Vol. 35, No. 4
A diet to die for
Inmates sue saying soy makes them sick
By Jolonda Young
College loans fall as applications increase
Officials trying to find more money to finish the year
By Amanda Robert
Where do we go from here?
It’s no secret that Springfield is hung up on race. Now at the center of the most recent racial episode, Mike Williams talks about his noose and offers ideas on how to make things better.
By R. L. Nave
Boys gone wild
Women at the CWLP plant also feel singled out
Boy Scouts leave United Way
Organizations dispute how to measure career program’s success
The "anti-Starbucks" Starbucks
By Jim Hightower
Dem bones
Opening a grave for private is illegal. Opening one for public profit is not.
By James Krohe Jr.
Everyone saw a crash coming
Budget disaster demands response from us all
By Henry Bayer
Letters to the Editor 8/20/09
Police funding, health care reform and racism
By Letters to the Editor
Pumpkin Braid
By Julianne Glatz
Judging the fair culinary contest
Tough job, but somebody has to do it
Tearing away the medical mask
Scope, the 2009 SIU School of Medicine literary magazine
By Anita Stienstra
Wife’s time travels trip her up
By Chuck Koplinski
artsycraftsy poem #1
By Jacqueline Jackson
Marvelous mags
By IT PICKS
World wonders
Animal attraction
Final fair fling
By Tom Irwin
Walter Trout
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.
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