Many of the graves are illegible, and in a prominent area the base of a rusting wrought iron fence lies like a row of crooked teeth. In another corner, an old stone marking the death of one of the thousands of Civil War casualties, sinks toward oblivion. On the whole, the cemetery seems so decrepit that I couldn't help looking up through the trees to see if vultures weren't circling. Even on the day I walked through, the two workers cutting grass and blowing leaves seemed to do no more than raise a cloud of dust, like one might have seen on a battlefield over 130 years ago. If we fail to honor and remember our past we will regrettably be destined to repeat it.
Cobden teachers are on strike.
SIU faculty and service staff work without a contract. Seems like an every-year occurrence in Southern Illinois. At least then they might have more credibility than the Department of Education. The results of our survey about equal representation are in. Sixty-six percent agree that we need a more representative system.