Newsroom employees at the State Journal-Register are being offered buyouts, with the prospect of layoffs on the horizon. The buyout offer from GateHouse Media, the paper’s corporate owne

 The night before Thanksgiving, I accompanied my neighbor Connie to a meeting of the Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission.The city had gone ga-ga over her backyard fence, which was built ye

The City of Springfield is promoting a plan to bring a 95-room hotel to Washington Street. “It is exciting,” said Mayor Jim Langfelder. “They actually had to scale back the project. They

 If you think campaign yard signs are litter on a stick, ask Ben Griffin.Eight years ago, Griffin zoomed from political unknown to a player in contests for seats on the Nashville Metro Council in

How much is the Y block worth? Nothing, apparently. The downtown Springfield property next to the governor’s mansion for which the city paid $1.5 million in 2014 appeared on the city’s list

 As elective offices go, the Springfield city clerk’s post isn’t the sexiest.It’s an administrative position, tasked with keeping minutes of city council sessions and otherwise collecting,

Stretching from MacArthur Boulevard to areas near Koke Mill Road, Ward 8 straddles a mix of Springfield neighborhoods.Two candidates for Ward 8 alderman, Erin Conley and Dean Graven, live west of Vete

 Ward 3 Ald. Doris Turner squawked when Nadine Wright, a write-in candidate for her city council seat, spoke for two minutes at Tuesday’s council meeting.Wright complained about litter, crime a