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By Chuck Sweeny
RRSTAR.COM
Posted Aug 25, 2010 @ 01:32 AM
Last update Aug 25, 2010 @ 06:47 AM
If you’re looking for the two main candidates for governor around Rockford this summer, head to a factory. With the unemployment rate in Boone and Winn...
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Today could be the day a jury decides if our 40th governor is guilty of 24 felony corruption counts. Meanwhile, our 39th governor continues to pass time in a federal penitentiary because the last jury determined he was a crook. If convicted, Rod Blagoje...
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For the first time, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute conducted polls in the fall and the spring.
In doing so, researchers were able to compare the statewide poll in the fall with the regional poll in the spring, allowing them to see the differenc...
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CARBONDALE - Patti Derge Simon, wife of the late Paul Simon, said goodbye to one family Thursday to be with another.
Simon will leave for the Washington area to be near her daughter. But before she left, friends gathered at the Paul Simon Public Policy I...
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CARBONDALE — A head-on collision in Washington County Sunday injured the family of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute’s associate director.
The accident occurred along Illinois 127 at 12:45 p.m.
Gildardo Marcos Perfecto, 22, of St. Libory in St....
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By Pete Rosenbery
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06/11/2010 14:02:43
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will host a farewell reception for Patricia Derge Simon later this month.
The reception is from 4 to 7 p.m....
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By MONICA DAVEY
DES MOINES — When Iowa became the first Midwestern state to legalize same-sex marriage a year ago, opponents said the issue would drive future political races, and some even pledged to work to remove the State Supreme Court justices beh...
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By Codell Rodriguez / The Southern
CARBONDALE - Representatives of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago visited SIUC to discuss relationships among Taiwan, China and the United States.
The representatives are taking part in several even...
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A new paper from the Simon Review looks at reforms proposed by the Illinois Reform Commission and whether or not the ideas would work.
The review is titled "Institutional Reform and State Government Corruption: An Analysis of Institutional Reforms Propos...
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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...
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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...
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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 (...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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