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Editorial Board
July 29, 2015

Illinois’ new sheriff can be forgiven if he’s feeling as underappreciated as the marshal Gary Cooper played in “High Noon.” Let’s hope his movie ends as happily. Gov. Bruce Rauner is fighting almost single-handedly against an entrenched, corrupt political class of lawyers, lobbyists, social service providers, media and teachers unions whose rallying cry is to smother reform and maintain business as usual in Springfield. But business as usual has virtually bankrupted the once mighty industrial and agricultural capital of the Midwest. Illinois is now more than three weeks into the 2016 fiscal year with no budget in sight. A spending plan passed by the Democrat-dominated legislature was almost $5 billion in the red (out of total expenditures of $34 billion) and bereft of ideas about where the money was going to come from to pay for it. Rauner squashed every word of this abomination with his veto pen — and rightly so. READ MORE