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State Week: Ethics Critiques, Corruption Pleadings, And Iowa On The Ropes

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Brian Mackey
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NPR Illinois

A former legislative ethics watchdog calls out the Ethics Commission, former state Rep. Luis Arroyo pleads not guilty (but is thought to be cooperating with the feds), and Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants Illinois to supplant Iowa and New Hampshire at the front of the presidential primaries.

Brian Mackey hosts with regular panelist Charlie Wheeler and guest Dan Petrella of the Chicago Tribune. Sean Crawford is on assignment.

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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