Gatehouse Media has been slashing staff all over the place — mostly through attrition. The Journal Star recently lost its managing editor of 15 years. Now there’s this word from Springfield:
State Journal-Register’s publisher Sue Schmitt, editor Barry Locher and managing editor Robert Pope each announced their resignations this afternoon. Their last day will be [...]
Since tonight is the Truth in Taxation public hearing (the Journal Star has a good article on this by John Sharp), let’s talk about taxes.
Here’s an interesting chart that I got from City Manager Randy Oliver. It shows a comparison of property tax rates from 1986-2006. The dark blue line is the [...]
Normally, editorials are on the Opinion page of the Journal Star, usually page A4. But they must have made an exception this morning because they put their Kellar Branch editorial on the front page. The article is framed from the perspective of a trail advocate, which is the editorial position of the newspaper. [...]
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