Coal ash is polluting Illinois rivers. Environmentalists want the state to move faster to stop it

Coal ash is polluting Illinois rivers. Environmentalists want the state to move faster to stop it

DANVILLE — On a recent afternoon in early May, Danville resident Germaine Light leashed up her poodle Pippin to take a walk around Kickapoo State Park, along the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River.  Light lives just a few miles from where a coal-fired power plant operated for over five decades until it closed in 2011….

Nursing home industry unlikely to see much help from Springfield in tough budget year

Nursing home industry unlikely to see much help from Springfield in tough budget year

It’s been four years since some of the worst scenes of COVID-19 played out in locked-down nursing homes during the early months of the pandemic.  But while most of the world has moved on, the nursing home industry is still reeling from COVID, which exacerbated pre-existing challenges in long-term care – difficulties hiring and retaining…