Consequences include more than 800,000 federal workers could be required to work without pay or be locked out of their jobs; no new Social Security cards will be issued and veterans’ benefits claims stop being processed; hiring of law enforcement and other essential employees stops; processing visa and passport requests stop; and inspections of food, water, workplaces, chemical plants, and hazardous waste sites come to a halt.
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Arts Alerts: Lots to do to begin New Year this month
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Ana V. Fleming’s ‘Until the Darkness’ exhibit at Peoria Art Guild; ‘Puff (or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic)’ at Corn Stock; Comedy at Jukebox and Cafe Santa Rosa
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Labor roundup: Unionists blast Hamas, push cease-fire
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With the Middle East war continuing, and with Israeli military entering Gaza to try to oust Hamas forces, union leaders from the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees and the Government Employees back Israeli’s response to Hamas’s attacks. Meanwhile, more than 240…
From the river to the sea: What does that mean?
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Jewish people consider it a clear demand for Israel’s destruction, to eliminate Jews from the region; others believe it’s a call for freedom for the Palestinian people throughout Israel
Labor roundup: Illinois State faculty unionizes
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‘Unstoppable majority’ organizes in Normal; nurses, pharmacists protesting understaffing
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Art Alerts: Peoria Symphony performing ‘Joy of Grace,’ Peoria Players staging ‘The Music Man,’ Cornstock doing ‘The Aliens’
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Metamora comic Jeff Bailey headlining at the Jukebox Comedy Club Nov. 3-4. Central Illinois Jazz Society says Todd Kelly’s Central Illinois Jazz Orchestra will play Nov. 19 at the Trailside Center.
Poetry: As the Planet Warmed for Greta Thunberg
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The Anointed One descended from his tower. The huddled masses saw his health, his wealth, his power. He had a glow. He had a glower. Throughout the land the people had been in a funk, they had turned to junk.…
Poetry: Autumn Monarch
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Had I a poet’s way with words when I was 15 and had seen, she at ten, too, the new waitress, at the Candy Kitchen, I, the lone customer at the back table, a nobody but she had smiled at…