Carbondale Eyes Scaled Energy Office With Yearlong Review
Carbondale plans to shrink its energy division by cutting the auditing program and boosting energy education. The Shawnee Solar Project’s center near SIU will move to city control, aiming to give the office its own identity and stronger promotion, with a one year evaluation.
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Carbondale
Don Monty
Shawnee Solar Project
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
City Hall
Neil Dillard
Linda Mason Builds Own Social Welfare Agency
Linda Mason of Lesser has created a private social welfare effort with help from Joyce Sims, Bill Crocker, and donors. She feeds the hungry clothes the poor arranges medicine for the sick and acts without formal charity affiliations or compensation.
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Sue Ellen Cox
Linda Mason
Lesser
Joyce Sims
Goode Township
Bill Crocker
Mason
Linda Mason’s
Feingberg Warns Death Penalty Overwhelms System
Kenneth Feinberg, former assistant U.S. attorney and Senate Judiciary special counsel, says the death penalty overwhelms the judiciary as lawyers seek every avenue to shield clients and no Supreme Court discourages shortcuts. He cites The New York Times on Florida’s death row burden and over 80 commutation hearings that threaten the governor’s duties.
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Kenneth Feinberg
U.S
Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington Post
U.S. Supreme Court
Feinerg
New York Times
Florida
State Supreme Court
Farm policy reform tests Congress in wake of farm price woes
Washington faces a reckoning over crop supports as four years of heavy federal outlays fail to shield farmers. High debts, rising deficits, and subsidized foreign competition have squeezed small farms, fueling calls for market-based price supports and a smaller federal role. Sen Jesse Helms navigates pressure to protect tobacco and peanut programs while backing broader reform.
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Washington
Congress
Republic
U.S
Reagan
White House
John Black
Block
Illinois
Charles Percy
Helms
Foreign Relations Committee
Agriculture Committee
Senate
America
Agriculture Movement
Oil tax debate could cut deficit and debt burden
The 99th Congress clashes with President Reagan over spending cuts while a combined gasoline tax and crude oil import fee could raise about 50 billion dollars annually. It would ease the deficit, pressure on interest rates, and help debtor nations, though hurting oil exporters like Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela. Proposals include stretching out $300 billion in short-term Third World loans into 25 to 30 years at lower rates, backed by Federal Reserve guarantees, to reduce annual interest costs and stabilize growth while banks resist.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Washington
99Th Congress
Reagan
OPEC
U.S
Mexico
Nigeria
Venezuela
Congress
Argentina
Raul Alfonsin
Latin America
Brazil
Felix Rohatyn
New York
Federal Reserve Board
Carter Deserves More Honor Than He Has Received
Jimmy Carter is portrayed as a decent, underappreciated former president who faced bad luck and political backlash. The piece criticizes how he’s been sidelined, praises his human rights work and handling of crises, and contrasts him with Reagan while noting his simple acts like helping the homeless. Socialist-era commentary frames Carter as unjustly overlooked in history.
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Carter
Jim Fain
Cox News Service
New York
Jimmy Carter
Jerry Ford
Kelly
Richard Nixon
Salvation Army
Nixon
Jacobo Timerman
Argentina
Ira
Plains
New York City
Letters critique of front page prayer poll raises credibility concerns
The Rev. James M. McEvers of Makanda blasts The Southern Illinoisan for front page coverage of an AP poll on school prayer. He questions the poll's scientific validity, argues prayer is personal, and urges better page fillers and oversight to avoid misleading readers. He contends families and culture must guide ethical training rather than schools.
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Southern Illinoisan
The
Pandora’s Box
James M. McEvers
Makanda
Seat belt debate argues for personal freedom in driving
A reader rejects mandatory seat belt laws arguing the belt harms some drivers and that regulations threaten democracy. He questions life-saving claims, cites an unbelted crash example, and supports choosing belt use without coercion, invoking Mr. McIntosh of Benton to label regulation as communist doctrine.
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Southern Illinoisan
McIntosh
Benton
Readers Letters Policy for The Southern Illinoisan
The Southern Illinoisan invites concise letters under 400 words or two double-spaced pages. Letters must be signed with the author’s name and include telephone and address. only name town and affiliation may be published. Up to five signatures printed. Objectionable content will not be published. Poems not accepted.
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Southern Illinoisan
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Eisenhower
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Federal Reserve
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