No thanks, I’m not hungry anymore. Recent publicity for a cooking magazine: “Making pie crust that isn’t soggy, hard, flavorless, under-salted, under-baked, or totally unworkable can be a home cook’s worst nightmare.”
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“Since 1980, spending by the [Illinois] legislative branch has nearly doubled from $40 million to $75 million,” report Karen Nagel and Max Ragozzo in Illinois Politics (July). “The increase occurred in spite of the Cutback Amendment of 1980 [sponsored by Pat Quinn], which reduced the number of lawmakers in the House of Representatives by one-third. The elimination of several legislative study commissions following a scandal in 1984 also did not slow the growth of General Assembly spending….Nationwide, only the California General Assembly spends more. The added costs and autocratic control by party leaders in California, however, ultimately led the voters to approve a term limits plan.”
R.I.P. Illinois has lost at least 115 native species since white settlers arrived, according to Susan Post of the Illinois Natural History Survey, as reported by John Schwegman of the state Department of Conservation. Of these, 106 survive elsewhere, but 9 are gone forever; four clams and mussels (leafshell, round combshell, Tennessee riffleshell, Wabash riffleshell), three birds (passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker), one plant (Thismia), and one insect (the chewing louse that parasitized the passenger pigeon).
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
