Vol. 31, No. 29
Can spring be far behind?
Local peace groups to present Winter of Our Discontent
By R. L. Nave
A few good men
Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin looks at Lincolns inner circle
By Corrine Frisch
Melancholy genius
Recent Lincoln books look inside his Cabinet and his head
By Todd Volker
Feats of strength
Military police say fitness requirement could cost jobs
By Dusty Rhodes
Storm sirens over Taylorville
Area scientists ponder unique, historic storm
By Scott Maruna
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Is he getting out while the getting is good?
By Bruce Rushton
Jury deadlocks
New trial set in another ISP retaliation case
School of hard knocks
More poor and homeless kids strain the public-education system
By Linda Hughes
Crackpot
Gubernatorial candidate threatens to sue Ohio lawyer who questions his residency
Punt!
City council tables budget
Hostile environment
Ray Coleman and other black ex-employees accuse the Department of Natural Resources of discrimination
Pigs, ice cream, and socks
Snapshots of the Great Emancipators life, set to verse
By Dan Guillory
Smoke gets in their eyes
Efforts are afoot to blow holes in the citys new smoking ban
Going negative
Trailing GOP candidates may be tempted to get down and dirty. They shouldnt.
By Rich Miller
Days of whines and poses
States wine industry turns table on beer guys
Spyin and lyin
Bush isnt much of a president, but he deserves credit where its due
By Jim Hightower
Illinois, poverty capital of the Midwest
Smoke-and-mirrors budgeting sends lives up in smoke
By Fletcher Farrar
IRS goes after poor folks
With Bush & Co., them thats got is them that gets
The duck, the shtick, and the best valentine ever
Sister Serene was magic and my first valentine
By Doug Bybee
Competitions limits
Dont blame Kerasotes for the state of independent film in the capital city
By Marc Sigoloff
Losing proposition
Funding education isnt a good enough excuse for state-sponsored gambling
By Collin Hitt
Letters to the editor
In and around Springfield
Care of fresh-cut flowers
Keep those Valentine's Day roses looking fresh
By Jennifer Fishburn
Earth Talk
From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
A killer friendship
The Matador offers is a well-written, fully realized relationship between two guys
By Chuck Koplinski
Selfish and self-deluded
Woody Allen's Match Point suggests that justice doesn't always prevail
The Return of Dune
David Lynch's much-maligned excursion into sci-fi weirdness was an aberration
Hoffmans Capote
Its hard to imagine another actor playing the role of the quirky, complicated author
Jacqueline Jackson
lovepoem #5 (technopoem #2)
By Jacqueline Jackson
travelpoem #3
Not just crying Woolf
Cindy Woolf performs with the Mark Bilyeu Band on Saturday
By Tom Irwin
The Peter Principle
Nice Peter does his thing at Marlys on Thursday
Guided by Pollard
In a parallel reality, the former Guided by Voices frontman is a rock god
By René Spencer Saller
Blind Joe Death lives
I Am the Resurrection isnt your typical tribute album.
Sunshine 66 Hotel Music Festival
@ Route 66 Hotel and Conference Center
Fri., March 29, 5 p.m.-3 a.m. and Sat., March 30, 12 p.m.-3 a.m.
My curriculum not the reason kids can’t read
By Lucy Calkins
PILLSBURIED: Art, artifacts and curiosities from the former Pillsbury site
By Karen Ackerman Witter
Springfield man charged with operating six "houses of prostitution"
By Dean Olsen
John Mellencamp more than rocks