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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.
More past issues
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April 2004
CURRENT ISSUE
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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