And endorses the Metro Planning Council’s suggesting that we rank spending priorities:

With a little more than a week until the General Assembly’s scheduled adjournment, the prospects for a capital bill this spring aren’t good, especially since the current proposal relies heavily on money from two iffy sources: a partial lease of the state lottery and a huge expansion of gambling. That fight will probably wait for the fall.

The Illinois Works plan unveiled by Hastert and Poshard confronts a bald truth: There won’t be a capital bill as long as the governor and lawmakers don’t trust each other. The Metropolitan Planning Council addresses a larger problem, which is that taxpayers don’t trust any of them.

Rich Miller has a full round up from Springfield.