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Day three of the SJ-R editorial board's eight-day special report Sounding the Alarm looks at the need to overhaul funding of public education in Illinois

Sounding the Alarm: Illinois must overhaul education funding formula Editor's note: Illinois is the only state in America without a budget, a failure that digs it deeper into debt each day. But the lack of a budget is not

Day Two of the SJ-R editorial page's eight-day special report Sounding the Alarm looks at the need for pension reform - and it doesn't start with changing benefits.

Sounding the Alarm: Pension reform needs to focus on refinancing debt Editor's note: Illinois is the only state in America without a budget, a failure that digs it deeper into debt each day. But the lack of a budget is not

ICYMI: Day one of the SJ-R's editorial page eight-day special report Sounding the Alarm compared Illinois to other Midwest states in various areas to see how the Land of Lincoln stacks up. Visit http://tinyurl.com/las7q7s to explore this graphic in more detail.

And Gov. Bruce Rauner has a message for Senate President John Cullerton

Rauner to Cullerton: Don't buckle under Madigan's pressure; let's make a deal Everyone seems to have a powerful lobbyist in Springfield but you, the taxpayers. That's why you elected me. I'm here to fight for you and stop career

ICYMI: Senate President John Cullerton has a message for Gov. Bruce Rauner

Cullerton to Rauner: Take the deal, save the state before it’s too late As you read this, it’s May 15, which leaves 16 days until the General Assembly’s constitutional deadline for action.Illinois hasn’t

SJ-R Edit Board: It’s worth taking a moment to point out the millions that will be spent in an election that’s still 18 months away will buy a whole of talk — talk likely to involve a lot of nasty finger-pointing that will do nothing to fix our broken state.

Our View: Putting election spending into perspective There is no disputing that residents — or candidates themselves — have the right to give money to politicians they feel can make a

Bernie also takes a look at where some campaign war chests stand for congressional candidates

Bernard Schoenburg: Rodney Davis questions payments to Jesse Jackson Jr. U.S. Rep. RODNEY DAVIS, R-Taylorville, is questioning why former U.S. Rep. JESSE JACKSON JR., D-Chicago, who served time in prison for personal use of

Our View: The injustice of the lawmaker pay ruling As Illinois state lawmakers go about spending their paychecks, we hope they stop for a minute to think about who isn't getting paid. Social service

Who else is tired of this?

Thumbs Down: To the never-ending Mendoza-Rauner blame game Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic Comptroller Susana Mendoza are taking the only sport that matters in Illinois politics — scoring

We hope they're still committed to getting a budget passed

Our View: Illinois senators, please don’t give up If it were up to us, we probably would not have called the “grand bargain” introduced in the Illinois Senate “grand” or a

Bernard Schoenburg: Activist Proft's publications raise vote fraud issue Political activist, talk-show host and now publisher DAN PROFT has been using some of his publications to display a story that talks about potential voter