By Robert Holly/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- As a member of the Champaign County Local Foods Policy Council, Maya Bauer was required to file a form in 2012
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Read MoreIllinois lawmakers’ paychecks aren’t in the mail yet, but according to one report by Illinois Public Media, the legislature's special committee on pen
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Read MoreCongress is marking up the Farm Bill this week. The House version (seen here) makes cuts to the food assistance program. Over 1.6 million people
Read MoreBy Staff/CU-CitizenAccess An estimated $85 billion in automatic spending cuts to the federal budget are set to take place this week if no further a
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Read MoreBy Julie Wurth/The News-Gazette -- A new report from the U.S. Census shows Champaign and Vermilion counties holding their own economically in 2010, w
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