A Springfield native, Geoff Isringhausen is the dealer principal for Isringhausen Imports, a family-owned business located just a few blocks from where he was raised. He graduated from University of Illinois in 1982 with a degree in mechanical engineering and worked for a petroleum pipeline company in Atlanta before joining his brother, Rob, who had […]
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Businesses hoping to enter cannabis market face significant challenges
While Illinois’ cannabis market is booming and the state has made progress in diversifying new licensees, significant hurdles remain for businesses hoping to enter the expanding market, according to an independent review of the industry. Celebratory news releases have marked several industry successes in recent months – the state saw the opening of its 100th social […]
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Six east-side businesses receive grants
Six businesses were awarded $280,000 in grants by the Springfield City Council on Sept. 17 from the city’s share of sales taxes on adult-use cannabis sales. The unanimous vote on the allocations, which were part of the council’s “consent agenda,” came more than two years after the first round of allocations and after a September […]
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Stakeholders work on cannabis equity efforts
Medical marijuana patients can now purchase cannabis grown by small businesses as part of their allotment, Illinois’ top cannabis regulator said, but smaller, newly licensed cannabis growers are still seeking greater access to the state’s medical marijuana customers. Illinois legalized medicinal marijuana beginning in 2014, then legalized it for recreational use in 2020. While the […]
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CWLP announces exam dates for apprenticeship electrician positions
The City Water, Light and Power Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee is announcing its next round of 2024 exam dates for those interested in starting a career as an apprentice electrician at CWLP. The CWLP Electrical Apprenticeship program includes on-the-job training and coursework to provide knowledge and technical information related to the various positions offered. CWLP […]
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Real estate commissions have changed
Important changes to the way real estate agents are paid went into effect Aug. 17, but will buyers and sellers be affected significantly? In the past, the seller of a property has generally paid the entire commission, which is typically a percentage of the property’s sale price. The commission is then split between the seller’s […]
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Q&A with Dan Mahony
Dan Mahony is originally from New Jersey and worked for higher educational institutions in South Carolina, Ohio and Kentucky before becoming president of the Southern Illinois University System in March 2020. He began his career in public accounting and later worked in intercollegiate athletics before holding faculty and administrative positions. He and his wife, Laura, […]
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Springfield doctor returns from mission to simulate Mars
Back from a 378-day NASA simulation of life on Mars, Dr. Nathan Jones says the mission at Johnson Space Center in Houston was a success, and he has no regrets about the time away from his family in Springfield. “I missed out on a lot, but I still believe it was worth it,” Jones, an […]
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Scoop and run
Today, the sick and injured are transported in mini-emergency rooms on wheels with staff trained to care for traumas. But in the old days, ambulances were horse-drawn wagons, and later, hearses with a driver who couldn’t do much more than give a bandage. In much of the country, from the late 1800s through the 1960s, […]
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Hands-on mental health training
The recent revival of a program at Packard Mental Health Center that gives young doctors hands-on experience treating patients in a state psychiatric hospital will benefit the public in Springfield and throughout Illinois, supporters of the relaunch say. “This will help create that pipeline of future psychiatrists to serve both in our state-operated facilities and […]
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Illinois expanding Medicaid to nonmedical services
Many people enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program will soon be eligible to receive a host of nonmedical services that could improve their overall health, including housing and nutrition assistance, violence prevention services, and services to help them transition out of incarceration. Under a new policy that the Biden administration launched last year, state Medicaid programs can […]
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Medical students get practice through Standardized Patient Program
Eight private exam rooms, each with a large, one-way mirror, line a curving corridor. On the other side of the mirror is a room where instructors watch what is happening in the exam room while listening through headphones. In the exam room is a patient dressed in a gown awaiting the entrance of a medical […]