An election season wrap-up, pages 14 through 23
FEATURES
14 Politics old-style
Unions still wage face-to-face campaigns.
16 Third-party dreaming
Republicans succeeded where others have failed.
by AmyBurch &
Maureen F. McKinney
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18 God and politics
Voters want public officials to have faith, but they don't want religion to rule government.
20 Books
Where are the Vito Marzullos?
For that matter, where are the Ev Dirksens, the Paul Powells, the Harold Washingtons?
24 Point of view
Lost in the silence of Cahokia
28 Measuring up
Critics charge we're putting testing ahead of teaching.
31 Critical condition
Federal Medicare cuts are jeopardizing small hospitals.
by Derek Winstanley &
Mark E. Peden
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33 Guest essay
When a water witch won't work
Credits: Art Director Diana Nelson designed this month's cover.
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Lost in the silence of Cahokia, page 24
DEPARTMENTS
3 Conversation
with the Publisher
by Ed Wojcicki
4 Editor's Notebook
by Peggy Boyer Long
6 State of the State
by Burney Simpson
The rise in peaker plants
8 Briefly
by Rodd Whelpley
36 People
by Rodd Whelpley
40 Letters
41 A View from Metro East
by Patrick E. Gauen
A need for good local officials
42 Politics
by Charles N. Wheeler III
A regrettable anniversary
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