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	<title>Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar</title>
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		<title>Question of the day</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/question-of-the-day-1390/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* The House&#8217;s budget proposal cuts education by well over $200 million. Here are a few of the cuts&#8230;
* Early childhood education - $25 million
* General State Aid - $211 million
* Free breakfasts and lunch - $12 million
The Ounce of Prevention Fund claims that the cuts in early childhood education would result in &#8220;fewer than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*** UPDATED ***  THIS JUST IN&#8230; Harriman drops out of congressional race&#8230;  Costello, Sr. takes himself out of contention&#8230; Plummer responds</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/this-just-in-harriman-drops-out-of-congressional-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* 12:28 pm -  Democratic candidate Brad Harriman&#8217;s campaign has just confirmed that he has dropped out of the 12th Congressional District race against Republican Jason Plummer.
* 12:30 - And here&#8217;s the press release&#8230;
&#8220;Today, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I am ending my campaign after consultation with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old man Ricketts has a new problem</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/old-man-ricketts-has-a-new-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Cub family patriarch Joe Ricketts&#8217; PR problems continue.  New York Times&#8230;
[Ricketts] is involved in another effort slated for this summer, a documentary film based on a widely criticized book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” by Dinesh D’Souza, which asserts that Mr. Obama is carrying out the “anticolonial” agenda of his Kenyan father.
Mr. Ricketts’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Kirk concealed campaign payments to wife, girlfriend</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/report-kirk-concealed-campaign-payments-to-wife-girlfriend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Oy&#8230;
Soon after Mark Kirk&#8217;s ex-wife announced she would no longer support his 2010 run for the U.S. Senate, he brought her onto his campaign team, then quietly paid her after his victory.
But Kimberly Vertolli, a lawyer who received $40,000 from the campaign, again is at odds with her ex-husband, filing a complaint with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SB: 1849 A Revenue and Jobs Solution</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/sb-1849-a-revenue-and-jobs-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Advertising Department</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
	<category>Advertising</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is a paid advertisement.]
Last week the Illinois House of Representatives took a stand for bringing jobs and new revenue to Illinois, and we applaud their vote. Experts predict that SB 1849 will create more than 20,000 jobs and more than $200 million in new annual revenue at a time when our state desperately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major media pension coverage so far today</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/major-media-pension-coverage-so-far-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
	<category>YouTube</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Subscribers know a whole lot more about what&#8217;s going on with pension reform and what to expect, but let&#8217;s check the existing coverage as of this writing.  SJ-R&#8230;
Under the legislation, which would not apply to the state&#8217;s judges:
&#8211; Employees and retirees will be offered a choice between having access to a state health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s headline</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/todays-headline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 13:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* From NBC5&#8230;
Quinn Preps For Busy Week in Springfield
* And this is how he&#8217;s prepping, according to the station&#8230;
Ahead of a busy week in Springfield, Gov. Pat Quinn marched Monday in the Park Ridge Memorial Day Parade and headed off to Wrigley Field to continue honoring veterans.

So, a parade and a ballgame at a decrepit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polls: Schneider tied with Dold and Rahm&#8217;s on a roll</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/polls-schneider-tied-with-dold-and-rahms-on-a-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 13:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
	<category>Polls</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* A new poll conducted for Democrat Brad Schneider shows he is tied with Republican freshman incumbent Bob Dold in the 10th CD.  From the pollster&#8230;
Schneider is in a dead heat with Dold despite the fact that Dold has a greater than two-to-one name identification advantage (79% to 35%). 
Not only is Dold’s vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Shorts</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/morning-shorts-855/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 13:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Irwin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* House passes ban on cell calls near crash scenes
* Bill banning cell phones in emergency areas goes to Quinn
* Bill to help DNR headed to Quinn&#8217;s desk
* Committee votes to give up Peoria-area state park
* Talk of Banning Flavored Cigar Wraps 
* Plan prompted by Elgin school stabbing heads for House vote
* Proposal would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: *** UPDATED x2 ***   SUBSCRIBERS ONLY:  This just in&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/subscribers-only-this-just-in-85/</link>
		<comments>http://capitolfax.com/2012/05/29/subscribers-only-this-just-in-85/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 13:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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	<category>Updated Posts</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
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