A half-dozen central Illinoisans is among 49 top college students to be honored Nov. 6 by the the Lincoln Academy of Illinois.
The Lincoln Academy gives Student Laureate Awards annually to seniors from each of the four-year, degree-granting colleges and universities in the state, plus one community college student.
The award ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site.
The Lincoln Academy’s Student Laureate Awards are presented for excellence in classroom and extracurricular activities.
Student laureates for 2010 from area colleges or from the Springfield area:
University of Illinois Springfield, Kimberly Bartosiak, Bethalto
The award was featured in a November 1, 2010, article in The State Journal-Register.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Illinois' unique campaign concludes
Illinois heads for the polls Tuesday to close one of the most unpredictable election seasons ever.
The only certainty is that neither of the top two offices — governor or U.S. Senate — will be won by anyone who has previously won either post. There is no elected incumbent on the ballot.
That unusual twist comes as the result of two national political stories in the last two years that had Illinois at their epicenters: the rise of Barack Obama, and the fall of Rod Blagojevich.
"It's a very unusual (governor's) race because you have two candidates who weren't supposed to be there," said Kent Redfield, political scientist at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Redfield's comments were featured in an October 31, 2010, article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Download a PDF of the article
The only certainty is that neither of the top two offices — governor or U.S. Senate — will be won by anyone who has previously won either post. There is no elected incumbent on the ballot.
That unusual twist comes as the result of two national political stories in the last two years that had Illinois at their epicenters: the rise of Barack Obama, and the fall of Rod Blagojevich.
"It's a very unusual (governor's) race because you have two candidates who weren't supposed to be there," said Kent Redfield, political scientist at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Redfield's comments were featured in an October 31, 2010, article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Download a PDF of the article
Control of Illinois House, Senate at stake
Democrat Michael Madigan on Tuesday will try to extend his long run as Illinois House speaker, hoping that the widespread expectation of Republican momentum in this year's election doesn't turn into a sequel to 1994.
That's the year the Southwest Side chieftain tumbled from power, the only blemish since he first seized control 28 years ago, an exile that lasted but two years.
Madigan and House Republican leader Tom Cross, joined by Democratic Senate President John Cullerton and Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno, are dumping scads of cash into the most competitive races, hoping to tip the scales their way.
It's also expected the record for spending on a single legislative seat will fall, with the tab for one downstate Senate race projected to surpass $2.4 million, said Kent Redfield, a longtime campaign finance expert based at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Redfield's comments were featured in an October 31, 2010, article in the Chicago Tribune.
Download a PDF of the article
That's the year the Southwest Side chieftain tumbled from power, the only blemish since he first seized control 28 years ago, an exile that lasted but two years.
Madigan and House Republican leader Tom Cross, joined by Democratic Senate President John Cullerton and Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno, are dumping scads of cash into the most competitive races, hoping to tip the scales their way.
It's also expected the record for spending on a single legislative seat will fall, with the tab for one downstate Senate race projected to surpass $2.4 million, said Kent Redfield, a longtime campaign finance expert based at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Redfield's comments were featured in an October 31, 2010, article in the Chicago Tribune.
Download a PDF of the article
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