Illinois Issues
July 1981 VOL. VII, NO. 7
ILLINOIS ISSUES is published by Sangamon State University. The magazine's board is appointed by the presidents of Sangamon State University and the University of Illinois. In addition to subscription income the magazine is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University, and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of either university, the Ford Foundation or other donors.
Publisher: J. Michael Lennon (on leave)
Editor and Acting Publisher: Caroline Gherardini
Fulfillment and Advertising manager: Elizabeth A. Curl
Circulation director: John E. Cockrell
Editor emeritus: William L. Day
Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle, Larry Smith
Richard J. Shereikis
Assistant Editor: John G. Martin
Legislative correspondent: Diane Ross, Shelley Davis
Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood,
Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer,
Milton Rakove, Robert Mackay
Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt,
Artist: Ed Dyson
Business staff: Bonnie S. Roberts
Student staff: Patricia Hadsall
The Board
Chairman: Samuel K. Gove, director, Institute
of Government and Public Affairs, University
of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: James R. Kackley, partner
Arthur Anderson & Co., Chicago
William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield
Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan
Institute, University of Chicago
David Kenney, director, Illinois Department
of Conservation, Springfield
Louis H. Masotti, professor of political science and urban
affairs, Northwestern University,
Evanston
Odas Nicholson, Judge, Cook County Circuit Court
James D. Nowlan, Director, public administration program
Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana
James T. Otis, lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, professor of journalism,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Betsy Plank, assistant vice president, Illinois
Bell Telephone Co., Chicago
Gerald H. Pugh, vice president and director of
government relations, Combined Insurance
Company of America, Chicago
Carl Shier, international representative, Region
4, United Auto Workers
Honorable William G. Stratton, vice president,
Canteen Corporation, Chicago
Thomas F. Roeser, Vice President-government relations
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago
James M. Wall, editor, Christian Century,
Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, lawyer, Chicago
James C. Worthy, professor of management.
Northwestern University
J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member
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Contents
4Speaker George Ryan: Tough and powerful with a tendency to be abrasive
By Shelley Davis
6Senate President Phil Rock: A 'little less than even-handed' and a desire to be governor
By Shelley Davis
8Thompsons budget cut #2 on may 11th
By Diane Ross
9Fahner backs revisions in open meetings law
By Diane Ross
19HUMANITIES ESSAYS A poem: To Prisoners
By Gwendolyn Brooks
2 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Shelley Davis
The RTA: finding a coalition
17 SCIENCE By Julie A. Dutton
The trouble with sludge
23 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
The Feud over rules in the House
35 POLITICS By Robert Kieckhefer
Another test of coattails in 1982?
36 CHICAGO By Milton Rakove
The schools: Who shall lead them?
37 WASHINGTON By Robert Mackay
Frustration and fulfillment on Capitol Hill for Illinois' freshmen
38 THE ROSTRUM By Michael J. Howlett and WIllian H. Perkins
Wanted: the rapprochement of business and government
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LETTERS_______9
SELECTED STATE REPORT_______18
BILL SUMMARIES___________24
Elementary and secondary Education/ State Pay Raises/ Pension Raises and Policy/ Motor Vehicles/ State Government
EXECUTIVE REPORT___________30
Unemployment update: time for a turnaround?
STATE STIX_______31
ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS_______31
JUDICIAL RULINGS__________32
The public interest and the empeloyers' right to fire/ Comparative negligence and contributing negligence. Home rule nd landlord-tenant rights/ Construction company found negligent under Road Injuries construction act
NAMES_______33
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