Water plant staffing hubbub

While Waterloo’s new state-of-the-art $30-plus million water plant remains on schedule to begin operation this fall, the matter of how best to staff the facility is still to be determined. …

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LSVs in Columbia?

A Columbia man is halfway to his goal of obtaining enough signatures to revisit the possibility of allowing low-speed vehicles within Columbia city  limits. The issue had been proposed in…

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State budget breakdown

The Illinois General Assembly last Wednesday passed a $53.1 billion state budget for fiscal year 2025, with some of the larger line items focusing on a regional quantum information science…

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Call for halt to postage hike

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) asked the Postal Regulatory Commission last week to halt a postal rate increase scheduled for July. He was joined…

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