Candidates to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood (R- Peoria) from the 18th Congressional District are, in alphabetical order, Colleen Callahan (Democrat), Sheldon Schafer (Green), and Aaron Schock (Republican). Below are responses to questions sent to all three campaigns, questions derived from the nonpartisan Project Vote Smart – supported by the late U.S. Sen....
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The Chamber of Commerce presents itself as a civic group promoting business, but in aggressive campaigning against Democrats, lobbying against equal pay for women and consumer protection, and pushing for restrictions on victims’ right to a day in court, the Chamber shows another side.
Of course, there often are conflicts between individuals and bureaucratic organizations...
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June should be Computer Month, and it’s a fine time to starting recycling common materials most folks may not even see as waste.
Or as toxic.
Computer scientists Howard Engstrom and Maurice V. Wilkes were born in June (on June 21, 1902, and June 23, 1913, respectively).
The first commercial electronic computer, UNIVAC 1,...
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To many, May means Mayday and May flowers – violets in baskets left at doorsteps where bells are rung and visitors flee, laughing. May means Mother’s Day, too, of course, but more, too.
Personally, May is when my son was born – 21 years ago this month. And it’s when my own youthful innocence died...
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March had too few days when kites remind kids that wind is a power that rivals the rainfall expected in April showers.
And central Illinois has too many of the silent, skeletal remains of windmills from decades past.
But things change; progress occurs.
Sometimes in spite of political impediments to reform.
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, but one of its key provisions is increasingly ignored, hurting working Americans and U.S. society.
The last major piece of New Deal legislation, that law guaranteed a minimum wage, banned child labor, set the maximum work week at 40 hours, and made...
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It was 40 years ago when progressive Americans started to believe that they could change politics, but the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the ostracism of Gene McCarthy and the “coronation” of centrist Hubert H. Humphrey showed that progressives shouldn’t expect to start at the top and work their way back to the grassroots.
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A medical test was recommended. Insurance cards and forms were completed, and competent health professionals conducted the procedure. A follow-up exam was urged and completed. Good news. Time passed. (More than six months.)
The first notice that hundreds of dollars was past due came as an initial statement from the medical center 26 weeks later....
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December is a wonderful month of mystery, a time with a lot of religious holidays and secular good will to others, but a time of tension, friction and foolishness, too. Some of the most outlandish foolishness seems to come from the Bush administration’s Bureau of Prisons and – in a bit of bipartisan boobery...
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There’s a new vision for some public policy, and the country cries out for it. It doesn’t matter whether those cries come with tears of frustration, tears of sorrow, tears of joy, or tears from pollution.
Jobs can be created by promoting smart energy solutions to global warming. The planet can be helped without...
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