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Government

Comptroller Visits QC

WVIK Staff

After just a few weeks on the job, the new Illinois comptroller is taking time out from working in Springfield to meet with local leaders and talk about the state's financial problems. This afternoon Leslie Munger met with about 30 elected officials, city staff, and college trustees in East Moline, as part of a two-day tour in northern Illinois.

Munger says the state's unpaid bills now total nearly 8 billion dollars, and people are worried. 
The state cannot pay all the money it owes right now, but Munger hopes to set up some sort of program with a dependable "stream" of payments to local governments and agencies. Dave Emerick, chair of the board for Black Hawk College, told her the college is not asking for any "new" money, just to get the funding it's been promised, on time. 

Munger held a similar meeting in Rockford this morning, and will hold two more tomorrow in Peoria and LaSalle. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.