Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:

 A Tough Sell
"Political analysis has a good audience online," writes the Reader's Whet Moser, "but local and microlocal political coverage can be a tough sell."

Why TV Doesn't Rot My Brain
One Story Up's Megan Cottrell takes a cue from The West Wing and questions the value of our current official poverty measures.

We Ration. We Ration. We Ration.
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein reminds health care reform critics that we already ration care in America by making it too expensive for everyone to afford.

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