Vol. 31, No. 48
Different wavelengths
A no-bid project with built-in flaws is coming to downtown
By Bruce Rushton
Still fired up
As one veteran retires, city picks up pace of black-firefighter recruiting
Price of freedom
Suspect finds its costly to trade words with a cop
By Dusty Rhodes
Net monster
Craigslist adds the capital city to its growing empire
America is a rainbow
Local students promote racial unity and understanding through art and poetry
Deadbeats or Dead Broke?
A new state law recognizes that many Illinois parents who dont pay child support are simply too poor to meet their obligations.
By R. L. Nave
Grape expectations
Illinois wineries say lawsuit from afar could cripple them
Beat the heat
Global-warming documentary hits close to home
Meeks speaks
Defends effort to force the governors hand on education
By Rich Miller
Shells game
Complaints about ethanol may have merit
A third way in Illinois
This may be the year when the Greens should be taken seriously
The Indelible Stain of Gitmo
Bushs torture camp in Cuba must be shut down
By Jim Hightower
When todays 65 is yesterdays... 65!
Note to self: Television doesnt resemble reality
By Doug Bybee
Raising the bar
Why we expect more on the war from the good guys
By Diane Hughes
Letters to the Editor
In and around Springfield
Letters to the editor
A passion for potatoes
Dont take Americas favorite vegetable for granted
By Julianne Glatz
Cooking for the cook
Guess whos a pain in the ass?
By Kim ODonnel
The return of the bugs
Those pesky Japanese beetles and bagworms are back
By Jennifer Fishburn
Recycling tires
Despite progress, North America still faces a backlog
Rocky's Road
The hairy tale of a missing raccoon
All Altman
Ridiculing societys foibles a joy to behold
By Marc Sigoloff
Fast-Forward Click
Another potentially good film ruined by juvenile humor
By Chuck Koplinski
Jacqueline Jackson
Strangledcrypoem #2
American Life In Poetry
edited by Ted Kooser
No pain, no gain
Evangelista is not an easy listen, but its cathartic
By René Spencer Saller
Captain Rat and the What?
The band known for its onstage shenanigans hits town Saturday
By Tom Irwin
VINYL STATIC
Freak folk here to stay; India.Aries back
By Marissa Monson
Solving a noise problem
Get sound-control windows, build an earth berm, or move
By Gene Austin
Webb Wilder
@ Boondocks
Fri., March 29, 7 p.m.
Photographing history
By Dean Olsen
John Mellencamp more than rocks
My curriculum not the reason kids can’t read
By Lucy Calkins
Home alone
By George Pawlaczyk