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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 2006
Page
4
The Southern Illinoisan outlines letters to Voice of the Reader rules, sign requirement, verification phone, and editorial rights. It lists submission methods via mail, fax, and email and provides staff contacts for news tips, classifieds, and ads, plus delivery schedule notes and customer service numbers.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale welcomes students for a new academic year as SIUC resumes classes while area schools start and the university’s annexation into Carbondale shifts sales tax impacts. The dean and city finance director anticipate higher quarterly revenue as 20,000 students flood local businesses.
A reader laments hospitalization costs for a child with spina bifida and delayed Social Security benefits, noting utilities and housing at risk. The letter contrasts early 1940s wartime price controls with modern oil profits, urging a political houseclean to oust incumbents.
Resident critics accuse the governor of allocating large sums for a new ballfield while Illinois faces unpaid bills and widespread hardship. They name rising medical costs for seniors, medicine shortages for children, college costs, and stem cell funding amid veto battles, urging a reconsideration of leadership.
Readers defend and attack columnist views in The Southern Illinoisan letters section. The writer critiques leftist intolerance while urging tolerance for all commentators including Ann Coulter, Molly Ivins, Leonard Pitts Jr, and others across weekday and weekend columns.
Jim Muir recalls January 2003 when George Ryan pardoned four death row inmates and commuted 167 others, a move framed as compassionate by some and as political self interest by critics. The column contrasts the era’s hopes for Blagojevich with ongoing fallout from corruption, racketeering and the ongoing deposition over pardons. The piece notes Ryan’s legal jeopardy, prior administration convictions, and looming sentencing in Pallmeyer’s court.
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