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Nuance can be everything in lawmaking. That’s certainly the case for federal welfare reform, which is still on the negotiating table. Five years after it…
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The Power of the Soybean: The diesel engine is most often powered by petroleum. But that’s changing.Rudolf Diesel might be amazed at all the hoopla. When the late German engineer demonstrated his new high-compression engine at the 1900 World’s Fair, he…
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Joe House is out the door by 3 a.m. in the winter months. He departs each morning to patrol some 30 farms around Princeville, his hometown just north of…
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Matthew Bettenhausen wears lots of hats, all of them tall. Increasingly, this top adviser to Gov. George Ryan is a central figure in some of the state’s…
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There’s the ideal. There’s reality. Then there’s politics.When Gov. George Ryan two years ago put a hold on Illinois executions and formed a commission to…
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Delbert Marion feels as though he’s in the bull’s-eye. East St. Louis, where he’s the police chief, is at the center of the state’s most densely populated…
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There’s always the old-fashioned way. But that takes longer and isn’t as efficient. And lives could be at risk.These days, police officers travel with…
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NeoPharm Inc. has big plans for fighting cancer. And some representatives of this state’s biotechnology community have high hopes for NeoPharm. In fact,…
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Roosevelt Banister has his hands full. As program director for New Age Services Corp., a methadone provider on Chicago’s West Side, he practically has…
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Daniel Parrilli created his own little business. He even created the customers.Parrilli applied for credit cards in fictitious names. Then he set up a…