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Highs and Lows in Mid-Summer Headlines
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Journalist Esther Cepeda |
During July we saw budget battles in Springfield and pink slips at City Hall. The garbage piled up in Indiana and beer steins just clinked at the White House. Still the biggest and most troubling headlines came from six-feet-under. Esther Cepeda of the 600 words blog, Phil Kadner, a columnist for The Southtown Star, and Ramsin Canon, a political writer for Gapers Block, debate what stood out and what should have stood out.
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Richard Lorenc, Chicago // Saturday, August 01, 2009 @ 11:11 AM
I wish the next time this panel is held there are journalists available to speak better to the reason why our state has found itself in such a bad situation. Our politicians have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. State spending has increased 45% per capita from 1998-2008.
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Ramsin, Noble Square / Chicago // Saturday, August 01, 2009 @ 12:47 PM
Richard, there was no way to cut out of this deficit. Not only this, but no institution offered a road map to what exactly should be cut to close the gap.
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