SQUEAL LIKE A PIG They’re known for in-your-face tactics, but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ latest pro-vegetarian campaign may do as good a job of arousing Christians as it does meat-eaters. This week, just in time for the Easter holiday, PETA says it purchased billboard advertising at Stevenson Drive and South Sixth with […]
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Letters 4-1-04
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 MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE Thank you, Dusty Rhodes, for the cover article, “The […]
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Quick Takes 4-1-04
LOCAL YOKEL YODELER Springfield resident and occasional Illinois Times contributor Randy Erwin Skalicky will be heard on the big screen this weekend in the new Disney musical, Home on the Range. The plot centers around a trio of bovine bounty hunters trying to capture cattle rustler Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid). Slim’s secret weapon is his […]
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People’s Poetry 4-1-04
Portrait I used to carry in the pocket of the brown waist coat given to me by my father, a man of muscular build and little patience for that which he had modest understanding, especially issues of foreign policy and affairs of the heart, of which my mother is guilty of being susceptible, dangling her […]
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Quick Takes 3-25-04
THE LIST Protesters in Springfield marked the one-year anniversary of the war on Saturday by reciting the names of Illinois soldiers who have died in Iraq. When the candlelight vigil at the Capitol was planned, there were 21 names. Last week, the name of Sgt. Ivory L. Phipps, 44, was added to the list. Phipps […]
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Letters 3-25-04
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 JUSTICE NEEDS HER BLINDFOLD The system of justice here in Springfield can […]
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Letters 3-18-04
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 MAYOR DEWITH-ANDERSON? I applaud Illinois Times for its investigative articles on Joe […]
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Quick Takes 3-18-04
DOG BITES Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Andy McKenna stopped Sunday at Oak Ridge Cemetery to rub Abe’s nose for luck. It didn’t work — not for McKenna. But the campaign stop gave Springfield resident Liz Eilers a shot in the limelight. The Chicago Tribune needed a hook for its coverage of the waning days of […]
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Quick Takes 3-11-04
TIME FLIES On March 17, 2003, President Bush delivered a 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: Leave Iraq or allied forces will make you leave. But there never was any question that the U.S. would attack. Just days before the war began, administration sources told the New York Times that the U.S. and Britain would enter […]
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Letters 3-11-04
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 THE SNOWBALL CANDIDATE This is a response to Charles Hershey [“Dennis the […]
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People’s poetry
Reel Time Streetlights shine off February streets, slick between early spring rain — mid-winter thaw This day slips past me, steals time from us as Evening’s hours march quietly toward dawn Carry along dreams of sunshine behind Dark clouds shouldering aside morning’s light Grey-sky greets the day, pushes me toward work Away from the couch, […]
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U. S. Senate candidates
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES Seven Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination for U.S. Senate. GERY CHICOwww.gerychicoforsenate.comAge: 47Occupation: Attorney. Former board of trustees president, Chicago public schools. Former chief of staff to Mayor Richard Daley.Education: Bachelor’s in political science, University of Illinois at Chicago. Law degree, Loyola University.Residency: Chicago.The gist: Chico has reached out to teachers […]
