Agency directors were asked to help the governor promote All Kids where they can,

Gov. Blagojevich believes in not raising taxes and using the money we have for schools, health care, job creation and law enforcement. The treasurer apparently believes we should take the people's money and use it to hire more employees.

It was a good meeting. The leaders are not that far apart.

It was a good meeting. They made some initial progress, agreed to meet again, and learned the House speaker, Senate president and governor are not that far apart.

It was a good meeting. This is a process of give and take.

This is a game of chance that is considered a lottery game. The lottery has specific abilities and they wouldn't have the ability to do video poker for instance.

The budget is a process of give and take.

We feel like it's a good meeting and it's something to build on.

We think it's pretty outrageous that they're asking us to cover their legal fees when we're not done with the legal battle.

We cannot understand why anyone in their right mind would want to return to the system that we inherited.