AND PUFFING In fact, it is very doubtful that many people mourn the […]
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Quick Takes 7-15-04
HOLD THE PICKLE A documentary about a guy who gorges on fast food — and blimps up as a result — won’t be showing at area movie screens this Friday. No, we’re not talking about hefty filmmaker Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11, has been extended for another week by Kerasotes Theatres. The film that has […]
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Earth Talk
Dear Earth Talk: Are raw foods healthier to eat than cooked foods? — Kris Amitzboll, Coledale, Australia Proponents of raw foods, which are sometimes called “living foods,” believe that raw foods are much healthier for the body than cooked or processed foods. Followers of diets based wholly or largely on raw foods claim numerous health […]
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letters 7-8-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com BENEATH HIS DIGNITY While your article on Robert Pulliam was interesting, I […]
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quick takes 7-8-04
SOUR CLOUT In a close race, Central City Neighborhood Association last week changed its name to something with more flavor — Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association. As one of the most vocal and active such groups in Springfield, it only makes sense that they would chuck the blandly alliterative appellation for a more titillating title. Still, […]
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quick takes 7-1-04
CONVICTION OVERTURNED Students in the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project at University of Illinois at Springfield celebrated a victory last week when the Fifth District Appellate Court set aside the murder conviction of Julie Rea-Harper. She is serving a 65-year prison sentence for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son, Joel Kirkpatrick. Tommy Lynn Sells, a […]
