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Illinois Issues
July 1978 Vol.IV, No. 7
Contents

O'Neal or Durbin — A real choice ______4
Should the lieutenant governor only stand and wait?
By Jerry Mennenga

Product liability insurance _________6
Can insurers provide it? Can business afford it? Can consumers count on it?
By Phillip M. Rowell

Community College Finances: Who'$ on first? _______11
State share of funding determined last
By Vicki Gerson

Civil rights for the mentally ill ____________16
Artful compromise in the General Assembly
By Robert B. Sipe and Luther London

Community mental health services_____22
A turf struggle between state and locals is on the horizons
By Margaret S. Knoepfle

Commerce Commission to reform motor carrier division____________27
By Margaret S. Knoepfle

YACC: A lot of jobs for unemployed youth ____________32
By Greg Mansfield

THE STATE OF THE STATE _________2
By Greg Mansfield
Carter's visit: Mending fences, fielding questions, raising money

LEGISLATIVE ACTION ____________28
By Gary Adkins and Jerry Mennenga
No to ERA — Odds good for off-track betting — Undecided on spending

POLITICS _________33
By Robert Kieckhefer
Has Thompson taken over as state GOP 'boss'?

CHICAGO ____________34
By Milton Rakove
Chairman Dunne — a little more democratic than Daley

WASHINGTON ____________35
By Mark Gruenberg
Bilandic succeeds where Daley didn't

SELECTED STATE REPORTS____________26

AUDITOR GENERAL REPORTS____________29

EXECUTIVE REPORT ____________30
Goss replaces Murray as CETA adminisitrator

JUDICIAL RULINGS____________30
New divorce law on equal property rights

STATE STIX____________31

ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS____________31
No witness fee for policemen

NAMES______________ 32

 

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