By Dave Weiman It can be a bewildering array of facts and figures that an elder and their family face attempting to select a care provider. The following information may help in understanding the basic services provided by skilled nursing…
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New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Answers to 10 Questions? In October, the American Cancer Society recommended women get fewer mammograms to screen for breast cancer. Many people were alarmed. Isn’t testing more often better? There are no simple answers, as…
The Myths of Immigration
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Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and professor at University of California, Berkeley, has tackled “The 4 Big Lies about Immigrants – and the Truth” in a recent piece on his blog. Debunking these myths gives an important…
DIRTY POLITICS?
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Steve Shearer is well-known by folks who follow politics. He’s been a part of Aaron Schock’s political life almost from day one. At one time he was Schock’s chief of staff. Like Schock, Shearer has been questioned by the F.B.I.…
Clergy, laity pray for justice for Cassidy
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Hundreds of Central Illinoisans for years watched Father Terry Cassidy mimic a fish that’s unaware it’s surrounded by water. It’s been his light-hearted effort to show how people often don’t realize they’re surrounded – by grace. But Cassidy, 64, now…
Cuts to child care subsidies bigoted and illogical
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It was toward the end of her press conference advocating to restore funding for child care subsidies that State Rep. Jehan Booth-Gordon expressed her shock. The TV cameras were off and most print reporters had gone when Booth-Gordon said she…
Veterans Day:
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Honor veterans by insisting on the support services they earned What can we citizens of this country do to show our appreciation to military veterans for the service they have done for us? I had the opportunity in September to…
Iran on the Illinois
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Let’s get this straight: The Pekin City Council censured its mayor John McCabe for a phone call he made to a council member’s boss. Then McCabe apologized for his bad judgment. But Peoria mayor Jim Ardis has not apologized for…
Most compassionate position on abortion: It should be accessible, safe and rare
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By Burt Raabe When I came to Bradley University in 1965, abortions were illegal and birth control pills were only about five years old. Like most freshmen, I was 18 years old with little, well virtually no, sexual experience. I…
“Correctly Misspelled”
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The other day I was finishing an email to some otherwise wonderful Christians who, in my opinion, were stepping way out of line in matters of age and racial discrimination of the subtle but searing sort that still infects our…