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Inland Art: Modern Masters make their mark at Riverfront Museum
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“This second exhibited selection of work from the collection of John and Jeff Heintzman brings together meditative, spiritual and playful qualities of the gesture, marks made and accentuated by the artist’s hand. These works not only perpetuate the impulse to…
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: PAYS to provide water like it’s a human right
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Climate and Equity Jobs Act program helps fight the scarcity and inequality that economics creates Last month, I explored physical shortages of water and nature-based approaches to closing deficits in drinking water. A more common American problem is rapidly accelerating…
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Labor Roundup: Will UAW leadership affect CAT talks? Southwest workers blame airline; strike at HarperCollins
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The United Auto Workers’ current agreement with Caterpillar is scheduled to expire March 1. Likely issues include not only compensation, but attendance policies — all as the UAW international leadership could be changing and related situations such as the union’s…
Make multi-unit housing tobacco-free, says the ITFC
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By JESSICA JOHNSON Illinois Tobacco-Free Communities Coordinator for Hult Center for Healthy Living Have you ever been constantly bothered by the smoke from a neighbor’s cigarette? Chances are most people have experienced the uncomfortable effect of breathing in somebody else’s…
Heat Waves in Red & Black: Earth’s fate precariously placed at glacial pace
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For many Floridians, melting polar glaciers means too much water, rising sea levels, and eventual relocation. For many Peruvians, melting Andes glaciers means torrential spring floods, summer water shortages, and rivers — major sources of drinking water — possibly running…
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Elvis was a hero to most, but not me in spite of history
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“Elvis was a hero to most … but he never meant shit to me you see. Straight up racist … that sucker was simple and plain.” That lyric from the Public Enemy classic, “Fight the Power” shaped my opinion of…