The Last ‘Thank You’
January 28, 2015by Loren Logsdon On the edge of the Heliotrope University campus, at the beginning of the town’s business district, is a popular restaurant called Wong’s Asian Banquet, owned and…
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Farming Is Hard Work
January 21, 2015It was the middle of a beautiful Saturday morning in June, and young Marsha Greenfield was gathering wild flowers that grew in the fence row on the north forty. The sky was so blue…
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Incident at Poindexter’s Auto Mart
January 14, 2015It was a beautiful late spring day in Weeder’s Clump. Rusty Camaro, a recent graduate of Heliotrope University, was looking out the window of Poindexter’s Auto Mart, waiting for…
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The Multiple Choice Professor Manqué
January 7, 2015Prof Orville Korkoff chuckled with glee as he collected the exams of the four students who had told him the ridiculous excuse about a tire blowing out on the way back from Florida,…
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The Multiple Choice Professor
December 31, 2014by Loren Logsdon During the 1970s at San Andreas Fault State University, there was a famous professor, a true legend who was both respected and feared, respected by his colleagues…
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The Christmas Present
December 24, 2014by Loren Logsdon Bryce Nimbus awoke with a start, sat bolt upright in bed, and wondered what had disturbed his deep and delicious sleep. Ordinarily, Bryce would go to sleep and…
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Former governor: Give public a say in stadium spending
April 16, 2024Third in a series looking at the public funding of sports stadiums in Illinois Pat Quinn was on the ice in 2010 when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, and in Houston in 2005 when…
Illinois teacher shortage persists, survey finds
April 6, 2024SPRINGFIELD – Illinois continues to suffer from a shortage of teachers and other education professionals, although recent efforts by the state to ease the strain have made an impact….
Bills in state Senate would further regulate battery storage and disposal
April 6, 2024SPRINGFIELD — Two bills that would regulate battery disposal and storage are awaiting action from the full Illinois Senate after unanimous committee approval. Senate Bill 3481, sponsored…
Messages of hate found in driveways, on web
April 6, 2024Scott Britton walked out to driveway to get his Sunday newspaper, only to find near it a plastic bag filled with rice (to keep it from blowing away) and anti-Semitic literature. Britton,…
Watchdog: Teams score at public’s expense
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