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A publication of the University of Illinois at Springfield

January 1998
What makes Roland run?page24
What makes Roland run?page24



Secretary of state? Page 30
Secretary of state? Page 30

Volume XXIV, No. 1
Don't cha get weary, page14
Don't cha get weary, page14

FEATURES

14 Don'cha get Weary by Judy Spencer & Deanna Blackwell
An essay on Martin Luther King Drive in photographs and poetry.

20 Forum by William G. Holland
Members of state government boards and commissions
need to become activists.

24 What makes Roland run? by James L. Merriner
Democrat Roland Burris could just take it easy. After all, he's a successful
Chicago lawyer. Instead, he's making his eighth bid for statewide
office in 22 years. He's running for governor again.

30 Secretary of state? by Jennifer Davis
Why are so many people competing for the chance to issue you
your driver's license?

DEPARTMENTS

3 Conversation
With the Publisher
by Ed Wojcicki

4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long

6 State of the State
by Jennifer Davis
Why we're slow on ethics reform

8 Briefly
by Donald Sevener

38 People
by Jennifer Davis

40 Letters

41 A View From Metro East
by Patrick E. Gauen
An expensive legislative race

42 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
Campaign '98

Credits: The portrait of the wedding party on our cover is by free-lance photo journalist
Judy Spencer. It is part of her documentary of life on Martin Luther King Drive in Springfield.

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