Tax amnesty aids economy as healing continues
Column One Inside State reports tax amnesty steps show the economy slowly healing. The brief notes how relief measures lift confidence and stimulate activity while the state seeks revenue stability.
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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 2004
Page
1
Column One Inside State reports tax amnesty steps show the economy slowly healing. The brief notes how relief measures lift confidence and stimulate activity while the state seeks revenue stability.
Williamson County Coroner Mike Burke said autopsy results are awaited for 86 year old Inez Catherine Washburn who died February 3 at her Carterville home. Her body was exhumed March 18 after police recovered her purse, with a pathologist from Evansville conducting the autopsy before her reinterment the same day. Burke said investigators are checking for possible foul play.
Herrin neighbors in the Kane subdivision accuse Gary Brown of using his 108 Kane Drive home as a church. Brown denies hosting services, while residents cite subdivision covenants forbidding religious use and report cars blocking driveways on a narrow road. Brown says he hosts fellowship but no services.
Southern Illinois injury lawyer Courtney Hughes says insurance premiums drive physician departures with two neurosurgeons among those leaving. He doubts the link to high settlements and notes ISMIE raised doctors premiums despite profits, while he handles about a dozen claims yearly and rejects many more.
Illinois State Board of Education released a list showing 156 of 893 districts on its financial watch list, up from 87 in 2003. ISBE chair Janet Steiner warned the rising numbers signal concern, while noting the data reflect fiscal 2003 and exclude recent budget funding increases.
The Illinois State Board of Education criticized Gov. Rod Blagojevichs 400 million education spending proposal as inadequate for students. They debated fiscal 2005 lump sum funding and offered nonbinding guidelines on local school share and special education money.
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