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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 2004
Page
1
More than 200 items from local merchants including a 2002 Saturn SL valued at 7995. Guitars from Midwest Music and rental packages from Ten Pin Alley featured. Auction runs today through Tuesday with full details at the southern auction block site. Inside Nation notes a water taxi capsizing with four believed dead.
A Illinois delegation from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will travel to Washington to urge the U S Department of Energy to select Southern Illinois as the FutureGen site. Gov Blagojevich aides note the project aims to build a 275 megawatt clean coal plant with emissions parity to natural gas, a concept SIU Carbondale has studied for years. SEE FUTUREGEN / PAGE 2A
President Bush outlines FutureGen as a 275 MW low emission power plant using clean coal tech. Southern Illinois is considered for location. Project costs about $950 million with funding expected through 2018, the year the plant would finish.
Lt. Col. John Moulton addressed the 825th Replacement Company at the Marion Reserve Center after a year of active duty at Fort Benning Georgia. He framed the year as a battle between good and evil and praised the troops for stepping onto the right bank of life’s river. The 20 soldiers had prepared about 4000 troops for overseas deployment via Fort Benning. Major Roberta Waggoner stated the unit ensured trainees were ready for their theater of operations.
SIU fans pack Savvis Center as the No. 15 Salukis roll past Evansville 93 67 in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinals in St. Louis. SIU advances to face Southwest Missouri State at 2 30 p.m. in the semifinals.
Springfield AP reports more than 1 million dollars will go to nine men wrongfully convicted and pardoned by former Governor George Ryan. Gov Blagojevich signed the law authorizing over 280 million in supplemental spending seen by Republicans as pork during Illinois budget crisis. Ryan pardoned four men before leaving office in January 2003 after clearing death row.
In Gonaives Haiti rebel fighters say they will not disarm until supporters of exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide lay down weapons as well. Local commander Winter Etienne notes guns are kept hidden and will be kept for possible future use. The ritual Ogun Feray ceremony signals ongoing violence as the Feb. 5 uprising has killed over 130 and driven Aristide from Port au Prince.
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