Instead of the 86 polling places that were used in Champaign County for the November general election, Clerk Aaron Ammons has cut the number nearly in half for the April 6 consolidated election where voters will chose municipal, school district and other local offices.
Consolidated elections typically draw fewer voters than fall elections and state law allows election authorities to âclusterâ polling places in such elections. It will save the county an estimated $52,000 (for both the Feb. 23 primary and the April vote) and potentially expose fewer election judges to the coronavirus, Ammons said.
While more than 96,000 people voted in the Nov. 6 general election, the 2017 consolidated election attracted just 26,865 voters. There were even fewer in 2019: 17,266.
From Wayne Weber, who gave him his big break at Worden-Martin,
MARK PELAFOS learned a lot about leadership and much of what he now knows about the car business.
And from the boss he had in a part-time job during his teenage years, the former Champaign Central Maroon learned the finer points of attention to detail â and that his future definitely wasnât in kitchen work.
âWhen I was 15 years old, I washed dishes at Paradise Inn,â Pelafos said. âI remember the plates were real hot coming out of the dishwasher and Peter Tomaras looking over my shoulder inspecting the silverware and asking me to wipe off water spots.â
Abhijit Gupta is one of the leading practitioners of book history in twenty-first century India. He looks back at the work done in the past twenty years and considers the challenges ahead in a conversation with Murali Ranganathan
When did you realise that you had evolved into a book historian from a professor of English literature? How did the evolution happen?
It happened the other way around. I started teaching in an English department in 1999 and prior to that I had completed a PhD during 1994-96 on the publishing histories of some women novelists in late 19th-century England. But when I started my doctoral research in 1994, I was not even aware that a discipline called book history existed. So you could say that this was a classic instance of speaking prose without knowing it.
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curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past
curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past
The Evolution of Black Life in Little Dixie Published December 21st, 2020 at 3:38 PM
In 1956, Pearl Spencer was one of the first Black students to enroll in Parkville’s newly integrated high school.
Spencer and her siblings still vividly remember their experiences growing up Black in Parkville – the good, the bad and the ugly.
A reader asked curiousKC to look into who lives in what was once the African American section of Parkville where they recently bought a home. This reader wanted to know “about varied influences – especially slavery and the emerging university – on life for Black folk then.”