by Our Readers | Jun 30, 2011 | News
For Whom the Tolls Rise Toll roads must produce revenue to defray costs of borrowed money they use for road work, regular maintenance, costs of toll collections, and the 10 percent or more profits to the (foreign-based) shareholders (see “Phantom...
by Tom Vannah | Jun 30, 2011 | News
Rudi R. Scherff, the proprietor of the the Student Prince Cafe and The Fort Restaurant in Springfield, says he always wondered what a tornado would be like. Now that he knows, he says, he hopes it’s his only such experience. “Once was enough,”...
by Ted Rall | Jul 6, 2011 | News
Borders Books and Music, which once employed 30,000 workers at more than 600 stores, is bankrupt. Those numbers have been halved. And even after these massive cuts, analysts say, Borders is probably doomed. The next time you walk past the empty ghost store where your...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 7, 2011 | News
During the past 600 million years, scientists say, there have been five “global extinction events” in the ocean. Now we’re headed for another one unless we shrink our carbon footprint and quit overfishing now, not later, according to a group of...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 7, 2011 | News
Last week, City Hall signaled that Springfield was moving into a post-tornado “rebuilding phase.” Almost four weeks to the day after the June 1 storm that ripped through the city, Mayor Domenic Sarno officially kicked off a new “public/private”...
