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Below are the latest stories on the pension issue in Illinois.

State Week: 2 Power Plants, 1 Rash Veto, And 0 Budgets For The New Year

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Brian Mackey
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Nuclear plant workers in Clinton and Quad Cities — not to mention Exelon and ComEd shareholders — got a helping hand from Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois General Assembly. But there was no such luck for the many social service providers, university students and countless others hoping for Illinois' first full budget in a year-and-a-half.

Sean Crawford hosts with regular panelists Charlie Wheeler and Brian Mackey, and guest Dan Petrella of Lee Enterprises, which publishes the (Decatur) Herald & Review, The (Bloomington) Pantagraph, The Southern Illinoisan, and the Quad City Times.

Brian Mackey hosts The 21st Show and formerly reported on state government.
The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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