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Neal Spelces new memoir tells us a lot about Austin history, the LBJ family and more.

That was the theme of policy maven Ralph Martire’s recent column. He complained that Illinoisans voted “against their own best interests” by rejecting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed progressive income-tax amendment to the Illinois Constitution. The vote was not a close one — not only did the proposal not receive the supermajority support required to pass a state constitutional amendment, it did not even receive majority support. The results were not just a disappointment...