Tied up Taxpayers, Some Lawmakers Upset with Budget Lock SPRINGFIELD, Ill
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep July 1994 7-6-1994 Daily Eastern News: July 06, 1994 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1994_jul Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: July 06, 1994" (1994). July. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1994_jul/1 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1994 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in July by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wednesday July6 T 1994 H Tied up Taxpayers, some lawmakers upset with budget lock SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Taxpayers are getting fed up with law makers doing nothing in an extended session except arguing, C.Qllecting stipends for each day of deadlock. and threatening worker paychecks with missed budget deadlines. "It's a crock of bull," Betty Spitze of Beason said Monday. "It's totally senseless that they're here getting the overtime. "They're forgetting about the people out there, the little people. I think it's time the governor and the legislators quit fighting.• Gov. Jim Edgar and leg islative leaders are at an impasse on adopting a new state budget. The state entered the new fiscal year July 1 with out a budget plan. In general, negotiations have stalled because Democrats say the Republican budget proposals overestimate the state's new revenues and do not pay off LA SHJNDA CLARK/Photo edltor enough of the state's Medicaid debt or Hup two three-~Ourth devote enough new money to educa- ' - :J • ti. on. World Warn Veterans led CharLeston's Fowth ofJuly parade Monday ajtemoonfrom the town square to Morton House Speaker Michael Madigan, D- Park, Fourth and Lincoln. See photo page, Page 7. Chicago, says he is willing t:o earmark 'D.. d I • ~~!~:$ig1h:!rn~:~e~; :::t~ c .a ogram may en oan won1es money will be matched by federal dol- By BILL BOCKMAN lars. Staff Wiiter Edgar rejected that and returned to ==-"c.:.=;.;;_____ ______ an earlier position that includes spend Student loan worries may soon be a he program is designed to save the taxpayers money ing only $328 million on old Medicaid sign of the :past with the introduction of ''T bills. At one point, Edgar had agreed to a new financial aid program. while offering more op tions for repayment to the stu- pay as much as $343 million. The Federal Direct Loan Program, dents." Republicans contend Madigan's which went into effect Friday, will demands to cut some parts of their begin with 104 colleges, universities - Craig Munier budget would jeopardize basic state and proprietary schools for the first U of I associate director services such as prison staffing. year. The House has met every day but The University of Illinois at of financial aid one since missing the June 30 deadline. Champaign-Urbana was invited t:o be The Senate has met twice and now one of the 104 to participate in the through private guarantees from the John Flynn agrees in its capabilities for must be available to return to inaugural year of the program. Eastern federal government. The federal gov making the process easier for everyone. Springfield on a 24-hour notice. Illinois University will be added t:o the ernment then :pays the lenders interest "Although the benefits for the school For every day they're in session, the list for the second year. on behalf of the students. are obvious, it will also greatly benefit 118 members of the House and the 59 University of Illinois Associate "The FDLP would eliminate the gov the students," Flynn said. members of the Senate receive a per Director of Financial Aid Craig Munier ernment from having to pay the Currently, it takes approximately six diem check of $81. feels this program will benefit the stu lender's interest, saving the taxpayers weeks for a student to receive his or They also receive one free trip to and dents as well as the school. money," Munier said."It is also a good her processed loan check, Flynn said. from Springfield each week for mileage, "The Federal Direct Loan Program program for our school." Under the new program, students which comes out of the state kitty of basically eliminates the middleman - Munier said the program reduces could receive their checks in as little as taxpayers' dollars. the lending institutions," Munier said. the paper work for the schools dramati 72 hours. if And no budget is passed in the "The program is designed t:o save the cally, considering a projected 15,000 The Clinton Administration will next seven days, the budget impasse taxpayers money while offering more students will be in need of financial aid review the program in 1998 and is pre will directly hit the wallets of several options for repayment to the students." for next year totalling around $60 mil dicting $4.3 billion saved on interest thousand employees of the University Under the current program, Munier lion." with 40 percent of all public schools of Illinois and Southern Illinois said most students receive their loans Eastern Director of Financial Aid linked t:o this program. University. The continuing story of Bungalow Beetle Pesticides, traps two methods of dealing with the difficult-to-control bugs By JEREMY R. KIRK area, and gardeners are wag became a nuisance, wreaking "They think they are going City editor ing .a war against the pests. havoc with plants. to mate," Cooper said. "They are all over the Cooper said the beetles Cooper also said a chemical They're small, deep-green place," said Dan Cooper, an usually do not kill plants, but called Sevin can be used in a and hell-bent on destruction. employee of Four Seasons instead eat the center parts of spray or dust form to stop the A new kind of beetle inva Garden Center. "The problem leaves, making the foliage insects. sion has hit America, and seems t:o get worse from year resemble a web. Control of The larva form of Japanese gardeners from the Mis to year." the beetles has been increas beetles have been known to sissippi River to the East Originally discovered in ingly difficult, but Cooper wreck lawns by feasting on Coast are cringing. New Jersey in 1916, the bee said there are methods to the roots of grass. The larva Hordes of Japanese beetles tles are believed to have been combat the pervasive bugs. hatch in August and continue with voracious appetites have brought over from J apan on Traps lined with a beetle feeding under gr ound until been chomping away at iris roots. The beetles were sex hormone called pher ties are attracted to the hor they bu rrow in the winter everything from Linden and t h ough t to be rare at the omone helps cut down on the mone and die when they fall months, and then come to life plum t r ees t o r oses in the time, but soon multiplied and number of beetles. The bee- int:o a bag and eventually suf in the spring. focate. Talk network EIU ~TUDENT~ takes off on Fourth of July H£IHUUT8•o-•o FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) -The American fas 2 new stylists Keri and Tonia cination with television talk shows reaches IN BRIEF its logical culmination on the Fourth of July, specializing in summer styles when America's Talking, a 24-hour, all-talk, cable TV network, opens for business. Champaign "Three months ago, there was literally at~ 1/lJiiJ'f(foi;i nothing here," said Beth Tilson, the net work's senior programmer. She held a picture of a vast, dark. gutted interior space with may ax: tax GE, NBC and CNBC executives in the fore ground. CHA!vt:PAIGN CAP> - Some Champaign Today, that space has become t~·o sleek, City Council members are considering fully equipped television studios, waiting eliminating property taxes because of the only for the cameras, technicians and studio increasing revenue being generated by audiences to inhabit them. the retail industry north oflnterstate 74. That happens at 7 a.m. EDT on Inde The idea began to take hold in budget pendence Day, when America's Talking goes discussions this spring when unanticipat live, beaming its :shows into roughly 10 mil ed sales tax revenue prompted the coun lion cable homes nationwide. Open 8 pm - 1 ar'h cil to lower the city ta.x rate from $1.47 to "We're about to start the talk show revolu $1.30 on taxes payable in 1995. tion," Tilson said. Monday - Saturday In the last several months, numerou:s "We're going to bring television talk back 00 stores have announced plans to locate or to where it used to be: intelligent, informed. Wed. All Bottles $1. expand along the interstate. insightful, interactive, and irreverent at 00 · About 1.2 million square feet of retail times." Every Night $1. space are expected to be added over the "AT-a.m.," the in-house name for the morn Keystone Cans next three years. ing show that changes its name every day, "'We're either going to have to create will begin life as "America's Talking; July 4, new needs or reduce property taxei:;," said 1994," with hosts Steve Doocy (former host of NO COVER council member Marty Smith. syndication's "House Party") and Kai Kim, But Mayor Dannel McCollum believes formerly ofWTNH in New Haven, Conn it is unrealistic to consider doing away There's other, less conventional talk fare: 1 with the city property tax.