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Photo courtesy of Shatriya Smith. John Crisp Jr. stands with signs he created for the SEAP project, located at the intersection of South Grand Avenue and 14th Street. Political signs littered the landscape during last year's campaign season. "Some of those signs were left behind," said Shatriya Smith, who lives on the east side of Springfield, "adding to the blight and trash that is already in our neighborhood." But what if those types of signs ...

Politicians say stuff. We must fight disinvestment in struggling communities. By using public money to leverage private dollars, we can make Skittles fall from the sky. Then there is White Oaks Mall, downtown Springfield and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Instead of Skittles, we face an Orange Julius rain, which is as yucky as it sounds. Politicians had eight years to get their snuff together – that's how long ago the feds greenlighted a rail corridor expansion project that dooms the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency complex on North Grand Avenue...

The new kid on the artistic block is the nonprofit Creators of Art, Music and Poetry, or CAMP. The brainchild of local musician Jamie Merideth and brought to fruition by his own hard work and some input from music columnist and veteran performer Tom Irwin, CAMP strives to promote the creative branches mentioned within its name – art, music and poetry. The endeavor has also benefited from the help of Sheila Walk of the Springfield Area Arts Council, Brian Crowdson of Crowdson Creative and The Legacy Theatre's Scott Richardson, who created their logo. After a successful debut show in Novemb...

It doesn't feel like 2021 yet I'm hoping it will by january 20 who knows what all will happen even is happening in this crazy...

The nation's top doctor recently stopped in Illinois to urge people to get vaccinated. At a Dec. 22 press conference in Chicago, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recounted speaking earlier in the day with a nurse at a hospital who worked in an ICU that was at capacity. "Even if you don't personally feel at risk from COVID, your actions still can have an impact on you, your family and your community in other ways," said Adams. "That full ICU, it's full because there are COVID patients pushing it over the top." That means people facing emergencies such as car accidents or heart attacks c...