Who can we hold accountable for when we ‘celebrate’ the season by stuffing our faces?
Opinion
Peoria Academy Journalism Club: College tuition — why must we pay so much?
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Increase in tuition for certain majors, but not others like the new hierarchy at Illinois State University can be disruptive to the delicate balance of education
Make joyful noise and sing!
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Singing is a simple, joyful activity, opening people to one another at various levels in a natural, easy way. The shortest distance between two people is a song!
Peoria Academy Journalism Club: Red and blue make purple
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A pitch for bipartisanship, which is what makes America great, moving forward after we elect our next U.S. president
Peoria Academy Journalism Club: Scary stuff — keys to a safe Halloween
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Tricks and treats: Crimes, especially DUIs, and emergency room visits tend to tick up so be careful this All Hallows’ Eve
Emily Gill: Freedom of speech can also include freedom not to hear it, too
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Does Worker Freedom of Speech Act that Illinois Governor Pritzker signed into law and will take effect on Jan. 1, prevents businesses from sanctioning or punishing employees who decline to attend meetings that put forward the religious or political views of these businesses. Does it adhere to the First Amendment?
PEORIA ACADEMY JOURNALIS CLUB: Quality over quantity? HB4311 and substitute teaching
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Should our schools hire substitute teachers with degrees from non-accredited institutions? What does that do to the quality of our everyday education; maybe we should treat our accredited subs better
OP-ED: Bodily autonomy or not?
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HB3000 filed to eliminate COVID vaccine mandate. Do reasons for choosing not to get vaccinated apply to other areas involving our bodies?
JUSTIN GLAWE: Who’s ready for civil war?
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Online hysteria spawned by conspiracy theory web feeds are creating ‘human political bombs’ among our friends and neighbors
EMILY GILL: Eradicating right to abortion Supreme dilemma in the First
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If the Supreme Court thought that by eradicating the right to abortion, the states would figure things out and the justices would no longer be plagued by cases dealing with abortion, they miscalculated.