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PAST ISSUES

March 2004
Global classroom:
Educators search for new ways to teach Illinois' increasingly diverse school poplulation
February 2004
The economy:
Some companies are using red ink to rewrite worker benefits
January 2004
How's he governing? At the end of the first quarter he's got game
December 2003 Perspectives:
Do mass markets diminish choices in art and culture?
November 2003
Capitol Action:
Much is at stake as lawmakers head into veto session
October 2003
Two new directors tackle two tough agencies:
Bryan Samuels director of Children and Family Services and Roger Walker Director of Corrections
September 2003
A cop's prosecutor:
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald takes crime fighting personally

June 2003
Getting there:
Finding the cash to go to college is Turning out to be almost as tough as attending the classes

May 2003
Crunch time:
Do you know where your lawmakers are?

April 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.

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FEATURES

Deadly migration by Anne Keegan
Chicago police are cracking down on drugs and murder. So gangs are following the dollar signs to suburbs and small towns.

Fired up by Dave McKinney
The Senate’s top Republican is passionate about setting the governor straight.

Code blue by Bethany Carson
Lawmakers call for an emergency checkup of Illinois’ medical liability law.

A case study by Kevin McDermott
Madison County is ground zero in the medical liability controversy.

Federal roadblock by Dori Meinert
Illinois’ transportation wish list is trapped in congressional gridlock.

POSTCARDS

Notes from Illinois
A young pianist comes out of Africa
by Peg Kowalczyk
Otters: Two thrive in a tank at the bank by Marcia Frellick

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long

Lawmakers will want to slip quietly past controversy this spring

BRIEFLY

  • LEGI CHECKLIST
  • Governor‘s budget plan would stunt ag research projects
  • States consider privatizing higher ed
  • From farmland to backwater lakes and marshes
  • Security shuffle
  • Open space advocates don’t want a “holiday”
  • Illinois joins states in standards for ESL
  • New state lab verifies seeds’ genetic makeup
  • UPDATES

PEOPLE

  • Q&A: Timothy Martin
  • Audit questions payments to Schiller

ENDS AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III

The measure to ban discrimination against gays is a simple matter of justice

 

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