2014 September Issue

    EDWARDSVILLE — Lewis and Clark Community College is set in October to start converting the historic Lincoln School in Edwardsville into the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities.    The goal is to finish construction by the end of 2015 and open to the public in January 2016.    “Lincoln School isn’t on the list of…

It’s a bad idea and a bad way to fund education     A series of nonbinding referendums will appear on Illinois’ November ballot, addressing issues the General Assembly already rejected this past spring. Among them will be a special section devoted to class warfare.    This nonbinding referendum – the so-called “millionaires tax” – asks voters…

Yes, fair taxation a good idea, but current ballot initiative has flaws     Article 9, Section 3(a) of the Illinois Constitution mandates that the state’s personal income tax be imposed at one flat rate across all levels of income — period. That means someone earning the minimum wage pays the same income tax rate as…

    Brock Wilkerson is on the ground floor of a high-flying business that he feels is bound for even greater heights.    In that regard the Southern Illinois native is not unlike some of the largest companies in the country, who are chasing after the commercial drone industry, which he hopes really takes flight once federal regulators figure…

    The commercial real estate market has been through some tough times over the last six years but it’s heating up and industrial real estate is leading the way.    The CoStar Group, a research firm that provides information, analytics and marketing services to the multi-family and commercial real estate industry, recently issued its mid-year report…