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FutureGen a crucial step toward sustainable energy

Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy announced plans to appropriate one billion for FutureGen, a Mattoon-based clean energy project put on hold by the Bush administration.

   7/1/2009 - 12:00 AM    Post your comment
Ill. officials must take action to pass state budget

Earlier this month, we gave our support to an Illinois income tax increase to restore crucial funding to social services.

   6/30/2009 - 12:00 AM    2 comments

From Different Perspectives

Scott Green
Your Sex Column Answer Man will work for Fritos

The recession has affected everything in this country, from tax policy to car purchases to the market of people willing to pay straight-out-of-college journalists six figures to write humor columns.

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6/30/2009 - 9:40 PM    Post your comment
Chelsea Fiddyment
Let the farmer’s market convince you to eat your vegetables

Farmers’ markets boast a wealth of interesting sights and sounds for anyone willing to crawl out of bed by eight in the morning: one-man bands (a surprising number of which tend to include banjos), artfully-shaped bonsais, and lines a mile long waiting not for concert tickets or driver’s license renewal, but for fresh strawberries.

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6/28/2009 - 10:49 PM    Post your comment
Amy Allen
Americans should focus on politics rather than personal lives, relationships

Mark Sanford and John Ensign have become the latest politicians to come undone.

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6/29/2009 - 9:32 PM    Post your comment
Jordan Harp
Supporters of Ill. tax increase are 'Chicken Littles'

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Listening to the proponents of an income tax hike in Illinois over the past few weeks, you would think that was true.

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6/26/2009 - 10:29 AM    Post your comment

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