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• 05.05.10 - Poll: Southern Illinoisans 'cool' toward Chicago

  Source: SIUDE.com Registered voters in southern Illinois like people in their region — as long as they are not from Chicago. In a report released by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute as part of its Southern Illinois Poll, 78 percent of the people...

• 05.05.10 - Poll: Southern Illinoisans 'cool' toward Chicago

  The Southern CARBONDALE - Most Southern Illinois registered voters feel good about themselves as a group, though their feelings toward people from Chicago are on the cool side, according to the latest release of the Southern Illinois Poll from the Paul...

• 04.30.10 - Big babies + big chickens = minus $13 billion

  Eric Zorn - Chicago Tribune Illinois is running a $13 billion budget deficit. What to do? Raise taxes? Just under 10 percent of respondents to a recent poll commissioned by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University (...

• 04.22.10 - Simon Institute poll shows Illinois downstaters angry at state, feds

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Southern Illinois residents are extremely skeptical of the national health care reform push, they overwhelmingly think the state is headed in the wrong direction, and they favor Republican candidate for governor Bill Brady by a wid...

• 04.25.10 - Poll shows locals want it both ways

  By Codell Rodriguez, The Southern There were no questions on the latest Paul Simon Public Policy Institute poll about using gold at the end of a rainbow to fix the state budget, but it may be the only option not panned by Southern Illinoisans. According...

• 04.23.10 - Poll: Majority of Southern Illinoisans heavy newspaper readers

  Source: The Southern CARBONDALE - More than 60 percent of Southern Illinoisans asked are daily newspaper readers, according to poll results released this week by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Accordin...

• 04.23.10 - Where will the funding come from?

  By Codell Rodriguez / The Southern CARBONDALE - While students and faculty took to the streets in Springfield to demand more funding for higher education, a conference at Southern Illinois University Carbondale examined how funding dropped and how it cou...

• 04.23.10 - Experts brood over sorry higher education landscape

  Professor of economics at Skidmore College Sandy Baum, left, discussed the accessibility and affordability for college education in today’s economic state Thursday in the Student Center Ballroom B. Director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Da...

• 04.22.10 - Universities hurt themselves by raising tuition

  By Codell Rodriguez / The Southern A conference on college affordability is set to run from 8:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. today in the SIUC Student Center ballrooms. ‘Going Broke on Education: How can we Make College More Affordable?' is being sponsore...

• 04.22.10 - Poll: Southern Illiniosans unhappy with government

  By Rob Crow,  Source: The Southern CARBONDALE - For the first time, a poll has been conducted solely of Southern Illinois residents, showing how people in the region feel about many important issues. And the general consensus is they don't ...

• 04.22.10 - Poll shows southern Illinoisans unhappy with state’s direction

  Jeff Engelhardt | Source: Daily Egyptian David Yepsen has seen countless polls in his more than 35 years in politics, but he had never seen one like the results in a recent report from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. “I have never seen a nu...

• 04.21.10 - Our Opinion: Start talking to get remap reform moving

  Source: THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Posted Apr 21, 2010 @ 12:08 AM THE DEADLINE to get a constitutional amendment changing how Illinois redraws its state legislative districts on the November ballot is May 3. It’s time for reform groups, Republican...

• 04.18.10 - Voice of The Southern: New Simon paper: Time to make a decision

  Our View: A Thursday conference at SIUC will look at some ugly facts about Illinois' spending and its effects on higher education. We recommend you attend if you can. Work in education? Got a kid who might want to go to college someday? Pay taxes? If so...

• 04.18.10 - Simon Review focuses on education funding

  By Codell Rodriguez Well, at least it's not California. A new paper from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, "Higher Education Funding in Illinois: 1997-2010," examines the drop in state support for higher education and finds that Illinois is kne...

• 04.08.10 - Durbin visits SIUC for pizza and politics

  By Codell Rodriguez, The Southern The event was part of the Pizza and Politics series, in which the institute provides pizza and a politician to speak to students. Institute Director David Yepsen went over Durbin's past as someone who "came up the hard ...

• 03.07.10 - Senate Dems Introduce Redistricting Plan

  Competing proposals are now on the table to overhaul how Illinois draws boundaries for legislative districts. The push comes about a year before the next round of redistricting begins. To change the redistricting process, voters need to sign off on a cons...

• 03.29.10 - Economic conference set for April 8

  Carterville, Ill. - Given the current economic conditions, entrepreneurial opportunities could be the wave of the future. Steven Mitchell, ManTraCon technology and communications manager, invites those longing to go into business for themselves to the 15...

• 03.25.10 - A Turning Point For Tea Party ... And The GOP?

  Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected to descend on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's tiny hometown of Searchlight, Nev., on Saturday for an anti-Washington rally headlined by former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.Scores of Republic...

• 03.25.10 - SIUC honored for support of military personnel

  Murphysboro, Ill. - Southern Illinois University Carbondale is receiving recognition for its support of active-duty military personnel. Chancellor Samuel Goldman signed an institutional Statement of Support, signifying the University’s continuing suppor...

• 03.18.10 - Obama Skirts Illinois Visits So Far as Democrats Battle Scandal

  By John McCormick March 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama has campaigned for embattled Democrats this year in Massachusetts, Colorado and Nevada. There’s one trouble spot he’s so far stayed away from: his adopted home state of Illinois. Democ...