Category: Future of News

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• Efforts to abolish the century-old Illinois General Assembly scholarship program have proven unsuccessful in the past, but outside of eliminating it altogether, higher education and financial aid…

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• Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) plans to reform or possibly abolish the General Assembly scholarship program when the legislature returns to Springfield in January. “We don’t…

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• The millions of dollars in scholarships Illinois lawmakers hand out each year to high school graduates in their districts could be better spent on students who couldn’t otherwise afford to go to…

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU5LonkXbCE

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• Our recent hits, where reporters used social network tools like WindyCitizen to announce stories.

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• This is why we need a “cultural environmental” movement and a rebalancing of individual rights in the face of corporate economic power.

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• Climate change is latest problem that’s admitted but ignored – washingtonpost.com

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• Someone has to pay for the millions of dollars in scholarships state legislators dole out each year – and that ends up being the rest of the students who attend Illinois’ public universities. For…

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• Gretchen Watson got an undergraduate degree and her master’s, too, thanks to the Illinois General Assembly scholarship program. For seven years, Watson, now an elementary school teacher, didn’t have…

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