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Imam Mahmood: Understand rather than dismiss
by Imam Mazhar Mahmood • • 0 Comments
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Nature Rambles: Chemicals trespass — some things are in the air
by Mike Miller • • 0 Comments
Herbicides and pesticides like Dicamba and 2,4-D are cross-contaminating neighboring crops and surrounding plant life. And we do not know what long-term effect this will have on our landscape
The Watch: County finds way to pay off Heddington Oaks; City pays for Pere parking; Dunlap discusses books
by Terry Bibo • • 0 Comments
League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria observers attend and report on local government meetings.
West Peoria News: To library or not library? That is the question …
by April Silver • • 0 Comments
Could West Peoria have its very own library with a new tax levy? Balancing access and interest with affordability of any project
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: U.S. mixing it up in War in Ukraine
by William Rau • • 2 Comments
Providing Ukraine with our military aid/technology also improves our own security. It allows the U.S. to restock what we send from our armories with new, often with more advanced, replacements. Have Republicans forgotten this?
Arts Alerts: Cool music scene for cabin fever; nice playbill at area theaters
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Revel in Red playing Five Points; ‘Something Rotten’ at Peoria Players; ‘Significant Other’ at Corn Stock; ICC Performing Arts Center doing ‘Women Playing ‘Hamlet’; Sam Miller will go at the Jukebox Comedy Club; ‘FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art’ at Riverfront Museum
Straight Talk: WTVP fall guys were not at fault for TV station’s downfall
by Roger Monroe • • 1 Comment
Why not ask the management of the three stations to serve on the management team? Maybe consider asking one of the stations to loan an administrator to be an interim CEO for one year.
Nature Rambles: Ancient branches swirl into our past and future
by Mike Miller • • 0 Comments
If left to its own devises, the old oak, which spans 10 generations, could easily outlive several more. Perhaps the fact that it is still standing says something about an improvement in our environmental ethics.
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: As the world burns, Ethanol helps fuel the fire
by William Rau • • 0 Comments
Unintended consequences rear their ugly head with the profligate promotion of ‘clean’ corn fuel that has turned the crop into a net negative for the environment
Labor roundup: Shutdown looms over federal employees; UAW reaching out to other automakers
by Community Word Staff • • 0 Comments
Consequences include more than 800,000 federal workers could be required to work without pay or be locked out of their jobs; no new Social Security cards will be issued and veterans’ benefits claims stop being processed; hiring of law enforcement and other essential employees stops; processing visa and passport requests stop; and inspections of food, water, workplaces, chemical plants, and hazardous waste sites come to a halt.