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Upcoming Issues

Educator Letters (issue subjects)

January 2010

• Oh, Oprah
  The benefits Chicago has reaped as home base to the Oprah Winfrey Show for the past 24 years.
• All about the budget
  The upcoming legislative session promises to have a central theme.
• The governor’s race
  Candidates line up for state government’s highest office.

October 2009

• Jerry Stermer, Gov. Quinn’s Chief of Staff
• Nonprofit organizations choose collaboration over competition
• Illinois’s budget relies on delaying payment to some medical providers
• Columns:
  • Other state have budget issues, too
  • Lawmakers “wait ‘til Next Year.”
  • Effect of budget cuts

September 2009

• No Child Left Behind
• Columns:
  • Lawmakers Need to Profile Some Courage
  • Illinois’ Budget Out-of-Whack
  • Prison System Problems Evident

July/August (Environment Issue)

• Wind Power in Illinois
• Cleaning Up the State’s Rivers
• Illinois Power Agency

October 2008 – June 2009

June

• Overview of the nation’s economic nightmare
• Illinois nonprofits provide human services, support education and arts
• Tracking students from preschool through career

May

• Upcoming U.S. Census
• Budget deficit/seeking New Revenue Sources

April

• Use of Federal Stimulus Money
• Telling Taxpayers the Truth (commentary)

March

• Illinoisans’ effect on federal government in the Obama administration
• Homelessness among 18 to 24 year-olds

February

• What Made Lincoln, Lincoln? (essay)
• Profile of new governor Pat Quinn

January

• Award-winning overview of Ill. Politics: Obama’s victory/Blagojevich’s arrest
• What’s happening to newspapers?

December (Arts Issue – online only)

• Current art program funding
• New Deal art programs during the Great Depression
• Black Arts Movement
• Chicago Poets
• Lincoln Portraiture
• Archeological Treasures from Native Groups in Illinois
• Newberry Library Exhibit
• Review of November 2008 Election Results and the Obama Effect
• Forward Look at Politics in 2009

November

• Chicago’s Bid for the 2016 Olympics
• Power of Senate Majority Leader

October

• Election 2008 Activities for the Classroom
• Negative Campaigning