Murphysboro seeks federal definitions for group home clash
Murphysboro seeks federal definitions to resolve a dispute over placing a group home for the mentally handicapped on 15th Street. Mayor Michael Bowers seeks guidance on training and treatment terms and aims for a judge to define them, amid protests and a contested contract matter with the Egyptian Association.
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Murphysboro
Brad Betker
Southern Illinois and
Michael Bowers
Planning and Zoning Commission
15Th Street
Bowers
Federal
Departments of Health, Education and Welfare
Housing and Urban Development
Egyptian Association For the Mentally Handicapped
S. 15Th St
Jackson Community Workshop
HEW
United States
Peyton Kunce
Kunce
Ralph Johnson
Toledo
Ohio
Kance
Johnsons
Floyd Hart
Hart
James Lawder
Johnson
Lawder
Marion Jackson County 708 director quits after board dispute
In Jackson County, Perry Patterson resigns as director of the 708 board effective July 31 after a year of clashes over goals and funding. The board, which funds mental health services, criticized Patterson for performance while Patterson blamed unclear expectations and board politics.
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Marion
Jackson County
Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinois
708
Perry Patterson
Patterson
Jackson County 708
Gary Hartlieb
Hartlieb
Jackson Community Workshop
Cherryl Daugherty
Workshop
Burgeoning budgets story of Illinois state finances
Illinois lawmakers face a $11 billion budget with education highway and corporate personal property tax issues driving the 81st General Assembly. Sen Ken Buzbee notes the budget ranks among the world’s largest. Lawmakers debate highway funding, a new school formula, coal regulations, and tax relief as they push for bills this session.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois
Ken Buzbee
D-Carbondale
Appropriations
Senate
Buzbee
81St General Assembly
Bruce Richmond
Murphysboro
James Thompson
Gene Johns
Marion
Vincent Birchler
Chester
Ralph Dunn
R-Du Quoin
Bob Winchester
Rossclare
Chicago
Wides Oil Co to close after 50 years in Southern Illinois
Wides Oil Co, based in Murphysboro, will cease deliveries at month end after 50 years in business. The company will keep a Mount Vernon station and its license, serving about 140 customers, with bulk operations ending due to rising fuel costs and uncompetitive pricing. The bulk plant will be taken over by Hines Oil Co, while Carbondale remains a major customer. The closure marks the second Southern Illinois distributorship to shut this year amid gasoline supply pressures.
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Kunce
Hart
Lawder
Cherryl Daugherty
15Th Street
Illinois Department of Mental Health
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Harry Brawdy
19Th
Walnut
Gartside
Illinois Department of Transportation
19Th Street
Bowers
Sydney Appleton
Appleton
Tom Woolf
Southern Iinoisan
Southern Illinois
Wides Oil Co
Louis Wides
Mount Vernon
Wides
Wides Added
Hines Oil Co
du Quoin
Bill Moss
Moss
Illinois
Stroud and Sherertz Oil Co
Thompson's
Marion
Long Knife by James Alexander Thom review
Ben Gelman critiques James Alexander Thom’s Long Knife a novel about George Rogers Clark. The author aims to breathe life into Clark and associates while recounting his Kaskaskia and Vincennes exploits and the Northwest frontier era. The review finds the characters largely two dimensional though the book remains readable as Americana.
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Ben Gelman
Republic
James Alexander Thom
George Rogers Clark
Northwest
Clark
Kaskaskia
Vincennes
Wabash
Indiana
Joseph Bowman
Leonard Helm
Henry Hamilton
Francisco Vigo
Fernando de Leyba
Upper
Louisiana
St. Louis
Terese
James Alton James
Illinois
Virginia
Spain
Thom
Northwest Territory
Helm
the de Leybas
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Shirley E. Johnson
Federal Penitentiary At
John L. Clark
Ron Beai
Beai
John Ferrell
John
Stuart and
la Ferrell
Carterville
Parvoor
Evergreen
Joe Jines
Bill Harris
D-Marion
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Jim Rea
D-Christopher
Phillips Oil Co
Avon
State of
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