With $29 million waiting in the wings from Navigator, McLean County Zoning Board refuses to hear testimony on pipeline matters
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: CO2 Pipeline Play in McLean County: Act 2
by William Rau • • 2 Comments
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Bill Knight: Farm Bill languishing as Congress bickers; Dec. 1 deadline
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Hopes to improve conservation, food assistance, farm programs, clean energy dashed by Republicans
The Lion’s Den: Black Horror films mirror minority life and its horrific reality
by Daniel McCloud • • 0 Comments
The Jordan Peele book ‘Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror’ and documentary ‘Horror Noir: A History of Black Horror’ illustrate why the Black guy was first to die in Hollywood
Jackson: Confidence in our future is hanging on our fears
by Xavier Jackson • • 0 Comments
The citizens of our nation — White and Black — seem unwilling to aspire to America’s ideals even though we all proclaim to love liberty, justice and equality. … Equal citizenship under the Constitution is a mirage that Blacks have wandered towards for generations across a desert of institutionalized persecution
Bill Knight: Proposed CO2 pipeline appears problematic
by Community Word Staff • • 0 Comments
“Public Good?” Farmers, environmentalists (taxpayers, perhaps?) rallying against Navigator, Wolf Carbon putting CO2 pipes into their land
Nature Rambles: ‘Fluddle Stompers’ flock to unique puddle ponds
by Mike Miller • • 0 Comments
If there is ample rain to create fluddles, many of the shorebirds {sandpipers, plovers, and their kin) will drop into these fleeting pools to feed during the day.
The Lion’s Den: Our children can feel difference between what’s good and bad
by Daniel McCloud • • 0 Comments
Historic “Doll Tests” conducted by Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark in New York helped Americans realize disadvantages of segregation across the nation
Bill Knight: Our streets have actually been safer this summer
by Bill Knight • • 1 Comment
Following national trends, homicides in Peoria started dropping last year after more than doubling between 2020 and 2021. They are down 21% in Peoria since July
The Lion’s Den: ‘New Normal’ or business as usual?
by Daniel McCloud • • 0 Comments
It is a fancy way of saying that when really, really bad things unexpectedly happen, due to unforeseen circumstances and crises, the need to adapt to handle these challenges positively or negatively will determine how one’s quality of life is influenced. Mass shootings, increased crime and violence, book banning, and historical revisionism — Florida’s 2023 Social Studies curriculum, which will include lessons on how “slaves developed skills” that could be used for “personal benefit.”
Bill Knight: Rich tax dodgers cost us all
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Federal budgets gutting the IRS, whose audits target “earned income” homes over the wealthy. … Candidates say they support “law and order.” But it’s really for some.