Organization | • | Paul Simon Public Policy Institute | [X] |
| | 1: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Fall 2008, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale conducted its first statewide public opinion survey since 2004. Topics included the general direction of the country, the state, and respondents respective areas of the state; benchmark quality of life measures for education, public safety, the environment, and the economy; opinions on important public issues, such as a proposal to amend the Illinois Constitution to allow recall of statewide elected officials and theproposed Constitutional Convention; and opinions on judicial selection issues in the state. | | | | Date Created: | 02-10-2009 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054651 Original UID: 176061 FIRST WORD: Confronting | |
| 2: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 October | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Since the 2002 release of Richard Floridas seminal book, The Rise of the Creative Class, a considerable amount of the regional and local development discussion has focused on his concept of attracting and retaining the creative class as a vehicle of economic growth. Floridas (2002) work centers on the premise that contemporary development is not a process of attracting large employers but attracting talented people to an area; it is a process of jobs following people, not people following jobs. Although Florida has a primarily urban focus (Peck, 2005), with more than 59 million or 19.3 percent of the American people living in rural areas, including nearly 12 percent of Illinoisans (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013), ignoring the impact of rural artists and creative activities comes at the detriment of local, state and national economic progress. With Florida in mind as an avenue to increasing economic activity in the region, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute convened a day-long conference held at the Carbondale Civic Center April 29, 2014. As part of the conference the information contained in this paper was presented by Kent Dolezal, Lindsay Knaus and Nichole Sack. This papers purpose is to summarizes the concepts in those remarks and disseminate the information to a wider audience. | | | | Date Created: | 06-25-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | Simon Review # 39 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054724 Original UID: 176143 FIRST WORD: Creative | |
| 3: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Southern Illinois is a land rich in history, culture and friendly people. Its topography was originally shaped by the great glaciers of the Ice Age, which pushed this far south, leaving a hilly and rough terrain that is much different from the rich and flat farmland of central and northern Illinois. There are advantages to this physical terrain in terms of natural beauty; however, those advantages are also mitigated by the impact on farming, as most of southern Illinois supports only smaller and more marginal farms. | | | | Date Created: | 04-28-2011 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 25 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054664 Original UID: 176075 FIRST WORD: Climate | |
| 4: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 June | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Since 2008 the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has conducted an annual statewide survey of Illinois voters. The purpose of these surveys has been to document and analyze the views and values of the people of the Prairie State. These surveys now have become an accumulated data collection that allows us to track public opinion in the state for several consecutive years. This is a report of that longitudinal perspective on public opinion in Illinois for the volatile and interesting half decade between 2010 and 2014. | | | | Date Created: | 06-11-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 37 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054676 Original UID: 176087 FIRST WORD: Climate | |
| 5: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 June | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Since January 1, 2015, Illinois has been frozen in a governmental and political gridlock that has dominated the states political discourse, consumed the energies of all involved, and created chaos in governmental and non-profit agencies that normally deliver state services. It has also created untold hardship and suffering among those who are most dependent on state services. The conflict has especially threatened to drastically reduce the quality and missions of the institutions of public higher education in Illinois, a state system that was widely recognized as one of the best in the nation and the world. | | | | Date Created: | 06-15-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper #47 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000058991 Original UID: 180182 FIRST WORD: Climate | |
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