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  From the Office of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin   [WASHINGTON, DC] United States Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the source of a recent salmonella outbreak was jalape...
Last week the State Journal Register solicited a “Guest OP-ED” piece from the mouth piece for the Illinois Petroleum Council that in simple form says we must overcome our current energy crisis by,  Conservation and fuel economy  (which he inst...
Springfield Resident Work Center. (Unresized, larger copy.)The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency in the United States. It operated from 1935 to 1943 as part of the Works Progress Administration. [...] By 1938, it served 327,000 hi...
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This has nothing to do with anything important but I love this passage anyway:History has established two fates for pop icons:. Kurt Cobain chose the first fate, while Britney Spears is embracing the second. Since Madonna never seemed like the found-dead-...
Bloggers are good at venting their frustrations and giving public floggings to those people or entities who we feel have done us wrong. In the spirit of fairness, it’s only right then that we also give air to those who distinguish themselves with ac...

Sorry, SJ-R, for stealing a potential headline. I know how you guys like your cheesy puns. I don’t really understand the hubbub about the deal with Michelle Wie being disqualified from the Rail Panther Creek Charity Golf Classic tournament this pas...
AOL has just informed me that their e-mail server is down. So I can’t reply to your messages this morning. The tech support guy said it might even be a “day or two” before it’s working again. Amazing. Anyway, I am now hobbled....
Posted by gotshoo? 2 days 1 minute ago.
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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 42 minutes ago.
* I’m not saying that this won’t happen, it’s just that we’ve heard this pledge so many times before I kinda doubt anything will come of it… State education officials launched an investigation Monday into dubious after-schoo...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 58 minutes ago.
* I told you yesterday that the governor had managed to shave a bunch of money off the debt he owes to Winston & Strawn… The debt to Winston & Strawn has dropped from $965,352.04 in the last filing period to $750K in this filing period. B...
Posted by Biker Ben 2 days 1 hour ago.

Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 days 1 hour ago.
Ive previously posted my own opinions on building a new Springfield High School somewhere other than its current location, but something in this SJ-R article has me puzzled.Tony Leone, representing the Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association, spoke of Spri...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 days 2 hours ago.
Dave is A spy, a homosexual, a member of the military or at the very least a false pastor.Rain outside the office. Thats the opinion of our local quarterhead anyway. It was brought to our attention this evening that the quarterhead for our quarter of B...
Posted by I Rant...I Rave 2 days 8 hours ago.
Posted by honey & quinine 2 days 9 hours ago.
Word came late from the care repair shop. To completely fix the car will cost more than the car is worth, but it may cost less than another car that’s better. As long as I drive it in the city, it should hold together another few months without los...
Posted by Jerome Prophet 2 days 10 hours ago.
BP Doesn't Deny Peak Oil Or Global WarmingYet wing nut conservatives still act like fossil fuels are the best thing since flag pins.I know, this lecture is in fact a real lecture. It's an hour and twenty five minutes long so pretend that you're back in c...
Posted by Jerome Prophet 2 days 10 hours ago.
Oil Company BP Doesn't Deny Global WarmingBritish Petroleum, or Beyond Petroleum if you wish, has gone beyond "global warming denial", and has begun to invest in renewable energy sources. While BP doesn't accept that peak oil conditions will hit any time...

Posted by I Rant...I Rave 2 days 10 hours ago.
Posted by Unpainted Huffhines 2 days 11 hours ago.
If you’re anything like me right now, you’ve got the TV and the hi-fi switched off until this window-rattling system moves through. At least my laptop won’t die with the power. Should you be in the same boat - or even if you read this to...
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