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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 2003
Page
1
Column notes SARS affects Carbondale students including Daphne Ponce and Alejandra Ponce de Leon who cannot take a planned school trip to China. Weather page and various city notices follow with forecasts and local features. The Southern Illinoisan lists weather for today and weekend with temperatures and winds.
Iraqi crowds celebrate Saddam Hussein's toppled statue with slippers and boxes as U S Marines guard the scene. Amid cheers and flags, some gunfire erupts causing deaths. residents cheer, cry, and hope for a new life as U S forces move through central Baghdad.
Governor Rod Blagojevich proposed a 52 billion budget relying on one time receipts and new riverboat gambling taxes plus business fees. The plan raises education and health care funding while cutting university money and uses 2.7 billion in one time revenues to cover spending. Senate critics warn of a reckoning when one time money runs out.
Governor Blagojevich proposed a V 209 million increase in the K 12 education budget for the current year aiming to lift spending in poorer districts and expand preschool funding. State Board of Education official Robert Schiller noted the plan raises total funding but may not reach all districts, with the poorest districts receiving the largest gains and some underfunded schools getting less. See pages 10A.
Governor Blagojevich unveils a 170 million reduction to university operating budgets as part of a 3.2 percent state general fund increase. He asserts campuses will cut administration while preserving classroom instruction and financial aid.
In his budget speech Gov. Rod Blagojevich says gambling will not expand in Illinois but the sale of the 10th gaming license could raise about 350 million. Riverboat casinos would pay higher entrance fees and increased taxes to generate roughly 550 million for the state.
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