Shift oversight from Elected School Boards to unelected, dark-money groups

BY LEN WELLS

BY CHRISSY SCOTT-LOPEZ

BY RICH MILLER

BY LEN WELLS

I would be the first to admit having some unpleasant interactions with the police, especially as a teenage driver! I also remember working late at a gas station when four black men pulled in and kept me very busy washing the windshield, checking the tires, etc. The gas station had been robbe…

By Len Wells

BY MIKE ROUX

On 31 March a local man was unexpectedly called home by God.

BY LEN WELLS

I reread the writing prompt several times: Write a story that starts with a restaurant sever going over the daily special. That’s not a typo; it read “sever,” not “server.”

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BY LEN WELLS

To the Editor:

BY MIKE ROUX

BY LEN WELLS

By MIKE ROUX

BY LEN WELLS

BY DAVID PORTER

By Len Wells

By RICH MILLER

BY LEN WELLS

By John Tillman 

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The City of Carmi Police Department is asking for the communities help in securing a new Police Canine for our Department. Our current K9, K9 Orest, came to our Department in July of 2012 after K9 Riley retired from Service. Police Canine’s usually have a service life of 6-8 years before ret…

Twenty years ago-April 19, 1999-we took possession of our funeral service business in White County, Southern IL, consisting of four locations, Carmi (which we made our home) Enfield, Mill Shoals and Norris City. For different reasons, after a few years, we closed Mill Shoals and Norris City,…

China’s National Science Review reported in March 2019 that Bing Su of the Kunming Institute of Zoology has inserted human genes into monkeys. His apparent goal was to investigate how the brains of early primates developed along different paths with monkeys remaining in the trees and Homo sa…

For many years many of America’s universities have gladly accepted contributions from wealthy donors whose children or grandchildren then receive special consideration for admission to those schools. The mock shock of the academic world over the current debacle concerning bribery and fraud i…

A wise friend once said, “If the answer you’ve been given seems just too easy to be real, that’s probably because it is.”

I read the reports of the death of 85-year-old Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019) who was one of the Western World’s most famous fashion designers. Lagerfeld had his own design company and designed for Chanel and Fendi. Although I had never heard of him until he died as my clothes designer is Levi S…

The first television I saw was displayed in the front window of an appliance store on Main Street in Pawhuska, Oklahoma in 1950. It had a real wood cabinet which swallowed the 9” screen. The picture was a blurry black and white that showed the same Indian Chief test pattern for hours. It jus…

As many of you, my first job for pay was mowing neighbors’ yards. My brother Phil and I would start the first week after school let out, usually about June 01, asking around for jobs. We charged $2.00 for mowing and trimming a house and yard on one or two lots. The lots were 25’ wide by 100’…

When I started reading your December 12th issue and saw the editorial by

The state's next governor said he'll make legalizing marijuana a top priority, but adult consumers could be waiting a year or more for recreational sales to begin in Illinois.

The chairman of the Illinois Republican Party said he didn't know Gov. Bruce Rauner had asked other people to take his spot in the governor's race after a narrow primary victory and ahead of the November election contest with J.B. Pritzker.

For thousands of years humans have pondered the same theological issues: Are there gods and, if so, are they benevolent, malevolent or indifferent towards humans? Of course, this debate can readily be applied to humans without reference to gods. How do we relate to one another? Are we genera…

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign for a pardon got fresh attention Sunday from President Donald Trump.

Memorials take many forms and have many purposes. Some are large in scope covering acres of land containing statues and museums, such as Gettysburg Battlefield, or are smaller in area but allow visitors to absorb history and meaning through sober reflection, such as the Washita Battlefield N…

Gov. Bruce Rauner said Thursday that taxpayers will end up paying for the decisions of lawmakers who voted to override two of his vetoes.

Surprisingly to me some people actually read last week’s column about a memorial to justice on the courthouse campus. There were telephone calls, personal inquiries and Facebook posts. Thank you everyone! It speaks well for Posey County that people today are taking an interest in recognizing…