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January
2005
Planning for Illinois Future:
Why can't politicians behave like the work-for-tomorrow ant instead of the live-in-the-moment grasshopper?
December
2004
Postmodern past:
In the new millennium, historical interpreters search for new ways to reach a point-and-click generation
November
2004
Hard times:
When the economy takes a dive, smaller towns take a bigger hit.
October
2004
Vote 2004
Building Blocs:
Successful political campaigns nail down the bases, then stack up interest groups. But sometimes this construction is a matter of chance
September 2004
Under lock and key: Gun control is a loaded issue this campaign season and many politicians are aiming to keep it out of reach
July/August 2004
Preservation arts:
Photographers capture natural Illinois
June 2004
Labor friendly:
The governor is good to workers. Unless he is 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 population
February
2004
The economy:
Some companies are using red ink to rewrite worker benefits
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Public work, private gain by Pat Guinane
The governor hired consultants to do what state workers could do. The private sector might be better, but it's hard to tell. So far, taxpayer aren't seeing much more than the price tag.
Wal-Martized by Stephanie Zimmermann
The mega retailer has changed the American way of doing business along with the face of Main Street U.S.A.
ESSAY
Save the golden goose
by Ronald Spahr
One way to reduce outsourcing of American jobs is to revise the nation's tax policies.
EXCERPTS
The real jobs problem by Robert B. Reich
Globalization and technological change are driving a widening divergence in wages, wealth and economic opportunity.
Brain drain by Chris Wetterich
State agencies lose more than staff size when veteran employees are cut from the payroll.
ESSAY
Lincoln's sign by Allen C. Guelzo
The Great Emancipator subscribed to no specific creed but came to believe a divine purpose called him to end slavery.
EDITOR'S
NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
The working poor are invisible
though we encounter them every day
STATE
OF THE STATE by Pat Guinane
State trade office plays matchmaker as Quincy courts China
BRIEFLY
CIVIL RIGHTS
Students' film helped spur long-delayed justice
LEGI CHECKLIST
Gay rights, judicial subcircuits, supplemental spending
Foreign trad offices escape budget ax
CANAL BOATS RETURN
LaSalle to offer rides on I & M Canal
REPORTS
Managing freight traffic, Substaining water sources
OUTDOORS WOMEN
COURT RULING
Healthcare for children
PRESSBOX
PEOPLE
State GOP names chair
Births: Attorney Lisa Madigan gave birth to a daughter
Obits: William C. Bill Harris, James Forman
Appointments: A. J. Wilhelmi, Lawrence Walsh, Tony Rossi, Julie Curry, Amy Bliefnick
ENDS
AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III
Illinois House leaders plan regional budget hearings to gather citizen input
ILLINOIS ISSUES 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Retrospectives
Three decades of public affairs journalism
PART 1: Welfare reform, Tax caps, and Capital punishment
PART 2: Patronage rulings, Cutback Amendment, Judicial subdistricts
PART 3: Energy resources, Water commerce, Economic subsidies
PART 4: Editorial cartoons, Public art, Political fiction, Classic architecture, Web literature
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