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Health professionals split over allowing psychologists to prescribe drugs
Week in and week out for the last five years, Marlin Hoover has boarded a plane for New Mexico, where he sees patients Monday through Wednesday. Then, the psychologist flies home Thursday to treat patients at his southwest suburban office in Tinley Park....
Tags: Psychiatrists, Springfield, Hinsdale, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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Voice of the People, May. 13
Purchasing Plan B As a liberal-minded individual who believes in a woman's right to choose, I believe 15-year-old girls should not be purchasing the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill without their parents' knowing. Most 15- through 17-year-old girls are...Tags: Dave Syverson, Labor Legislation, Religious Conflicts, Jihad, Pharmaceuticals
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Illinois looking at revamp of sex education
— For decades, some public schools in Illinois have taught only abstinence in sex education classes. Now a proposal one step from the governor's desk would require that birth control information be included by schools that choose to teach about...
Tags: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Family Planning, Tom Cross, Diseases and Illnesses, Heather Steans
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Oak Park president-elect seeks to change liquor restriction
Oak Park's president-elect and a local state senator want to change a law that would prohibit the town's leader from having interest in a business with a liquor license while holding public office. State law bans public officials in towns of 50,000...
Tags: Voting, Government, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Bars and Clubs
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Tax group drops case against Oak Park school district
Taxpayers United of America has withdrawn its fight to keep alive a lawsuit that alleged Oak Park School District 97 understated, by 300 percent, the amount of the tax increase from an April 2011 referendum. The Chicago-based tax advocacy group sued...Tags: Wilmette, Laws, Litigation, Trials, Oak Park
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On the 'Scholarship' list in Springfield
Change of SubjectWhere do our lawmakers stand on the issue of legislative scholarships -- those tuition waivers that members of the state house and senate have traditionally been allowed to dispense to constituents? As part of the renewed effort to abolish that...... -
Oh, you Democrats!
Change of SubjectAt the tail end of our story today on the bid to rein in pension increases: Democrats led by Senate President John Cullerton shunted proposals to ban legislative scholarships to a subcommittee, a potential setback to efforts to kill the...... -
In a decade, obscure tunnel board bled $1.3 million on overhead, but where's the underpass?
About every 15 minutes, trains block a busy corridor in the near west suburbs — a problem so frustrating that state officials created a special board to oversee construction of a tunnel or bridge.
That was nearly 12 years ago. The agency has yet to...Tags: Laws, Government, Union Pacific Corporation, Illinois, Personal Finance
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ComEd 'trailer' bill moves forward in House; override next
Tribune reporterSPRINGFIELD -- House members voted Wednesday to adopt changes to smart grid legislation that was vetoed by Gov. Pat Quinn. The vote 91-24 is significant because it clears the way for legislators who voted against the original bill to change their votes...Tags: Laws, Orland Park, Pat Quinn, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Kevin McCarthy
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