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The Daily Egyptian
Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian
Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian
National Rifle Association of America (NRA) places an advertisement at the entrance with an offer to provide free admission at Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show on April 10 and 11, 2021, at Expo Square in Tulsa, Okla. NRA is a gun rights advocacy group founded with an aim to advance rifle marksmanship.

The state of Illinois’ gun advocacy networks

By Kallie Cox, Editor-in-Chief
May 31, 2021
House destroyed in riot. Photo courtesy of the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library.

For Black Americans, gun culture is linked to a history of resistance against white terror

By Jason Flynn, Staff Reporter
May 18, 2021
People wait in line at the Gun Buyback event on Friday, April 2, 2021 in Decatur, Ill.

Gun buybacks: A successful way to engage the community?

By Kallie Cox, Editor-in-Chief
May 13, 2021
Ray Liss, of Marion, is pushed onto the water on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, on Little Grassy Lake at SIU’s Touch of Nature for the Team River Runner Southern Illinois Kickoff. Greg Nejmanowski, with SIU Veteran Adventures, says, “Research has shown, and I’ve seen it with my own eyes, that [these events] help veterans with their life at home.”

Southern Illinois chapter of Team River Runner starts with a big splash

By Jacob Lorenz, Staff Reporter
September 4, 2019
AJ Travis, 16, of De Soto, takes the U.S. and Illinois Constitution tests Wednesday in preparation for his graduation from Carbondale Community High School’s Rebound program. “I wasn’t doing well in high school,” Travis said. “I was scared to go to classes because of the pressure of too many people and the pressure of doing well. … When I came here they told me the only thing holding you back is yourself. You are the leader of your own path. … This program is really important to a lot of people, especially myself because without it, I would be stuck at home with no direction. Because of this program I’m finally getting the education that I want and I’m finally going to go somewhere in life.” Travis is beginning his first semester at John A. Logan College this fall. The Rebound program, which assists people 16 years of age and older in their attainment of a secondary-education credential, faces possible closure fall semester if it does not receive state or federal funding. — April 27, 2016, Carbondale, Ill. 

State senators urge ISBE to accelerate teacher shortage study

By John Reidy | Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois
November 16, 2017
(DailyEgyptian.com file photo)

Editorial: Illinois higher education leaders need a state budget

By Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill.
March 28, 2017
Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. (Chicago Tribune file photo)

Editorial: Budget issues cause Illinois ‘brain-drain’

By Herald & Review editorial board
February 29, 2016

Editorial: Harder work needed on state budget

By Herald & Review in Decatur
February 17, 2016
Speaker Mike Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton listen as Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks about making changes in the state on Jan. 12, 2015 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Ill. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Editorial: One more call to action on state budget

By Herald & Review in Decatur
February 7, 2016
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