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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 2003
Page
1
A state audit concludes an SIUE employee opened an unauthorized bank account. The report on Page 3A notes governance lapses and potential internal control weaknesses.
Governor Rod Blagojevich plans a budget proposal to erase nearly five billion in cuts by raising fees delaying prison openings and selling state property including the James R. Thompson Center. The plan also targets higher education funding more federal Medicaid dollars and higher fines for polluters. Senate leaders say the speech may be less painful than anticipated.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich will speak at noon before a joint General Assembly session. The address airs on WSIU channels and radio, with a 10 30 p m replay. He pledges no general tax hikes or program cuts in health education or public safety. The plan centers on refinancing pension debt via a bond issue up to 10 billion dollars.
U S Marines claim a large eastern Baghdad sector and a second city airport as armor repels a counterattack and tightens grip on the capital. President Bush says Saddam Hussein's hold weakens as U S officials report still-operating Republican Guard elements and possible internal commands.
Marlow Mueller, aboard the USS Boxer in the Arabian Sea during Operation Iraqi Freedom, led a pledge drive among shipmates to support the Multiple Sclerosis Society. He has raised about $150 for the Bi County Babes and Buddies MS Walk at Millstadt City Park, founded by his aunt Gretchen Steele and local health department staff. Steele notes several local MS cases among about 1,000 residents.
Health care workers at eight Illinois Department of Corrections facilities could begin picketing as early as next week due to stalled contract talks with the private vendor that employs them. The potential strike would affect workers at Menard, Pinckneyville, Dixon and Lawrence Correctional Centers and juvenile facilities in St. Charles, Chicago, Joliet, and Warrenville. See strike on page 2A.
About 140 union health care workers at eight Illinois prisons could strike as soon as Monday, including 50 at Pinckneyville and Menard. Nurses, social workers and other roles would be affected. facilities span Menard and Pinckneyville in southern Illinois, Lawrence in Lawrenceville, Dixon, and juvenile centers in St. Charles, Chicago, Joliet and Warrenville.
Workers from the Southern Seven Health Department staged an informational picket Tuesday to protest what they call an administration refusal to agree to fair terms. Administrators say their last and final offer is fair given state financial straits. Southern Seven serves Alexander, Johnson, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and Union counties. Sixty-eight members of AFSCME Council 31 are represented.
Union members from the Southern Seven Health Department, about 58 employees including clerks nurses and environmental health workers, seek fair terms in a new contract. Pay for the bargaining unit starts around 10000 to 11000 dollars according to Local 947 President Diane Dale. See picket on page 2A.
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