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PAST ISSUES
Aoril
2003
Down to the core:
The rotten economy is eating school budgets. As more districts
go bankrupt, will the state help?
March
2003
Out of hiding:
Poverty is on the rise in Illinois and increasingly visible.
It can no longer be overlooked
February
2003
It's the economy, Gov. Blagojevich:
Will Illinois' new chief executive be good or bad for Illinois
business?
January
2003
Executive Decisions:
Rod
Blagojevich won his race for governor handily. Now he has primary
responsibility for eliminating the state’s red ink.
December
2002
Spotlight
on the Capitol:
Springfield welcomes a new governor and General
Assembly
November
2002
Ryan's
paradox:
In a classsic tragedy, the protagonist's character
always prefigures his fall
October
2002
Executive
suite:
The race is on to become the 40th Illinoisan
to move into the governor’s office
September
2002
U.S.
House Speaker J. Dennis hastert is running against history
July/August
2002
On
the Prairie:
restoring our heritage
June
2002
Hard
time:
Illinois is among those states looking for ways
to downsize a prison industry that has been on a growth curve for
more than three decades
May
2002
Terorism's cost hits home:
State and local governments are building an expansive network to
combat potential attacks. How far they go depends on money
More past issues
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May 2003
CURRENT ISSUE
FEATURES
Pedophiles
to pornographers by
Aaron Chambers
The
states have been getting tougher on sex offenders. But over the
next year, Illinois lawmakers are poised to consider their tightest
restrictions yet.
Political
prescription
by Bethany K. Warner
Seniors
have been hard hit by rising drug costs and that puts pressure
on the states to help those who have no coverage.
Got
change
by Dave McKinney
The
state's tollway authority could undergo a dramatic makeover.
ESSAY
Cons
and cults
by Maureen F. McKinney
POSTCARDS
Southern
Illinois
This
region is a place of great beauty, turbulent history and proud
culture. And severe economic needs
Highway
noise
by Joseph Andrew Carrier
P.S.
Stitching freedom by
Peg Kowalczyk
EDITOR'S
NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
It’s
crunch time. Do you
know where your lawmakers are?
STATE
OF THE STATE by Aaron Chambers
Lawmakers
debate reform rather than abolition of the state’s death penalty
BRIEFLY
- WEST
NILE: Local budgets bled dry
- New
front in the telecom battle
- The
debate over retardation
- Doomsday:
Do you know what time it is?
- LEGI
CHECKLIST
- Private
efforts under way to save the glass house
- The
governor’s budget plan is on the table. Let the wrangling begin
- Students
begin an Odyssey through education
- Fitzgerald
bows out
PEOPLE
- BIRTH
ANNOUNCEMENT: Anne Blagojevich
- SHIFTS
AT THE TOP:
Eric Whitaker
- DEPARTURE:
Jess McDonald
- Tribune
writer wins a Pulitzer: Cornelia Grumman
- Illinois
soldiers die in Iraq War
- Ex-Ryan
aide dismissed: Diane Ford
- TRANSITIONS:
Brian McFadden, Carter Hendren, Ira Rogal
Linda
Renee Baker, Larry Woolard
- APPOINTMENTS:
James Kaplan, Steven Lesnik, Larry Trent, William Burke,
Michael Chamness, Rocco Claps, J. Anthony Clark, Leticia
Peralta-Davis
A
VIEW FROM METRO EAST by Patrick E. Gauen
Madison County has redefined the action in class action litigation
ENDS
AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III
The
governor’s budget blueprint begs for willing suspension of disbelief
QUOTEABLE
"I
think they’ll be surprised. But would they turn the clock
back 31 years and not have Art Berman serve at all? I don’t
think so."
Former
state Sen. Arthur Berman, quoted by Chicago Sun-Times reporter
Tim Novak in an April 6 story citing Berman’s pension as tops
for all lawmakers. That pension is based on his salary with the
Chicago Board of Education combined with his legislative pension.
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