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Trying to deal without a deal State workers want to keep Illinois’ heartbeat going Inside
BY JERMAINE PIGEE jpigee@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5525 @JPigee84
Illinois lawmakers evade pressure to buckle on budget, A4.
DIXON – State workers say they are the heartbeat of Illinois, but if contract negotiations can’t be worked out between the state and the union, that heartbeat may need a little CPR. “State workers in Illinois are important,” said Kathy Lane, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 448. “Without state employees, people will
not get the services they need to get.” Lane was among about 75 people who attended a state employee town hall meeting in Dixon Saturday afternoon, where they spent nearly 2 hours discussing the services state workers provide to local communities. “We want to get the word out about how important state servic-
es are to the communities that we serve,” said Lane, who has spent 25 years working for the department of children and family services. Gov. Bruce Rauner and AFSCME, the largest state employee union, haven’t been able to come to an agreement on wages, benefits and other employment terms during contract negotiations, but did agree last week to keep workers on the job for another 2 months. DEAL CONTINUED ON A4
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Gail Greenblatt of the Department of Children and Family Services talks to a group of state employees Saturday at the Northwest Territory Historic Center in Dixon.
FERGUSON, MO.
POW WOW PACKED FULL OF TRADITION IN PROPHETSTOWN
Incident spurs 40 new state measures Far more proposals have stalled or failed, according to review BY DAVID A. LIEB The Associated Press
Photos by Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com
ABOVE: James Sanderson Jr. of Taylor Ridge dances around the pow wow circle Saturday during the ninth annual Intertribal and Traditional Pow Wow along the Rock River at the Prophetstown State Recreation Area. The event featured drums and dancing, authentic native food, arts, and crafts. RIGHT: Linda Eagle (right) and her mother, Paulette Engelkens, dance around the pow wow circle. BELOW: Native American dancers dance their way around the pow wow circle Saturday in Prophetstown.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – When a white Ferguson policeman fatally shot a black 18-year-old nearly a year ago, the St. Louis suburb erupted in violent protests and the nation took notice. Since then, legislators in almost every state have proposed changes to the way police interact with the public. The result: Twenty-four states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer-worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Despite all that action, far more proposals have stalled or failed, the AP review found. And few states have done anything to change their laws on when police are justified to use deadly force. National civil rights leaders praised the steps taken by states but said they aren’t enough to solve the racial tensions and economic disparities that have fueled protests in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York and elsewhere following instances in which people died in police custody or shootings. “What we have right now in the country is an emerging consensus as to the need to act,” said NAACP President Cornell William Brooks. “What we don’t have is a consensus as to how to act, what to act on and how to do this in some kind of priority order.” INCIDENT CONTINUED ON A2
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ABBY ................... A7 COMICS ............... A8 CROSSWORD......B9
LIFESTYLE ........... A7 LOTTERY ............. A2 NATION/STATE..... A5
OBITUARIES ........ A4 OPINION .............. A6 POLICE ................ A2
Today’s weather High 81. Low 55. More on A3.
Harvest time! Festival returns in Franklin Grove, A3.
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