Illinois targets gas station tax dodgers in $54 million haul
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Department of Revenue pursue gas station operators who short the state on sales tax. About 651 people have paid back roughly $54 million after 14 indictments in a year and a half. Prosecutors vow continued enforcement to ensure fair competition and proper tax collection.
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Lisa Madigan
Illinois Department of Revenue
Illinois
Chester
Murphysboro
Brian Hamer
Attorney General's Office
Madigan
Special Prosecutions Bureau
Revenue Department
Bureau of Criminal Investigations
Hamer
Department of Revenue
Voice of the Reader rebuts SIU faculty workload claim
A reader defends SIU professors against the charge they teach only three courses a semester. He argues faculty duties are broad and open ended, including mentoring, meetings, research, scholarship, conferences, grading, and service to department, university, and community.
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Gary Metro
SIU
Illinois
Metro
Readers vote for September Golden Pen Award winners
The Southern Illinoisan invites readers to vote for the best letter of the month printed in September, with finalists Carla Feldhamer Alfred E. Sonny Sanders and Bill Littrell. Online voting at thesouthern.com or by mail through Oct. 10. Winning author receives inscribed pen and editor column recognition.
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Southern Illinoisan
Thesouthern.com
Carla Feldhamer
Carbondale
Alfred E
Sonny” Sanders
Marion
Bill Littrell
Jonesboro
U.S. Congress
Thesouthern
Gary Metro
The
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Letters to the Editor Policy
The Southern Illinois newspaper outlines letters policy requiring signed submissions with a phone number for verification and forbidding publication of numbers. It states letters address current topics, are edited, not news reports, and excludes lis t of contact details for offices in Carbondale Murphysboro De Soto Williamson County and other lines.
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Carbondale
Murphysboro
de Soto
Williamson County
Local Congressional Contacts Listed for Illinois lawmakers
U S Sen Mark Kirk Durbin and Rep Shimkus are listed with phone numbers and websites. Addresses include district and Washington offices. The snippet provides contact lines for Kirk Durbin and Shimkus with web links and office lines.
Take Responsibility for Your News Diet This Week
A call urging readers to own their choices in consuming news. It stresses that individuals must judge truth from bias and misinformation, notes National Newspaper Week October 2-8, and highlights the Illinois Press Association's role through its director David Porter.
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Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
David Porter
The
Illinois Press Association
Illinois
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Yahoo.com
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