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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 2003
Page
1
The Southern Illinoisan highlights a lowered bond rating in Column One with additional notes on IRS seeking help from professional collection agencies in Business, plus SARS research in Nation. Weather forecasts cover 40 percent showers and 20 percent thunderstorm chances tonight and Thursday, with temperatures in the mid-70s to upper 70s.
Mayor Jack Woolard plans to appoint a new Rend Lake Conservancy District board member within days amid an audit controversy. Former U S representative Ken Gray, a longtime ally of ex manager Kevin Davis, faces possible nonreappointment as Woolard weighs the district’s turbulent finances and federal funding ties.
Saudi authorities tied a 19 member al Qaida cell to three simultaneous car bombings in Riyadh that killed at least 30 people including eight Americans and wounded 194. Nine attackers died. FBI sent agents to assist. Saudi interior minister said the group took orders from Osama bin Laden. 19 fled after a May 6 gunfight.
The Illinois Senate approved 800 million in loans to revive the dormant coal industry. funds would back new plants and upgrades to meet environmental standards with 500 million from general obligation bonds and 300 million from moral obligation bonds.
Southern Illinois residents share memories as The Varsity Theatre at 418 S. Illinois Ave. Carbondale prepares to close. Kerasotes Theatres will open an eight screen multiplex at University Mall on Thursday, ending the Varsity era that began in 1940. Readers are invited to weigh in.
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