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Iraq War Costs Illinois More than $28 Billion So Far

Iraq War Costs Illinois More than $28 Billion So Far

Poposed Spending Coul Add More Than $7 Billion More

anonymous – May 15, 2008 – 1:20pm
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Illinois Second Worst State for Racial Disparity in Drug Law Enforcement

It's embarrassing. It's damning. It's the reality that many of our citizens face, in Illinois and in Champaign County. Yet it's the one place where conservatives refuse to confront the harsh judgment that these damning statistics on outcomes that indict a failed, corrupt, and ineffective public policy.

anonymous – May 6, 2008 – 7:01pm
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Pardon of The Haymarket Martyrs (updated 2008)


John Peter AltgeldIn May of 1893, John Peter Altgeld addressed the graduating seniors at the University of Illinois: "Let sunlight into dark places and the poisons collected there disappear...

roknich – April 29, 2008 – 10:33am
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Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’

Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’
By ADAM LIPTAK

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

anonymous – April 23, 2008 – 8:08am
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Medical marijuana bill could help sick patients in Illinois

Medical marijuana bill could help sick patients in Illinois

by Town Travis
Apr 16, 2008

anonymous – April 18, 2008 – 7:20am
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Democrats Aiming to Kill democracy in Illinois

via email:

From those great folks who brought us Blagojevich...

Apparently our use of the township advisory referenda has attracted the attention of the Illinois General Assembly, and they have decided that this embarrassing expression of popular opinion has to be put down.

anonymous – April 12, 2008 – 9:56pm
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Sunlight Invites Collaboration on New Transparency Bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2008
2:20 PM

anonymous – March 31, 2008 – 6:11pm
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Time to Lobby in Support of Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis in Illinois

Marijuana Policy Project
anonymous – March 20, 2008 – 8:04am
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Let’s Talk About Marijuana

Let’s Talk About Marijuana
by Kathleen Taylor

A college student loses his financial aid because of a youthful indiscretion. A woman coping with the ravages of ovarian cancer lives in fear of being arrested for using what best eases her suffering. Across town, a front door bursts open and police rush in to handcuff a man relaxing in his living room.

anonymous – March 18, 2008 – 5:41pm
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Prisoners of Sentencing Politics

The United States is the world’s leading prison state.

Prisoners of Sentencing Politics
by Derrick Z. Jackson

With odious sanctimony, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released the annual State Department human rights report. She praised people around the world who work “to hold their leaders accountable and to achieve equal justice under the law.”

anonymous – March 15, 2008 – 10:13pm
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