Month: April 2011

Governor Quinn Announces Capital Funding For Expansion of Southwestern Illinois College

BELLEVILLE–(ENEWSFP)–March 31, 2011. Governor Pat Quinn today visited Southwestern Illinois College (SWIC) to announce a $19.1 million investment that will help improve energy efficiency at the school’s Belleville campus. The Illinois Jobs Now! capital investment will fund construction of an environmentally-friendly, 72,000 square-foot expansion of the Liberal Arts Building. The[Read More…]

Senator Durbin Asks Commerce Secretary to Help Resolve Itasca Company’s Dispute

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2011.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met with the CEO of Illinois-based Fellowes, Inc., Jamie Fellowes, to discuss the company’s effort to recover hundreds of millions of dollars worth of capital assets and intellectual property that were stolen by the company’s onetime Chinese business partner. Late[Read More…]

To The Editor: Not So Fast On ‘Great Recession’ Op-Ed

To The Editor: With regard to your 3/30/11 commentary, “Did Mayor John A. Ostenburg Cause The Great Recession?”, the Village government’s share of property taxes for tax year 1999 for SD 163 (Rich Township) in 1999 was 21.5% and 30.6% in 2009. Conversely, the school’s share decreased from 67.3% to[Read More…]

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