Former Cards coach Rich Hacker a Carbondale alum
Rich Hacker, a former St. Louis Cardinals base coach and a Carbondale alumnus, has three World Series appearances with the 1987 Cardinals under Whitey Herzog and the 1992 1993 Blue Jays. He stresses that baseball is a demanding, all in job focused on coaching duties.
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Illinois Delays Raise Interest Costs for Vendors
The article notes that delaying bill payments triggers statutory interest penalties under the Prompt Payment Act, costing Illinois nearly 27.1 million dollars last year. In 2010 amid budget woes, interest payments exceeded the SEE TAXPAYERS portion, highlighting ongoing cash-flow strain and penalties paid to vendors.
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State owes universities millions while small businesses await pennies
The state of Illinois owes millions to universities districts and other entities yet many small businesses face unpaid bills of ten dollars or less. State records highlight delayed payments while Shelley Mays reads at a Marion child development center where the firm is owed about eighteen thousand dollars by the state.
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Southern Illinois Deadbeat: Weeklong Series Review
The Southern highlights a weeklong series exploring debt and accountability in Illinois, featuring investigative stories, videos, and a searchable database on the site. Readers can explore testimonies, data, and expert insights across multiple pieces detailing local cases and civic response.
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Playoff field set for14 teams with fourteen eligible
In local football playoff news twelve teams earned postseason spots while two were left out. The list of qualifiers includes Anna Jonesboro Harrisburg Benton Herrin Carbondale Johnston City Carmi-White Co Pinckneyville Centralia Marion Eldorado S V W W. Carterville and Du Quoin missed the cut.
English farmers' goals: Waste little, please the customer
British farming in Suffolk centers on efficiency and customer needs. The image shows Bury St Edmunds with a historic cathedral and a sugarbeet factory turning beets into 15,000 tons of sugar daily. Agriculture drives 50,000 local jobs directly and 167,000 indirectly. Three quarters of land in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire is farmed, yielding a third of England's wheat and potatoes, 2.2 million eggs daily, and 1.1 million pigs. The Stennett family owns half the nation’s sugarbeet crop.
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