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* I’ll be on Public Television at noon today before the start of Gov. Pat Quinn’s budget address. Check your local listings. The broadcast will also be carried live on Public Radio, so you can listen in if you don’t have access to a TV or don’t want to actually see me (and I don’t blame you).

* We’ll have a separate thread with this morning’s news stories about the upcoming budget address, but this will be our live coverage post throughout the day, with react and all sorts of other goodies, so stay with us right here. As always, Blackberry users click here, everybody else can just kick back and watch the show unfold before your very eyes…