Embrace change or be left behind at the SIU banquet
Gary Metro reflects at the 43rd Southern Illinois Society for High School Achievement banquet in SIU Student Center. The keynote was Megan Ervin of Rushville. He urges students to welcome rapid change and digital future, sharing decades of newsroom evolution and personal observations.
Letters to Editor Policy Addresses Submissions
The policy states letters are limited to 250 words and must be signed and submitted by email or typed. It requires the writer to include a telephone number for contact and provides newsroom contact numbers for Carbondale Murphysboro De Soto Williamson County and other areas.
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Murphysboro
de Soto
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Officials contact details and offices list
Government offices for Illinois are listed with phone numbers and addresses. Includes Gov. Pat Quinn, U S senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, and U S Representative John Shimkus with Springfield and Chicago offices and district contact lines.
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Pat Quinningfield
State House
Springfield
Chicago
James R. Thompson
W. Randolph
Hawking boycotts Israel trip amid pro-Palestinian unrest
Mona Charen criticizes Stephen Hawking for canceling a conference in Israel citing Palestinian boycott emails. She argues selective BDS targets Israel while ignoring rights abuses elsewhere, contrasts Hawking with other figures who visit controversial nations, and decries what she calls moral double standards in abroad travel and sanction debates.
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Elvis Costello
Santana
Jon Bon Jovi
the Pixies
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
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South Africa
Knesset
Supreme Court
Foreign Service
Palestinian Authority
Mona Charen
Creators Syndicate
Creators.com
Voice of the Reader advocates lower retirement fees
A reader from John A. Logan College criticizes high management and administrative fees in tax deferred annuities and mutual funds. He cites a PBS Frontline segment, urges converting variable annuities to self directed IRAs, and favors ETFs index funds and online bonds as lower cost options for near retirement investors.
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John A. Logan College
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