Maybe you’re one of the 2 million Americans who’ve recently had their jobs offshoredto India, Pakistan, or elsewhere, or one of the millions more whose jobs are expected to be shipped abroad in the next few years. If so, don’t worry, Bucko, for a new growth industry has arisen that offers exciting job opportunities. You, […]
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Enough trash talk
If talk picked up trash, Mayor Tim Davlin would have the town clean by now. All year he has been talking to neighborhood associations about his big plans to reform Springfield’s municipal waste system. This summer he convened a series of meetings with landlords and neighborhood activists. I attended as a representative of The Springfield […]
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letters 8-26-04
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 VOTE FOR ME: I WRITE LETTERS The Republican Party needs to rebuild […]
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Partial disclosure
Jack grew up in Springfield, graduated from high school, joined the Marines, and became a military police officer. After being honorably discharged, he enrolled in college, got a degree in criminal justice, and found a job with the state. In 2001, when he saw a chance to join the Springfield Fire Department, Jack applied, partly […]
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Fleecing America’s soldiers
It’s been said that you don’t know what hell is until you’ve had an insurance salesman in your living room, prattling on eternally about term-life annuities. But I’ve recently learned about a deeper level of hell reserved for insurance-company hucksters who — get this — are ripping off America’s young soldiers. Companies such as American […]
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letters 8-19-04
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 STRANGER THAN FICTION After reading about Alan Keyes in John Wilson’s article […]
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Deal with it
Word from on high is that the U.S. Senate’s Republicans are planning to contribute lots of money to candidate Alan Keyes. It’s not that the national pooh-bahs actually believe Keyes can win, mind you. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a sane person to predict that. Then again, what sane person could have predicted a month […]
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letters 8-12-04
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 WHEN ADULTS GO BAD This comment is regarding the “Unplugged” article by […]
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The rush is on
Something major is taking place in our country that corporate chieftains don’t want us talking about: jobless creep. It’s no longer blue-collar families who are seeing their jobs hauled offshore to faraway havens of low-wage production. Now it’s hundreds of thousands (and soon to be millions) of well-paying white-collar and high-tech jobs that are being […]
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Schools need courageous politics
Conventional wisdom in Illinois says that politicians who take politically difficult positions are doomed to defeat, but the late Paul Simon always challenged that. “It is not true,” he boomed back to me not so long ago, after I had voiced the cynical view. He said if you’re honest with voters and make a case […]
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Can CWLP go green?
City Water, Light, and Power wants to build a new coal-fired power plant to replace two aging electric-generating units. Over the past year, the Springfield City Council’s utilities committee has convened meetings to evaluate the overall scope of the project. So far, much of the discussion has centered the size of the plant, the location […]
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letters 8-5-04
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 CLUB 10 OWNERS APPLAUDED Thank you, Illinois Times, and Todd Spivak for […]
