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States call President George W. Bush’s Medicaid plan the carrot-and-stick approach to state-federal relations. They could take the carrot, but they dread…
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Lawmakers resurrected a classic phrase to express their wonderment over Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s approach to dealing with the ailing state budget: Where’s…
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The video poker machines found in bars around Illinois are perfectly legal. What’s not is the widespread practice of gambling on those games.So when bar…
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Judging Lincoln Frank J. Williams, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002 All the Laws But One Civil Liberties in Wartime William H. Rehnquist, Vintage…
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Birds of a feather flock together. This adage rings true for businesses in city centers. But it’s not necessarily the case in rural areas, where companies…
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Rod Blagojevich spent last year promising pretty much everything to everybody. So when he’s sworn in this month as Illinois’ chief executive, there’s no…
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The death penalty reform torch passed from Gov. George Ryan to Gov.-elect Rod Blagojevich early last month during a joint appearance outside the executive…
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Edward Spreitzer doesn’t contest the guilty verdict against him. Nor does he dispute the horrid nature of the murder that landed him on Death Row. He…
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Jim Ryan is in fight mode. He wants to govern the fifth-largest state in the nation, so that’s to be expected. What’s surprising is that he’s playing…
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Politics begins and ends on the streets. It’s where party functionaries and public officials organize the votes that put them into power, and where they…