Peak pricing eyed as ICC faces protests over high electric bills
ICC member Charles Staton says peak pricing could curb rate growth and help residential users amid 8 percent inflation. He notes public acceptability, legislative action, and energy stamps as alternatives while defending ICC’s past higher summer-winter differentials for CIPS despite protests in Marion and West Frankfort. SCAM backs rate reform but splits with Staton on policy details.
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Frank Suhadolnik
Illinois Commerce Commission
ICC
Charles Staton
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Chicago
Stalin
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Marion
West Frankfort
Statin
SIUC
CIPS
Southern Counties Action Movement
SCAM
Janet Smith
Stalon
Ms. Smith
Unemployment Dips Below Six Percent At August Rates
The Labor Department reports August unemployment at 5.9 percent, with total employment rising by 160000 to 94.6 million. Adults, women and teenagers saw gains while manufacturing declined, and the unemployment rate remains among the year’s lowest despite broader economic softness.
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Washington
Labor Department
Carter
Labor Day Weekend Weather With Ella Looms
The Southern Illinoisan reports cloudy skies and a 30 percent chance of rain for the Labor Day weekend from Jim Sward at Southern Illinois Airport. Temperatures will range from the low 60s at night to the upper 80s by day. Hurricane Ella is approaching North Carolina, potentially spoiling weekend plans. State police announce Operation CARE to boost safety with more patrols on I-57 and radar monitoring. Nationwide, the National Safety Council estimates 470 to 570 holiday deaths. Weather notes also mention apple harvest in Southern Illinois and other briefs on Nicaragua and the Hambletonian.
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Jean Ness
Illnoia
Jim Sward
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Sward
Ella
North Carolina
Carolinas
du Quoin
Mel Kersten
Kersten
National Safety Council
Missing worker testifies at tax lid hearing
Donna L. Caton from Springfield testified before the state Board of Elections about notarizing hundreds of Thompson Proposition tax-lid petitions. She was subpoenaed, took vacation, and reappeared after directors sought her presence. A second secretary, Vicki L. Sands, has been missing since Wednesday and was seen leaving an associate's home before dawn.
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James Thompson
John W. Countryman
Associated Press
Springfield
Elderly couple unknowingly take car with dynamite
Police pursued two elderly individuals after they drove off from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport with two sticks of defused dynamite attached to their late model maroon Chevrolet. The device, about two pounds of raw gunpowder, had no detonator or primer and was deemed highly unlikely to explode. An airport official cited a training exercise and a parking lot attendant's failure to relay owner calls as factors in the incident.
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Ers
Lambert
Missouri
Griggs
Diane Hubner enjoys a relaxed campus scene at SIU Carbondale
Diane Hubner of SIU Carbondale Campus Lake sports a relaxed mood as law students begin a new month. She notes this first-week mood and the setting feels calm and beautiful on the southern campus.
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Diane Hubner
Chi
Southern Is
University-Carbondale School of Law
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