Tom Kacich
Enterprise Editor and Columnist at The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL)
Columnist at WDWS-AM (Champaign, IL)
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1 month ago |
news-gazette.com | Tom Kacich
Well, that was fun. The intention, back in August 1975, was to be here a few years and then move on. Aside from a few old guys who had been at the paper since the 1930s, the staff of The News-Gazette was young people who viewed this as a stop on the way to a big-city paper or an industry position. I was hired to work the copy desk, which everyone but editor Harold “Shorty” Holmes knew was a mistake because I had never done it before and I only wanted to be a writer.
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1 month ago |
news-gazette.com | Tom Kacich
Shortly after the U.S. House approved a spending plan that almost assuredly requires deep cuts to the federal- and state-funded Medicaid program, U.S. Rep.
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1 month ago |
bnd.com | Tom Kacich
D.W. Stevick wasn't the first person to suggest that Champaign and Urbana should merge to become one larger city. But he was the first to have to apologize for suggesting it on the front page of his paper. People had been promoting the idea of a Champaign-Urbana consolidation as far back as 1865 - just five years after Champaign was incorporated - and it was a pet project of Stevick, publisher of The News-Gazette.
Tom Kacich | 100 years after merger first floated, Champaign, Urbana happy to be separately together
2 months ago |
news-gazette.com | Tom Kacich
D.W. Stevick wasn’t the first person to suggest that Champaign and Urbana should merge to become one larger city. But he was the first to have to apologize for suggesting it on the front page of his paper. People had been promoting the idea of a Champaign-Urbana consolidation as far back as 1865 — just five years after Champaign was incorporated — and it was a pet project of Stevick, publisher of The News-Gazette.
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2 months ago |
bnd.com | Tom Kacich
Fundraising for the Feb. 25 Urbana mayoral primary election is approaching the $50,000 mark, with most of it going to DeShawn Williams, the chief deputy in the Champaign County treasurer's office. Williams has raised more than $37,500, including $29,830 that is itemized and $7,758 that is not itemized (individual contributions of less than $150). His opponent, Annie Adams, has raised $7,485 in itemized contributions and $2,521 in non-itemized contributions.
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