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Illinois Issues

July 1981 VOL. VII, NO. 7

ILLINOIS ISSUES is published by Sangamon State University. The magazine's board is appointed by the presidents of Sangamon State University and the University of Illinois. In addition to subscription income the magazine is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, support from the University of Illinois and Sangamon State University, and donations. The contents of the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of either university, the Ford Foundation or other donors.

Publisher: J. Michael Lennon (on leave)
Editor and Acting Publisher: Caroline Gherardini
Fulfillment and Advertising manager: Elizabeth A. Curl
Circulation director: John E. Cockrell
Editor emeritus: William L. Day
Associate editors: Margaret S. Knoepfle, Larry Smith
            Richard J. Shereikis
Assistant Editor: John G. Martin
Legislative correspondent: Diane Ross, Shelley Davis
Contributing editors: Tom Littlewood,
      Bill Miller, Robert Kieckhefer,
      Milton Rakove, Robert Mackay
      Ed McManus, Anna J. Merritt,
Artist: Ed Dyson
Business staff: Bonnie S. Roberts
Student staff: Patricia Hadsall

The Board
Chairman: Samuel K. Gove, director, Institute
      of Government and Public Affairs, University
      of Illinois, Urbana
Vice Chairman: James R. Kackley, partner
      Arthur Anderson & Co., Chicago
William L. Day, editor emeritus, Springfield
Doris B. Holleb, director, Metropolitan
      Institute, University of Chicago
David Kenney, director, Illinois Department
      of Conservation, Springfield
Louis H. Masotti, professor of political science and urban
      affairs, Northwestern University,
      Evanston
Odas Nicholson, Judge, Cook County Circuit Court
James D. Nowlan, Director, public administration program
      Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana
James T. Otis, lawyer, Chicago
Theodore Peterson, professor of journalism,
      University of Illinois, Urbana
Betsy Plank, assistant vice president, Illinois
      Bell Telephone Co., Chicago
Gerald H. Pugh, vice president and director of
      government relations, Combined Insurance
      Company of America, Chicago
Carl Shier, international representative, Region
      4, United Auto Workers
Honorable William G. Stratton, vice president,
      Canteen Corporation, Chicago
Thomas F. Roeser, Vice President-government relations
     The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago
James M. Wall, editor, Christian Century,
      Chicago
Samuel W. Witwer, lawyer, Chicago
James C. Worthy, professor of management.
      Northwestern University
J. Michael Lennon, ex officio member

Contents

4Speaker George Ryan: Tough and powerful with a tendency to be abrasive
By Shelley Davis

6Senate President Phil Rock: A 'little less than even-handed' and a desire to be governor
By Shelley Davis

8Thompsons budget cut #2 on may 11th
By Diane Ross

9Fahner backs revisions in open meetings law
By Diane Ross

19HUMANITIES ESSAYS
A poem: To Prisoners
By Gwendolyn Brooks

2 THE STATE OF THE STATE By Shelley Davis
The RTA: finding a coalition

17 SCIENCE By Julie A. Dutton
The trouble with sludge

23 LEGISLATIVE ACTION By Diane Ross
The Feud over rules in the House

35 POLITICS By Robert Kieckhefer
Another test of coattails in 1982?

36 CHICAGO By Milton Rakove
The schools: Who shall lead them?

37 WASHINGTON By Robert Mackay
Frustration and fulfillment on Capitol Hill for Illinois' freshmen

38 THE ROSTRUM By Michael J. Howlett and WIllian H. Perkins
Wanted: the rapprochement of business and government

LETTERS_______9

SELECTED STATE REPORT_______18

BILL SUMMARIES___________24
Elementary and secondary Education/ State Pay Raises/ Pension Raises and Policy/ Motor Vehicles/ State Government

EXECUTIVE REPORT___________30
Unemployment update: time for a turnaround?

STATE STIX_______31

ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS_______31

JUDICIAL RULINGS__________32
The public interest and the empeloyers' right to fire/ Comparative negligence and contributing negligence. Home rule nd landlord-tenant rights/ Construction company found negligent under Road Injuries construction act

NAMES_______33

ILLINOIS ISSUES (USPS 060-130) is published monthly (12 times per year). Editorial offices: 226 Capital Campus, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois 62708 (telephone: 217/782-0294). Please address questions regarding your subscription to ILLINOIS ISSUES, Subscription Division, P. O. Box 251, Mount Morris, Illinois 61054 (telephone: 815-734-4151).

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to ILLINOIS ISSUES, Subscription Division, P. O. Box 251, Mount Morris, Illinois 61054. Subscription rate: $18 year/$30 two years/$42 three years; student rate is $9 a year. Individual copy is $1.75. Second class postage paid at Springfield, Illinois. 51980 by ILLINOIS ISSUES, 226 CC, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois 62708. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce any part of the magazine.

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