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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 2007
Page
4
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Energy swept across Southern Illinois this week and will continue as thousands of students return to class. Parents with supply lists crowded area retailers while several schools opened as early as Monday marking the start of the 2006-07 academic year this week.
The article urges careful driving as students return to SIUC Carbondale and area community colleges. It highlights school traffic, crossings, bus stops, after school activities, and a rise in rental vans. Emphasizes patience, safety, and neighborly conduct to protect children and support the region’s economy.
Rick Hicks of Mount Vernon argues democracy weakened by Reagan era actions including PATCO's break, Boland Amendment defiance, and propping up Contras. He criticizes deregulation, banking fees, and rising poverty, calls for tearing down systems and restoring the Constitution amid Franklin County politics.
The Franklin County Board faces scrutiny as Randall Crocker and Keith Ward allegedly schemed to oust Jim Rippy and Dick Hart. Ward’s reappointment and election as president prompts calls for resignation per Illinois Auditor General Bill Holland, who labeled the 2004 audit the worst and blamed the seven-member board for widespread management weaknesses.
A speaker condemns U S actions in Iraq, arguing the invasion damaged global sympathy, fueled Muslim anger, and framed the United States as a Christian crusader. The piece calls for national acknowledgment of mistakes, healing, and an end to occupation to reduce radical rhetoric.
A personal reflection notes steep milk price increases in the USA. The writer, aged years old, laments a 60 cent jump in a single day and predicts further rises toward four or five dollars per gallon. The piece ends with a signoff from George Culley in Pinckneyville.
In response to the I-35W collapse and aging public works, Senators Chris Dodd and Chuck Hagel advocate a National Infrastructure Bank. They argue many bridges are structurally deficient, calling for public-private funding to modernize roads, sewers, and housing while leveraging private capital to reduce taxpayer costs.
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