Pension Reform at One-Yard Line

Nekritz uses a football term: Pension reform ‘at the one-yard line’
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State lawmakers took some heat this week for only briefly meeting in Springfield to put together a deal to tackle the state’s $100 billion in pension debt. State Rep. Elaine Nekritz, a Northbrook Democrat who’s been near the front of the debate, is tired of the football analogies but says, “We reall…