Visible barriers, reducing reflection can help save some of billions of birds crashing into windows
Nature Rambles: Help fight bird mortality through the looking glass
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Columns
Labor roundup: Illinois State faculty unionizes
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‘Unstoppable majority’ organizes in Normal; nurses, pharmacists protesting understaffing
Straight Talk: Silence only stirs up stigma of suicide
by Roger Monroe • • 0 Comments
Journal Star is in the mail? That has to be devastating to readers. Wish we all could be like Ed Parker
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.
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
West Peoria News: Demolition next step in the evolution of our new West Peoria City Hall
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New banking options may be included around site of old bank building; Christmas Tree gets lit Nov. 27
Heat Waves — in Red & Black: What’s next? Winters with hunger
by William Rau • • 0 Comments
Extreme weather from summer of discontent — from climate change and Ukraine War, for example — has decimated crops worldwide
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
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