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Legislators once more postpone day of reckoning

Posted on July 31, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

In this column, Mark Brown discusses the State’s current fiscal crisis, and the choices that the State made to get to this point, and the possible loss of State services in the future. He quotes the Civic Federation, which says that Illinois’ fiscal problems are worse than California’s because that state has ceased postponing hard budgetary decisions.