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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 2002
Page
1
A record crowd of about 40,000 gathered at Punxsutawney Phil's hole as the groundhog forecast six more weeks of winter. Meteorologists expect February and March to stay cooler than usual across the region.
Nicole, a Mount Vernon resident, recounts an assault two years ago while at Southern Illinois University. She describes attending a party with friends, meeting an economics major, and going to his house where the incident occurred amid a crowd of peers.
Mary Kay Moore and Tom Corpora, parents of Jillian, Nic and Simone, fund education initiatives in Carbondale. Their support underpins the new CCHS building project nearing completion, a 236000 square foot campus costing 28.5 million dollars with 76 classrooms, a 369-seat auditorium, three gyms, and a new football stadium.
Betsy Dunham plans a large Carbondale gathering with about 70 guests for the Super Bowl. Darrell handles cooking and has even consulted a Ritz-Carlton chef in St Louis to perfect a lasagna. Tables set across Southern Illinois as Rams face Patriots in sports coverage.
The Chicago Tribune reports that over three years Illinois legislators allocated more than 1.5 billion dollars in earmarked grants without public scrutiny, with funds flowing to ethnic museums and health care facilities and often accompanied by campaign contributions to the lawmakers who designated them.
Bush’s forthcoming budget plans 591 billion dollars in tax cuts over ten years while aiming to rebalance deficits into surpluses. The package relies on Medicaid savings and a low income health program, plus proposes leasing Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling rights to raise funds, despite Congress blocking a similar move last year.
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