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PAST ISSUES
July/August 2004
Preservation arts:
Photograpers capture natural Illinois
June 2004
Labor friendly:
The governor is good to workers. Unless he’s their boss.
May 2004
Latino power:
A rising population is pushing political change.
April
2004
Deadly migration:
Chicago police are cracking down on drugs and murder. So gangs
are following the dollar signs to suburbs and small towns.
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
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September 2004
CURRENT ISSUE
FEATURES
Under lock and key by Pat Guinane
Gun control is a loaded issue this campaign season and many politicians are aiming to keep it out of reach.
All eyes on the Fifth by Kevin McDermott
The debate over medical malpractice reforms has drawn national attention to Illinois’ lone Supreme Court race.
GUEST ESSAY
Back to the future by Royce A. Yeater
The push to replace old community schools with new buildings in more remote locales is outdated policy. The latest trend is renovation.
PERSPECTIVES
Education Finance 101
by Ralph Martire & Jeff Mays
Do we need to change the way schools are funded?
ILLINOIS ISSUES 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Retrospectives
Three decades of public affairs journalism
PART 1: Welfare reform, Tax caps, and Capital punishment
EDITOR'S
NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
This magazine has followed information
technology’s public evolution from the start
STATE
OF THE STATE by Pat Guinane
The gun-control stalemate persists
in Springfield though Democrats call the shots
BRIEFLY
- NEW AGRICULTURAL AGE: Future of farming in the hands of robots
- Governor can reshape state education board
- Governor can still appoint U of I trustees
- GLIMPSE OF RURAL LIFE: 19th century Buck
farm preserved
- ROAD DEBRIS:
Group promotes safety
- Governor’s action
- Legislative loose ends
- YES, THERE'S A STATE BUDGET:
Protracted dispute produced positives for prison workers, state colleges and the business community
PEOPLE
- EDUCATION'S REVOLVING DOOR: Robert Schiller, Daniel LaVista, Thomas Lamont, Vaughn Vandegrift, David Werner, James Stukel, Nancy Cantor, Richard Ringeisen
- At last, Republicans pick a Senate candidate
- Trading Lipinskis
- HONORS: Paul Simon, Abner Mikva, Dawn Clark Netsch, Cynthia Canary
- MANAGING THE MEDIA: Marybeth Johnson, Dave Blanchette, Mike Claffey, Tom Schafer, Tammy Leonard, Matt Vanover, Patti Thompson, Chris Herbert, Jeff Squibb, H.W. Devlin, Tom Green, Tracey Scruggs, Dede Short, Sergio Molina, Maggie Carson, Dennis McMurray, Anne Rowan, Joe Bauer, Carol Knowles, Tim Schweizer, Melaney Arnold, David Meadvin, Andrew Ross, Brendan Moore, Laura Hunter, Nicole Grady, Willy
Medina, Clare Thorpe, Mike Klemens, Geraldine Conrad, Barnaby Dinges, Julie Summers, Stephanie Gadlin, Anjali Julka, Patrick Reilly, Januari Smith, Emil Jones, Nikki Smith
- OBITS: John Corbally, Forest Etheredge
ENDS
AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III
Republican fortunes
have taken a real nosedive
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