The former YWCA building near the governor’s mansion may or may not be demolished. Photo BY BRUCE RUSHTON A courts complex. A condo building. A museum. A parking lot and the former YWCA building near the governor’s mansion that together consume a large city block have seen a lot of proposals come and go […]
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Getting up to speed
Illinois may soon join the rest of the nation and allow motorists who commit minor traffic offenses to keep driver’s licenses that are now sometimes confiscated on the spot by police officers. The archaic practice, said to date back to the 1950s, can be costly both for license-less motorists forced to obtain state identification cards […]
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Deputy’s discipline overturned
An arbitrator has found that the Sangamon County sheriff’s office metes out harsher discipline to female deputies than male employees. The finding comes in the case of Sherry Waldron, a former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy terminated in 2012 for allegedly stealing plants from a Sherman park while on duty. Shortly after she was acquitted of […]
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Bloodbath in Beason
Logan County state’s attorney Jonathan Wright was raging. With trial scheduled to start in just three weeks, defense attorney Daniel Fultz had tainted the jury pool by granting an interview to a television news reporter, Wright told the judge as the defense attorney buried his head in his hands, as though deep in thought or […]
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City proposal could spur action on civil union benefits
The City of Springfield is one step closer to an agreement on health benefits for civil union partners of city employees and retirees. A committee composed of representatives from the city and labor unions previously decided to allow civil union partners of city employees and retirees to get city health insurance, but a judge’s ruling […]
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Judge sides with Illinois Times on lawsuit
A Sangamon County judge has ordered a Springfield city government committee to hold open meetings following a lawsuit by an Illinois Times reporter. Bruce Rushton, a staff writer for Illinois Times, filed a lawsuit against the city’s Joint Labor Management Health Committee after a closed-door meeting on Jan. 10 in which the committee decided to […]
