Author Archive for Community Word Staff
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…
Labor roundup: Illinois gives ‘permatemp’ workers raise; Warner Bros. pays big wigs
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Illinois’ new law gives 640k ‘temp’ workers a raise; Google subcontractor fires most staffers for unionizing; dozens of nurses represented by the Illinois Nurses Association are fighting short-staffing and unsafe working conditions
Bill Knight: Proposed CO2 pipeline appears problematic
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“Public Good?” Farmers, environmentalists (taxpayers, perhaps?) rallying against Navigator, Wolf Carbon putting CO2 pipes into their land
Million-dollar advocates forums tab Peoria lawyer Doug Stephens
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Attorney G. Douglas Stephens last month was certified as a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the trial-lawyers group announced. Membership in the organization is limited to attorneys who have won million…
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Labor roundup: UAW says Big 3 can afford demands; nurses, grad-students organizing
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All three corporations reported hefty profits last year: operating incomes of $9.2 billion (Ford), $13 billion (GM), and $15.2 billion (Stellantis). So the union is demanding some share in the profits their members produce.