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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.

Eric Meyer, a retired U of I professor who prefers publishing his hometown newspaper over fishing, is in the national spotlight after his newsroom was raided for investigating a DUI.

  Tractors parked on the National Mall caused significant damage, according to the National Park Service. (Source: Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Richard Hofmeister, Negative Number: 79-1675-29A) While the President was supportive of the plight of the farmers converging on Capitol Hill, much of Congress did not feel the same way, even the farmers among them. Freshman Democrat from Texas and farmer, Charles W. Stenholm was worried about the effectiveness of a "tractorcade." “The farmers�...