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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 2002
Page
4
The Southern Illinoisan invites reader input via Voice of the Reader and The Vent with letters up to 250 words. Include name hometown and telephone for verification. editorial discretion applies. Submissions may be edited and poetry or mass-letter submissions are not published.
U S senator Durbin, an East St. Louis native, sits on key appropriations panels and backs transportation funding for Illinois 127 expansion and a Mississippi River bridge. He faces Jim Durkin as Republican challenger while Jerry Costello seeks re election backing energy, infrastructure, and regional projects including the Delta Regional Authority and SIUC research park. David Sadler runs against Costello in the Republican bid.
The Southern Illinois community backs various candidates for state senate and house, highlighting endorsements for incumbent and challenger figures. Key figures include Sen. David Luechtefeld and Rep. Larry Woolard, with assertions on jobs, coal plants, Vienna Prison, tax policy, and economic development.
In letters from West Frankfort J Toms argues free trade deindustrializes the U S and costs 1 600 Maytag workers in Galesburg while production moves to Mexico He urges bringing factories home to aid unemployed workers and benefit the country Dennis Mcpheron Jonnston City questions racial bias in a judge s remarks and calls for accountability Nicholas Rion Lick cReEK raises political humor about presidents and Bush in context of Iraq over future memory
Readers in Carbondale and Omaha express mixed opinions on the Bush administration. A sizable portion call the president hypocritical for urging invasion of Iraq while advocating diplomacy with North Korea.
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