
New State Budget Is Good News For Domestic Violence Agency
Courage Connection is rebuilding its staff, now that a new state budget has brought expectations that state funding will resume.
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Courage Connection is rebuilding its staff, now that a new state budget has brought expectations that state funding will resume.
Email, texts and social media may be the most common ways to send a message. But that’s often not the case for the millions of Americans with friends or family in prison. Cards and letters are the least expensive and most accessible way for many behind bars to keep in touch. Still, finding the right words to say is not always easy. One area company is creating cards to meet that need.
Passage of a new state budget in Springfield means it’s back to work for construction crews on several road projects in Illinois --- including the MCORE project in Champaign-Urbana’s Campustown.
Thurday's controversial Illinois House override vote that increased the state income tax rate was delayed by about two hours when the capitol building was put on lockdown, due to reports of a woman throwing or spilling an unknown substance near the governor’s office and other locations. Reporter Dusty Rhodes knows the woman, and spoke with a lobbyist who witnessed her detention.
On the 21st: The longest state budget standoff since the Great Depression ended yesterday. We heard reactions from lawmakers who voted yesterday, some of the people most affected by the budget standoff in health, education and business sectors, and spoke with former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar.
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