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October 2006
Energy: Alternative sources are subject to prevailing political winds
September 2006
Left behind: Young black and male
July/August 2006
Renewal: Disturbed land can return to its natural state and we can learn from the transformation
June 2006
Fallout: States face a fraying lifeline
May 2006
Higher and higher:
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Whose rights?
No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court reacts to Roe, other jurisdictions have reframed the abortion debate to focus on the status of the fetus.
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Over the top: Illinoisans head the national debate over money and politics
February 2006
Rating game: You got trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with V for video toys
January 2006
Beginnings: Another political season is on the horizon
December 2005
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What's in store for public art?
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Uncle Sam's pocket: Where there's federal cash the states choose to follow
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November 2006 CURRENT ISSUE • SUBSCRIBE TO ILLINOIS ISSUES
2006 BILL MILLER PUBLIC AFFAIRS REPORTING
HALL OF FAME — November 13, 2006
FEATURES
Who would want to run?
by Christopher Z. Mooney
Has elected office become so onerous that it threatens the quality of American governance by biasing the people willing to serve? The answers are not reassuring.
Who are the talking heads?
by Bethany Carson
Political scientists say what journalists can't or won't. In the process, they tell the public why Illinois politics matter.
Toxic terrorism
by Daniel C. Vock
Federal scrutiny will pick up at the nation's chemical plants, including hundreds in Illinois. But critics argue that's not enough.
Institutional amnesia by James Krohe Jr.
Official memory keepers might help state agencies learn from past mistakes.
GUEST ESSAY
The hitch in the plan by Alan Mammoser
A new Chicago metropolitan planning agency is advisory only, making it no more powerful than its predecessors.
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK by Peggy Boyer Long
If this election got you down, there's always the next one
STATE OF THE STATE by Bethany Carson
Veto session could be the calm before the storm in the 2007 legislative forecast
BRIEFLY
Southern Illinois home site turns out to have belonged to St. Louis founder
Super sniffer
ELECTRIC DEBATE
Politics could blunt 2007 energy rate hikes
Prosecutors indict governor's adviser
Governor defies drug importation laws
Politics, money and ethics cause concern
PARENTAL NOTICE
Court's move brings back decade-old law
NARRATIVES
Through a Native American's eyes
From the mouths of homeless kids
BOOKSHELF
Chicago: its plan, its history, its geography
Illinoisan leads Abe's birthday bash
Turow to talk at longer state book fair
UPDATES
Gov. Rod Blagojevich, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama
PEOPLE
A WOMAN OF FIRSTS
Sandra Day O'Connor
Veteran historian joins Lincoln library, museum
STATE JOBS OFFICIAL RESIGNS
John Gianulis
LATINO SENATE LEADER TO TAKE
CITY CLERK JOB
Miguel del Valle
UPDATE
Prosecutor named and prisoner gets more time
OBIT
Seymour Simon
BIG PEOPLE ON CAMPUS
Ron Michaelson, Larry Matejka, Louis Hencken, Jennifer Richeson
ENDS AND MEANS by Charles N. Wheeler III
Perhaps there's perverse pride in topping accounts of corruption elsewhere
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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