A couple weeks ago I was whining to friends about how I used to vote for candidates from both parties. In politics, talk is cheap, so I look for those who have a positive voting record in support of clean…
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How to advertise and subscribe
by Community Word Staff • • 1 Comment
Subscribe to Community Word Subscriptions to Community Word are available for $20 a year. Send check to: Community Word, 400 NE Jefferson St. #400, Peoria, IL 61603. Advertise In Community Word Community Word is published monthly and reaches about 17,000 readers…
Why raise the minimum wage?
by Clare Howard • • 0 Comments
Raise it to stimulate the economy. Raise it for economic justice. Raise it to tell Springfield and Washington you want public policy based on honest analysis, not partisan brinkmanship. Raise it to tell WalMart you’re tired of subsiding its profits.…
Why legalize recreational marijuana?
by Clare Howard • • 0 Comments
Illinois has legalized medical uses of marijuana as part of a pilot program, but recreational marijuana remains illegal in the state. Colorado, on the other hand, legalized medical marijuana in 2000 and recreational marijuana eight months ago. Colorado has not…
IGNITEPeoria! — and keep the fire burning
by Bill Knight • • 1 Comment
Must local arts and entertainment be another attraction used to promote potential visitors to be valid, to have value? This month’s arts festival IGNITE Peoria! at the Civic Center on Saturday, August 9 seems to be an admirable endeavor: part…
Guest editorials for December 2013
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Valuing Water’s True Worth By Karla Olson Teasley, Illinois American Water President How many times do you use water, directly or indirectly in a given day? Ten? Twenty? More? You’ve probably never thought about it. Yet, you’ve come to expect…
Editorials
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One Plantation at a Time! Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL Those of us who participated in, and lived through the struggles to enact the Civil Rights Act of the ‘60s, remember well the unwillingness of many who did not support…
No Greater Love
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by Ed Klein, Peoria, IL I’d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Republican party for doing what few – if any – have been able to do before. What, you may well ask, is that?…
Editorials for January 2011
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January 22nd Marks 38th Anniversary of Roe v Wade by Debbie Adlof, Editor/Owner Community Word, Peoria, IL It’s no secret that our great country of America has always sought and/or fought to grant freedom to its people. In the beginning,…
A Moment of Silence at School
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By Delores Klein, Peoria, IL District 150 has renewed the debate about prayer in schools by talk of re-instating a “Moment of Silence.” Public discussion always seems to be phrased as if only Jewish and Muslim citizens or atheists would…