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News :: Prisons |
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County Jail Gets New Library |
by Chris Evans
Email: caevans2 (nospam) hotmail.com |
18 Sep 2005
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 The Champaign County Jail now has a library!
There are two jail facilities in Champaign County. Although the downtown jail has a physical library space, it had, unbelievably, a dismal collection of Harlequin romances and about five other novels as its total inventory. That all changed last week Thursday, September 15th, when the UC-IMC Books to Prisoners program volunteers put more than 1000 books on the shelves. |
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Announcement :: UCIMC |
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Come support "UP ALL NIGHT w/RADIO FREE URBANA" on Sept 17-18!!!!! |
by Lynsee Melchi
Email: lemelchi (nospam) uiuc.edu |
14 Sep 2005
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 Please come support the latest fundraiser for Radio Free Urbana! We need your help to get this station up and running!
RFU will be throwing a musical campout at the Kalyx Center near Monticello on Saturday Sept 17-18. The lineup includes 6 local bands as well as a few DJs to keep things going all night.
For the low price of $10 you can come out and hear music, enjoy a night of camping, and get a complimentary breakfast c/o Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant. Red Herring will also be on hand to sell food on Sat night. |
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News :: Miscellaneous |
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Champaign-Urbana Residents Send Truck Load of Food to Rural Mississippi After Meeting Residents Who've Come Here For Help in Katrina's Aftermath |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com |
05 Sep 2005
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 There are no television cameras there to show Hurricane Katrina’s destruction. And no federal aid has come yet either. But the residents of rural Laurel, Mississippi, a town of 20,000, will soon receive a semi truck from Champaign carrying thousands of pounds of canned goods, water, diapers and infant formula. A small but willing group of ordinary folks from central Illinois and central Mississippi, who met for the first time this weekend, made it all happen. |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Champaign County Board Keeps Racial Disparity Study Money Intact After Citizens Mobilize in 11th Hour |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com |
19 Aug 2005
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Eleventh hour organizing Thursday by citizens persuaded the majority of Champaign county board members not to transfer funds allocated for a disparity study to a remodeling project at the Brookens Administrative Center that some say could ultimately involve hiring female and minority owned contractors. Instead, the Board voted to fund the remodeling project with other monies. The $54,145 appropriated for the disparity study to document county discrimination against minority and female contractors remains intact. However, the disparity study funds must be spent by the end of this year or they will be returned to the general fund. |
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News :: Protest Activity |
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Senator Obama becomes AWARE |
by Jan Kruse
Email: jandurl (nospam) insightbb.com |
18 Aug 2005
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 The Terminal building hosted an Obama townhall meeting today August 18.
Inside the crowds were waiting. Outside, AWARE was on the street with Senator Obama! |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Reallocate Racial Disparity Study Money to Remodeling Projects? Champaign County Board to Vote on Issue Thursday |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com |
17 Aug 2005
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The Champaign County Board will decide tomorrow night if it wants to reallocate money previously appropriated for a disparity study towards remodeling office space at the Brookens Administrative Center that some say could ultimately involve hiring female and minority-owned contractors. |
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News :: Prisons |
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Judge Difanis Excludes Champaign County Board From Jail Issues Team, Board to Hold Series of Study Sessions Instead |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com |
11 Aug 2005
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Champaign County has two jails and some officials would like just one. These officials suggest closing the jail built in downtown Urbana in 1980 and expanding the size of the satellite jail built in 1996 to expand the total available jail space. Talk of a possible jail expansion has sparked the creation of two official but separate jail fact finding teams while raising fears among some citizen activists that as physical jail size increases, so will the number of people incarcerated, particularly black males. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Hate Crime Dropped - News Gazette Silent and Community Unaware |
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by chico |
07 Aug 2005
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Last April, two young Champaign residents forcibly entered a home in West Urbana and allegedly hit the resident with a bat while yelling at him about his sexual orientation.
The residents were Richard Rockwell, 22, and Christine Marshall, 21, and the location of the crime was the 500 block of West Elm Street, according to court records.
Last Friday criminal charges of a hate crime and home invasion were dismissed in return for their guilty plea of trespassing.
Last Saturday the News-Gazette ran a tiny three inch article at the bottom of the third page with the headline 2 RECEIVE PROBATION IN TRESPASSING CASE. It is signed by the News Gazette rather than a staff writer meaning they didn't assign a writer in investigate. Why did they highlight this a "trespassing case" and not a hate crime case? I was unable to find any article about this crime in the News-Gazette in April. Why did such a serious crime not warrant a story? |
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News :: Prisons |
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Champaign County Officials Discuss Local Jails; Hint At Expansion, Agree To Gather Information for County Board |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com |
29 Jul 2005
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A group of six Champaign County officials met at the Brookens Administrative Center Thursday to discuss "how to handle the jail population and financing options," according to Steve Ziegler, first assistant state's attorney, who chaired the meeting.
The agenda distributed at the meeting identified the group as the "Jail Expansion Project Team." The agenda included the seal of the County of Champaign and the words "Champaign County Board Committee Agenda." |
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