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State Week: Grand Bargain Grind & Trump's U.S. Attorneys

Brian Mackey
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NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS

Republican senators working with Gov. Bruce Rauner began breaking off pieces of the "grand bargain," which Democrats say undermines efforts to move toward a compromise budget. Meanwhile, what had been a bipartisan selection process for Illinois' U.S. attorneys is changing, with senior Republican Congressman John Shimkus saying he's waiting for the Trump administration to advise him on how to proceed.

Sean Crawford hosts with regular panelists Charlie Wheeler and Brian Mackey, and guest Bernard Schoenburg, political reporter and columnist for The State Journal-Register in Springfield.

State Week | March 17, 2017

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Brian Mackey formerly reported on state government and politics for NPR Illinois and a dozen other public radio stations across the state. Before that, he was A&E editor at The State Journal-Register and Statehouse bureau chief for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
The director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.