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About LDN

Lincoln Daily News.com
601 Keokuk St.
Lincoln, IL 62656

TEL: (217) 732-7443
FAX: (217) 732-9630

Lincoln Daily News publishes daily news about the Lincoln/Logan County area on the Internet at www.lincolndailynews.com. (We are not a print publication.)  All subscriptions are free!

Content:

The articles published in Lincoln Daily News are the result of research, interviews and news releases submitted. Any opinions expressed are those of the writers.

Our staff:

In the office

Managing editor:   Jan Youngquist

ldneditor@lincolndailynews.com

Technician, writer:  Gina Sennett

gsldn@lincolndailynews.com

Text processing: Mary Krallmann

Advertising sales and public relations:

Lucky Eichner:  ads@lincolndailynews.com

Writers [click here]

For employment information, contact Lincoln Daily News at their offices.

 

Our mission:

The mission of Lincoln Daily News is to tell the stories of Logan County in a contemporaneous manner, with lively writing and a predilection for simple truth fairly told. Lincoln Daily News seeks a relationship with the good people of Logan County that is honest, neighborly and never patronizing. Lincoln Daily News presents news within a full context that contributes to understanding. Lincoln Daily News is more interested in the marketplace of ideas than the competition of personalities. Without shrinking from the bold delivery of unvarnished fact, Lincoln Daily News operates from the premise that God's creatures deserve the presumption of right motive. Lincoln Daily News eschews malice and cynicism; it approaches every person with dignity and every subject with equanimity. In short, Lincoln Daily News informs, stimulates and entertains.

Corrections:

Please contact us by phone, fax, mail or e-mail with any information about mistakes, typos or erroneous information.  If the error is in an item which is still in the paper, we will correct it online immediately.

 

Our services:

Lincoln Daily News provides daily news, sports, features and commentary on Lincoln, Logan County and the surrounding area. 

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Letters to the Editor

The Lincoln Daily News publishes letters to the editor as they are received.
 The letters are not edited in content and do not necessarily reflect 
the views of Lincoln Daily News.

Lincoln Daily News requests that writers responding to controversial issues address the issue and refrain from personal attacks. Thank you!

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Letters to the Editor
Lincoln Daily News
601 Keokuk St.
Lincoln, IL  62656

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Tobacco sales researched; youth say local businesses show they care

To the editor:

On Dec. 10, 2002, high school students from the REALITY Illinois Teen Coalition of Logan County participated in a project, Operation Storefront, where we visited 18 tobacco vendors in Lincoln to learn about tobacco advertising in Logan County. We would like to thank the stores that participated and helped us learn about tobacco advertising. Thanks to Thornton's, Wal-Mart, Eagle Discount Foods, Ayerco, Clark, Kroger, Discount Tobacco, Qik-n-EZ, Walgreens, Fifth Street Food Market, Quick Way Foods, Green Oil, Apollo Mart, IGA, CVS, Bruns Service Center and Casey's General Store.

In the three years that this project has been done, we have seen less and less tobacco advertising in the Logan County businesses. We see more and more anti-tobacco warnings in the stores. Thank you. We are pleased to see that most stores have cigarettes behind the counter. But how about putting chewing tobacco and cigars behind the counter also?

 

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We appreciate all the businesses that are trying to prevent youth access to tobacco. Tobacco companies are spending $190 every second to get youth to smoke! Logan County businesses care about us!

REALITY Illinois Teen Coalition of Logan County

(Hartsburg-Emden High School, Lincoln Community High School, Mount Pulaski High School)

(posted 1-11-03)

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