Downstate News

 
Colorado Court Strikes Down State Day of Prayer
Courthouse News Service
By JEFF D. GORMAN (CN) - Colorado's Day of Prayer proclamations violate a constitutional bar on a religious preference, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled. On remand, the Denver-based trial court could order an injunction to avoid "irreparable harm.


 
Democrats pick their man to take down state Rep. Derrick Smith
Chicago Journal (blog)
By Ben Meyerson Chicago's leading Democrats are ready to take on their disgraced former colleague Derrick Smith, the state rep who won a primary despite being arrested for accepting a bribe a week before the election.

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NYSUT fights plan for drastic cuts to teaching hospital
AFT - A Union of Professionals (press release)
The SUNY Downstate Medical Center, located in Brooklyn, is the largest teaching hospital in the state—and one of the largest in the nation. It trains more minority physicians, and serves a population more low-income and vulnerable, than any other New ...


 
Mobilizing the Region (blog)
One Region Funders' Group, TSTC Announce Community Assistance Grants for ...
Mobilizing the Region (blog)
This week, the One Region Funders' Group and Tri-State Transportation Campaign announced four grants that will help municipalities and development agencies in downstate New York and Connecticut pursue innovative and equitable transit-oriented ...

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Downstate towns pluck revenue out of power-saving deals
Crain's Chicago Business
By Steve Daniels May 17, 2012 Peoria is the largest of 51 downstate municipalities that grouped together on a contract May 9 to buy electricity on behalf of their households, securing a 34 percent savings from utility Ameren's higher-than-market energy ...


 
Elite Street: Ex-Sox slugger Thome trades up in Western suburbs
Chicago Tribune
The 41-year-old Downstate native and future Hall of Famer now plays for the Philadelphia Phillies -- he was with the Sox from 2006 until 2009 -- but Thome and his family are here for the long haul, his wife, Andrea, told Elite Street.

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As Indiana Toll Road Funds Wind Down, State Looks to More Transportation P3s
Bond Buyer
By Caitlin Devitt CHICAGO — As Indiana spends down $3.8 billion generated by its 2006 lease of the Indiana Toll Road, the state has a series of new public-private partnerships in the pipeline that underscore its continued reliance on the technique to ...

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