April 22 marks the 48th anniversary of Earth Day, the environmental movement born to combat widespread industry pollution. On the first Earth Day in 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Today,…
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Nature Rambles | April’s new beginning
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Labor Roundup | April 2018
by Community Word Staff • • 1 Comment
Striking graduate assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rallied March 8 to celebrate a tentative settlement after a marathon overnight bargaining session. “We got our two biggest priorities related to addressing financial stability and guaranteed tuition waivers” for…
Views & Perspectives: Opioid epidemic is mind numbing
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The opioid epidemic is mind numbing, and the death toll is staggering. According to the CDC, 200,000 people have died from overdoes involving prescription opioids. Of the people using illicit opioids, 80 percent began their addiction with prescription drugs. The…
Inland Art: Central Time Ceramics
by Paul Krainak • • 0 Comments
Straight Talk: Another shooting tragedy
by Roger Monroe • • 0 Comments
It was painful to listen and watch as details of another horrible multiple shooting were reported in the nation. The latest at a high school in Parkland, Fla., cost 17 lives and more than 14 injured. After the 19-year old…
Art: What Is It Good For? Community + Collaboration
by Doug and Eileen Leunig • • 0 Comments
Bill Knight: Don’t politicize from the pulpit
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
A year ago this winter, President Trump at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast repeated his campaign promise to dismantle the Johnson Amendment, the federal law prohibiting nonprofits, including churches from getting involved in partisan electoral politics. “I will get rid…
Nature Rambles: Signs of Spring
by Mike Miller • • 0 Comments
This year, February made us remember it is still a month of winter. Frequent snowfalls and cold arctic blasts have kept the landscape in a dormant state for much of the month. As February wanes towards March, that wintery grip…
Reflections From A Baha’i: Religion must create world unity; otherwise world better without it
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.” Will…