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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

September 4, 2019

Governor JB Pritzker speaks to community members on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 inside Paul Simon Public Policy Institute during a meet and greet with legislatures.

Governor Pritzker expands gender options on IL licenses and IDs, adds non-binary option

August 25, 2019

The SIU Women's Golf Team celebrates their NCAA Regional seeding announcement on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at Copper Dragon Bar in Carbondale, Illinois.

NCAA Bound: Women’s Golf heads to Washington for regional tournament

April 24, 2019

Women can already receive abortion pills by mail in 4 states, what’s next?

January 19, 2018

Now, 31 percent of American abortion patients choose pill-induced abortion over surgery.

Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, takes a brief tour of Texas A&M campus on December 6, 2016, in College Station, Texas. On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, he led dozens of torch-wielding white supremacists in a rally at the Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., for the first time since a neo-Nazi attacked marching protesters, killing one. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman/TNS)

Current hysteria has parallels with early 20th century

October 25, 2017

Former Rep. Michael Grimm, a Staten Island Republican who went to prison on felony tax fraud charges, announced on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, he is running for his old job in New York City, N.Y. (Dennis Van Tine/Abaca Press/TNS)

With Trump in office, do scandals matter anymore?

October 13, 2017

Paul Simon Institute director finalist James Coyle answers questions after his presentation Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, inside the Illinois
Room at the Student Center. “I’m apolitical,” Dr. Coyle said when patriotism and support of
unnamed government administrations were brought up. (Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE)

James Coyle makes case for Paul Simon Institute director

September 28, 2017

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 11, 2017 in New York. Puerto Rico is pressing its quest for statehood. (Erik McGregor/Sipa USA/TNS)

Puerto Rico pressing on in its quest for statehood

August 23, 2017

Juliette Polonsky, Pasadena in a during rally a local group calling itself Refuse Fascism rallies at City Hall in Los Angeles to denounce the violence and honor the victims in Charlottesville, Virginia August 13, 2017. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times/TNS)

GOP activists scold Republicans for criticizing Trump over Charlottesville

August 14, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump pumps his fist, with running mate Mike Pence standing by, following a speech to his supporters after winning the election at the Election Night Party at the Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday/TNS)

Pence’s vote advances bill that would let states withhold federal funds from Planned Parenthood

March 30, 2017

U.S. President Donald J. Trump walks back to the Oval Office as he returns to the White House on March 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Trump White House sends mixed signals on House health bill

March 7, 2017

U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

In red and blue America, they watched same speech but heard different things

March 1, 2017

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