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As I grow older, I reflect more on the past and worry more about the future, not just for myself but for my grandchildren, whose ages range from 2 months…
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Although the federal stimulus package is increasingly unpopular among the American public, there’s little doubt that Illinois’ top Democrats support it.…
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Years ago, a group of legislative back-benchers dubbed themselves “The Mushroom Caucus.” The moniker was apt, they explained, because leadership “keeps us…
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Illinois faces its worst fiscal crisis in eight decades, a daunting challenge for the state’s purported leaders. So how have they responded?In a word,…
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Illinois made the Top 10 last month.Not Bruce Weber’s Fighting Illini, a disappointing 4-2 and unranked through the first six games of the young…
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“Wait ’til next year,’’ for more than a century the lament of long-suffering fans of the Chicago Cubs, aptly describes the approach Illinois leaders are…
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The economic implosion over the last 20 months caught many of us by surprise. We had confidently ridden the stock market’s ascent to the heady all-time…
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"Run government like a business." We've all heard the familiar refrain, typically as a pledge from a political candidate or as a demand from a government…
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The 6,300 citizens of Round Lake Park, a working class village near the Wisconsin border in far northern Lake County, have been affected by the recent…
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Editor's Notebook: Economic incentives cost but few officials can afford to turn their backs on jobsThe late state Sen. Aldo DeAngelis may have put the matter most succinctly. In the summer of 1989, he was listening none-too-patiently to criticism of the…