Illinois Faces 2.36 Billion Debt Burden Through 2001
Illinois taxpayers carry a 2.36 billion debt load through 2001 for general obligation bonds and revenue debt backed by the state. Debt service runs 154.4 million this year, less than 2 percent of a 10 billion fiscal 1976 budget, with potential for future increases as authorized bonds remain unsold.
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Roger Hughes
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois
General Assembly
Standard & Poor
Federal policies drain New York and other metro centers
Seymour Melman argues the federal government drains New York state and city of tax dollars while funding military priorities. He cites a multi year drain of 7.4 billion annually and claims subsidies shifted labor and resources to military centers, worsening urban poverty and neglecting urban renewal and transit. He warns these patterns threaten other metropolitan areas.
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Seymour Melman
New York
New York City
New York State
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
American South
Puerto Rico
Gerald Fords
The Fourth Amendment and the price of liberty
Alan Barth outlines the Fourth Amendment’s core limits on searches and arrests, tracing key Supreme Court rulings from Weeks to Mapp and explaining the balance between police power and privacy. He notes that privacy, while not named in the text, underpins liberty and justifies procedural safeguards despite efficiency costs.
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Alan Barth
Justice Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Weeks
United States
Wolf
Colorado
Mapp
Ohio
George III
Congress
Oil leader Congress dawdles as available energy dwindles
Deane R. Stewart argues Congress stalls on energy policy as domestic supply shrinks. He condemns the proposed $622 energy bill for lowering crude prices, extending price controls, boosting imports, and expanding regulation, harming Illinois and Midwest refiners and risking higher foreign oil dependence.
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Congress
Midwest
Illinois
Sion
U. S
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New England
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Exxon
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