Illinois Newspapers Call For An End To The State’s Budget Stalemate
Illinois Newspapers Call For An End To The State’s Budget Stalemate
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Today, about a dozen Illinois newspapers published front-page editorials calling for legislators to resolve the year-long budget stalemate. Tomorrow, the state will have been without a budget for a whole year, causing funding crises for small businesses, state colleges and universities and state agencies.
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Angie Muhs, executive editor of The State Journal-Register in Springfield, about the newspapers’ coordinated editorials.
Read the State Journal-Register’s editorial
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Angie Muhs, executive editor of The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois. She tweets @amuhs.
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