EDWARDSVILLE – Maryville resident Wendy Erhart plans to use her experience as a businesswoman to bring reform to the economy of Illinois if elected to the 112th State House District.
BENTON — The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has denied a motion to dismiss a petition filed by the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SUIE) in an ongoing racial discrimination suit involving employee Janice LaRiviere.
SPRINGFIELD – Attorneys for Independent Maps submitted a brief to the Illinois Supreme Court arguing that a lower court’s ruling against the constitutionality of a proposed redistricting reform amendment is contrary to both the drafters' intent for the 1970 Illinois Constitution and the language of the constitution’s provision allowing voters to propose amendments.
The Fifth District Appellate Court has ruled in favor of a tenured Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor who claims former colleagues made false allegations of sexual misconduct outside their official duties to ruin her reputation and mentally harm her.
Some state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem open to at least a few of the reform ideas recently proposed by an Illinois think tank to help reduce higher education costs and make colleges and universities more affordable to students in the state.
SPRINGFIELD – With the Southern Illinois University (SIU) system on the verge of lowering a budget ax that will slash both jobs and classes, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are vowing to step up efforts to find a solution even as the House adjourned for a four-week break.
EDWARDSVILLE — Katie Stuart, a mathematics instructor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), officially announced her candidacy for the Illinois House of Representatives’ 112th District on Thursday at the Madison County Courthouse in Edwardsville.
Those who blame the state's higher education funding shortfalls on Springfield gridlock should focus on the real causes of the crisis: skyrocketing pensions, bloated administrative costs and soaring tuition and fees for students, according to the co-author of a recent study.
Third Judicial Circuit judges have voted to select Donald M. Flack, Maureen D. Schuette and Luther W. Simmons as associate judges of the Third Judicial Circuit.
UnsellSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville professor Curtis Smith alleges that Deborah Pontious, former wife of felon Gary Peel, defamed him after a relationship between them ended.Smith sued Pontious in Madison County on Oct. 3, over messages she allegedly sent to his sister in law and his supervisor at SIUE a year ago.Smith’s lawyers, Ed Unsell and Janel Freeman of East Alton, wrote that Pontious
Short The attorney for an East Alton man who has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has requested to withdraw as counsel for his client.
Napp Madison County Associate Judge Kyle Napp raised about 23 times more money than her Republican opponent, Thomas Burkart, during the same three month period in their race to be circuit judge, records show.
