Frustration is surging among the low-wage workers who make up the backbone of the nursing home industry, as tens of thousands of their colleagues call out sick with covid-19, inflaming [...]
From UACT President Sheila Stocks-Smith: As the city's education liaison, I provided advice and counsel to the mayor and municipal leaders on educational priorities; developed and supported partnerships between city departments, [...]
Tax Increment Financing. Local governments often hail this tool as a way to revitalize investment-deprived neighborhoods, fix dilapidated roads, clean up polluted waters, revamp blighted property, and foster commercial activity and job [...]
For much of the pandemic, evictions court was not busy, due to dual state and federal bans on evictions to curb homelessness as COVID spread. But in the two months [...]
The Springfield Project is hoping to help grow and build businesses benefiting the entire community. More specifically, officials want to acquire a vacant building located on 1100 South Grand Ave. [...]
The Springfield-Sangamon County Transportation Center will be located between Ninth and 11th streets and is projected to cost $86 million overall. The center will bring SMTD buses, Amtrak, intercity buses, paratransit vehicles [...]
Janelle Witcher thinks of the library as her second home. She’s a single mom who lives in Richmond, and a few times a week, she drives her four children to [...]
What we have not figured out—and what we won't figure out with another flood of federal infrastructure spending—is how to translate maintenance into growth. How do we go out and [...]
The Pedestrians in Peoria, Mary Hosbrough and Jennifer Jacobsen-Wood, began the project two years ago in November 2019, right before the pandemic caused shutdowns across the country. Now, the duo [...]