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Chris Mooney is Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. The following is an article he authored:Prisons…
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Services are pending for former west-central Illinois state lawmaker Mike Smith. Oak-Hines Funeral Home in Smith's hometown of Canton says the 48-year-old…
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Illinois has become a start-and-stop clean energy and environmental leader making great progress in some areas, but hitting too many self-imposed…
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For some Illinois lawmakers, casting votes on the issues of the day is just the beginning of a potentially lucrative climb up the financial ladder.After…
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Conventional wisdom would suggest that the first election following legislative redistricting would offer voters a wide array of choices, as veteran…
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A 16-year-old Rochester student tailed Gov. Rod Blagojevich with a video recorder as they walked into the State Fair last month. Surrounded by a group of…
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Illinois Republicans were in a bind. Their Senate candidate had dropped out of the race, and now the party was scrambling to find a replacement or face…
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Like Alice returning from Wonderland, Illinois legislators faced up to fiscal reality just in time for the state’s new budget year.Their wake-up call came…
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Stanley Weaver has seen plenty over the course of a long political career.When this Republican arrived in the General Assembly in 1969, some 400,000 young…
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Conversation with the Publisher: The legislature wraps up while others make case for civics trainingWe weren't alone in predicting that the big issues in this spring's legislative session might be rewriting telecommunications law, doling out education…