http://spfldbloggers.com/ A news aggregator for local Springfield Illinois blogs. en-us http://spfldbloggers.com/feed.php I was recently sent a specimen from the cerebellum of a 27-year-old female patient who, during a routine funduscopic exam at her optometrist, was found to have papilledema and retinal hemorrhages. She was completely asymptomatic -- which of course suggest... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36435/rss 2010-03-11 21:23:01 I exported an HD version of the Snow Geese video. You can check it out here: http://www.daveheinzel.com/SnowGeeseHD.mov http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36433/rss 2010-03-11 20:18:44 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }I kept seeing the sky full of dancing clouds today. More than once, I wanted to gr... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36434/rss 2010-03-11 20:17:57 http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36432/rss 2010-03-11 18:57:30 Hail YES, this is Part Six. I just spelled the number differently in the title. You should have pronounced it the same. The first “x”  escaping (excaping if you’re the son of G. Herbert Walker B.) from your mind’s mouth should bee... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36431/rss 2010-03-11 18:17:56 By Jamey DunnGov. Pat Quinn is using his bully pulpit to try to get support for a tax increase that he says is needed to avoid deep cuts to education funding.Quinn addressed students and teachers at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Springfield. He also v... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36430/rss 2010-03-11 17:58:06 By Rachel WellsGreen Party candidate Rich Whitney today said that if elected governor, he would fix the state’s $13 billion budget problem by creating a new tax – a sort of sin tax on the profits of speculative trading – and by pushing a tax increas... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36429/rss 2010-03-11 17:47:16 Earlier this week, Google expanded its cloud computing empire through the acquisition of popular photo-editing site Picnik. Moments after the news was announced on both the Google Photo blog and Picnik’s blog, users of both applications were asking one ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36428/rss 2010-03-11 17:20:00 Google Wave is particularly useful for organising events, preparing meeting agendas, brainstorming sessions and many other activities used in website marketing. Google is all set to roll-out its Google Wave collaboration tool to website promotion business... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36427/rss 2010-03-11 17:15:00 Since many blogs and news organizations don't like linking to unidentified authors, I decided it's time to write a reference post about who I am. Besides that, my focus has changed a bit since I started this as a campaign blog so it's time for a new stat... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36426/rss 2010-03-11 15:20:59 * Illinois Democrats haven’t gotten a break in a long while, but one might be coming from an unlikely source… Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has repeatedly said he’s looking forward to clearing his name at his trial. But now he wants that ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36425/rss 2010-03-11 14:17:55 * The February primary experiment was a failure. I think a lot of folks would like a total do-over. We can’t do that, but the primary date can be moved back where it was… Illinois’ primary election would be pushed back to March under l... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36424/rss 2010-03-11 13:39:22 * Green Party gubernatorial nominee Rich Whitney outlined his budget and economic plan today at a Statehouse press conference. Among other things, he wants a forensic audit of state government…Convene an independent commission of citizens, drawn f... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36423/rss 2010-03-11 12:55:53 Boy Scout Troop 215 member Mike Johnson is arranging to have decorative benches placed at the Chatham Veterans Memorial on the village square. Johnson had approached the board earlier this year asking for ideas for an Eagle Scout project that would benefi... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36422/rss 2010-03-11 11:29:57 There is so much about this guy and his projects. The good news is that they are finally winning the building code battles. Oh and of course they ran up against the utility companies too. They hate houses that do not use power. So these are not houses for... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36421/rss 2010-03-11 10:08:22 my aunt sandy sends me many, many different forwarded things.  sometimes they are DIRE WARNING, sometimes they are pictures of different things, mostly cute animals.  I LOVE THE CUTE ANIMAL PHOTOS, but none of them, NONE OF THEM, has been as cute as the... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36420/rss 2010-03-11 09:53:02 * To say this is a big boost would just be too obvious, so I’ll just skip that and go right to the story… Mayor Daley today endorsed the runner-up in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor — State Rep. Art Turner (D-Chicago) — in t... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36419/rss 2010-03-11 09:31:00 we did have plenty of sunshine and WARM TEMPERATURES here yesterday, but things are still pretty darn brown. this is kevin on our first day of vacation, enjoying the local cigar he bought at the cigar shop in key largo.the next morning we started heading ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36418/rss 2010-03-11 09:06:21 * Quote of the day goes to Sen. Bill Brady, who complained about Gov. Pat Quinn’s budget yesterday… “It seems to me that what he’s simply doing here is ignoring the problem, kicking the can down the road, trying to make it past the electio... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36417/rss 2010-03-11 08:53:23 * The headline on Kristen McQueary’s column pretty much sums it up… Budget plan is clever, but D.O.A. Tactically, this would normally be a decent move. Raise taxes for schools. That’s how income taxes were raised here in 1987, all the ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36416/rss 2010-03-11 08:26:28