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* 38,752 residents living in poverty

* Daley wants to talk school cash before Wrigley sale

* NIU shooter’s gun card details released

* Congressman Kirk’s challenger reports $745,000 on hand

* GOP congressional candidate Steve Greenberg’s campaign fund down to $5,035 in 8th District

* Bean’s at top of fundraising list

* Schock and Halvorson ahead in money race for Congress

* Blagojevich says he will seek money to boost campus security

Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday he would ask legislators for $25 million to help colleges bolster security, a job the state’s public universities estimated would cost $41 million, according to a state task force.

* Cop with most DUI arrests charged with misconduct, other felonies

* The sort-of-getting-tougher approach, part two

“Clearly, anyone who wants to ban plastic [bags] or charge another tax would be more interested in seeing people’s grocery prices go up than we are,” he says. “Everybody wants everything, but nobody wants to pay anything. Well, we’re not going to try to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes.”

* Relocating the Chicago Children’s Museum

* Governor’s plan could cost Mattoon soccer field funds

* Chief of new Illinois Power Agency named; role of buying, selling electricity as yet undefined

* ‘Desperate times … desperate measures‘

* Recall: Tool of Accountability or “an Affront to Representative Democracy”?

* Quinn stumps for recall amendment

“My job is not to be a cheerleader for the governor but rather a watchdog for the public,” Quinn said. “And I see recall as the ultimate power the public needs to straighten things out when they really get out of hand.”

* Ken Gray knew how to help Southern Illinois

posted by Kevin Fanning
Wednesday, Apr 16, 08 @ 6:38 am

Comments

Who says we’re a democracy? Isn’t America a Republic?

Comment by Levois Wednesday, Apr 16, 08 @ 1:47 pm
Ken Gray

25 congressional seats. In my lifetime, IL has gone from 25 -> 18 (soon). And people wonder why I think we need LESS immigration.

Comment by Pat collins Wednesday, Apr 16, 08 @ 2:25 pm