Beverley Scobell

Sandra SteingraberA cancer survivor, the author and ecologist is an internationally recognized expert on environmental links to cancer. Steingraber, a…

While campaigning for president, George W. Bush borrowed a phrase from the Children’s Defense Fund to sell his education message: “No child left behind.”…

After five decades of increasing integration, American schools are now moving in the other direction, toward more segregation for African-American and…

Kevin Stein, a professor of American literature at Bradley University, is Illinois’ poet laureate. The position has been vacant since 2000 when Pulitzer…

Legislative checklistLawmakers and Gov. George Ryan agreed on a $53 billion state spending plan for the 2002 budget year that begins July 1. They put $460…

Legislative checklistThe 92nd General Assembly kicked off the spring session with an ambitious load: 1,523 bills in the Senate and 3,618 bills in the…

HELPING PAWSPrison program saves dogs, trains cons and serves the disabled Skidd is a child of the system, bouncing from one institution to the next. But…

Honoring LincolnA library grows in Springfield Construction of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will begin with groundbreaking…

LEGISLATIVE CHECKLISTBears emerge as biggestbeneficiaries of vetosession benevolenceGov. George Ryan got his two cents in during the fall veto session by…