Across the state, thousands of newspaper subscribers were met with a single word as the headline on the front page Wednesday: "Enough."
The State Journal-Registerof Springfield coordinated the effort to devote the entire front page to an editorial - a decision that hasn't happened at the paper in decades, if ever. Other papers published by GateHouse Media did the same, and even papers with other publishers took the directive, such as theChicago Sun-Times.
You can read the editorial online, here. We spoke with Angie Muhs, executive editor of The SJ-R, to learn more about the decision and the message she hopes it sends to voters and lawmakers:
