CO2 study group stalled

Group to report on carbon capture by Dec. 31 hasn’t met

A new type of med school, 40 years young

SIU%u2008School of Medicine’s first dean relects on the early years

Forty years ago, the success of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine was anything but certain. Six years of planning had brought the school to the point of leasing a building for its he

The dirty business of CLEAN COAL

Take a drive this time of year down any state highway and you’ll likely see chipboard signs promoting this guy for sheriff and that guy for Senate. This much is true when traveling down Route 48

Fishing factions

Fishermen upset by Asian carp emergency contracts

Housing starts

New homes brighten east side

Across the street from the house she was born in, longtime Springfield resident Jacqueline Carter Smith last week stood beside city and state officials in a vacant lot on the city’s east side. T

Watchdogs flee Springfield

Major news bureau considered closing Statehouse office

George Ryan, Rod Blagojevich, Pat Quinn and potentially Bill Brady. The Statehouse press corps has watched them all, but with each new governor fewer and fewer eyes make up the group of journalists in

Selling sustainability

New business network shares green ideas

Painting by the numbers

Union protests non-union hotel work crew

For about two weeks last month, a group of painters protested outside the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Springfield as a small crew worked to update the look of 316

A neighborhood’s call to arms

Enos Park works with planners on improvement strategy

Full of hope and energized by the progress they’ve made so far, Enos Park residents faced discouraging news last week as planners quantified the neighborhood’s current plight: The number o

Conservative think tank to Illinois: TURN RIGHT

The growing influence of the Illinois Policy Institute

When barbers employed by the state earn an average annual wage of nearly $66,000, compared to the average Illinois private sector barber’s $27,600, something is amiss, says the increasingly visi