Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Feds recast FutureGen's future

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FutureGen isn’t dead, yet . But it’s dead as we know it. The 13 energy companies that formed the FutureGen Alliance and selected Mattoon as...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Energy bust

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It very well could be too good to be true for Mattoon and the state, which lost federal support of the groundbreaking FutureGen coal power ...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Update on Blagojevich's health care lawsuit

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Don’t expect to find out whether Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s health care expansion plans are ruled unconstitutional until at least next month. Af...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The harsh truth

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By Patrick O’Brien The first round of students affected by the state’s Truth-in-Tuition law could have sticker shock when they open their b...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

"We are so done," for now

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Those were the words of Rep. Julie Hamos, the Evanston Democrat in charge of months of mass transit negotiations. Mass transit riders and wo...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Let's hope it's not a lemon

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By Patrick O’Brien and Bethany Jaeger Correction I mistakenly labeled Democratic Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi as a Republican. My apologies. Sen. Wilh...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Mass transit stalls on the tracks

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by Bethany Jaeger and Patrick O'Brien It felt more like the end of a legislative session than it did the first day of a new spring sessi...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Transit on the move

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By Patrick O’Brien and Bethany Jaeger Editor’s note: Welcome Patrick O’Brien, our new Public Affairs Reporting intern from the University of...
Friday, January 04, 2008

State representative will serve in Iraq

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In two to three weeks, Rep. Jim Watson, a Jacksonville Republican, will put his legislative duties on hold to serve in Iraq. He’ll deploy ab...

The yo-yo BIMP

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Illinois school districts have waited 60 days for the governor’s action on one particular measure because it would allow them to collect ab...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Old problems carry over into New Year

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With 18 days left for the state to avert service cuts of Chicago area mass transit, the Illinois General Assembly becomes a playground for p...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

“Promises with a price”

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We knew it was bad, but we have one more study that says it’s really bad. The Pew Center on the States published a report comparing all 50 ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Mattoon wins: Too good to be true?

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The energy industry selected Mattoon in east Central Illinois to host the more than $1 billion project billed as the “world’s first near-ze...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Back and forth

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As frustration over the continued tit-for-tat between the governor and the speaker festers, the public has the added question of whether the...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Inner circle

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A federal investigation stung another member of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s inner circle without mentioning the governor. Christopher Kelly, the ...

Pay now or later?

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State Comptroller Dan Hynes wrote a letter to the editor that published in Springfield’s State Journal-Register that continues his effort ...
Monday, December 10, 2007

The chips may fall, but ...

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The Illinois House will convene in Springfield next Monday to debate a major gaming proposal announced in Chicago this morning. Two new cas...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Sacrifices

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Flags will be at half-staff today, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It always hits home. I spent more than a year of my u...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

The 12th month

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The Illinois House is working on a plan to expand gaming as a way to pay for a long-awaited infrastructure projects around the state. That p...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

No action sets the stage for another show

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Compromise would be a welcomed word during this 6th month of overtime session, but Wednesday’s special session — the 17th called by Gov. Rod...