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• 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...

• 04.21.10 - Paul Simon Public Policy Institute inaugurates the “Southern Illinois Poll.”

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARBONDALE, ILL. – Wednesday, April 21, 2010                                                                                 Paul Simon Public Polic...

• 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...

• 03.15.10 - A more honest way to remap Illinois

  Illinois stands close to transforming its reviled and ridiculed scheme for drawing state legislative districts into a model for the nation. But it will take leaps of statesmanship prodded by heaps of citizen engagement to get there.Influe...

• 03.08.10 - Extremely distracting political charge makes sense for Quinn

  Extremely distracting political charge makes sense for Quinn Nearly a month ago, when the Democrats were holding their rhetorical fire as they waited to see which Republican gubernatorial candidate would win after all the primary votes were counte...

• 03.03.10 - SIUC journalist to bring experience, Twitter to Africa

  The SIUC School of Journalism will send a professor halfway across the globe to help bridge the gap between African and American journalism. Professor David Yepsen will go to the African cities of Kampala, Uganda, and Lusaka, Zambia, as a member of the U....

• 02.26.10 - Yepsen to teach in Africa

  By Stephen Rickerl  CARBONDALE- Director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute and longtime journalist David Yepsen announced Thursday he will travel to Africa to share his knowledge and experience in election reporting. Yepsen wil...

• 02.24.10 - Politicians can't sugarcoat Illinois' dire straits

  BY CAROL MARIN Sun-Times Columnist ...

• 02.23.10 - SIU works toward establishing Cuban Caribbean Center

  By Stephen Rickerl CARBONDALE - The relationship between the United States and Cuba is a web of foreign policy issues, restrictive legislation and potentially profitable markets. Yet some experts feel it is a ...

• 02.23.10 - Cuban expert speaks at SIUC

  By Stephen Rickerl CARBONDALE - The relationship between the United States and Cuba is perhaps the most visible Cold War barrier remaining today, Southern Illinois University officials say, and they want the opportunity to play a part in removing th...

• 02.17.10 - Citizens say cut, but from where? Simon Institute poll looks at big questions

  By Mark Fitton  CARBONDALE - A newly released compilation of The Simon Institute's fall 2009 polling tends to reinforce what was already suspected: The public believes cutting government waste and overspending can move Illinois off its est...

• 02.17.10 - Gray reflects on political career at book signing

  By Stephen Rickerl  CARBONDALE - Former U.S Rep. Kenneth J. Gray visited the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute on Tuesday to share stories of his career as a congressman and to sign copies of the book, "Pass the Pla...

• 02.11.10 - Simon: ‘Yes’ to lieutenant governor, if asked

  Though she said it would be highly unlikely, SIUC law professor Sheila Simon said she would “say yes quickly” if the State Central Committee of the Democratic Party asked her to run for Illinois lieutenant governor. Rumors of Simon’s potential cand...