Our statement highlights LaHood’s condemnation of peacefully protesting the onslaught in Gaza, and Netanyahu’s invitation to address Congress. That message was lost in a News25 segment. Rather, it highlighted our critique of the Congressman’s past statements saying Israel has the right to defend itself and committing to returning hostages
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PEORIA ACADEMY JOURNALIS CLUB: Quality over quantity? HB4311 and substitute teaching
by Peoria Academy Journalism Club • • 0 Comments
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
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OP-ED: Ranked Choice Voting gives more power back to the electorate
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“Should the State of Illinois adopt ranked choice voting — a system which gives voters the opportunity to rank multiple choices in a process that ensures the winner has gained approval by the majority of voters, allows voters to vote their true preference, gets rid of the ‘spoiler effect,’ and encourages more positive campaigning — for statewide and federal elections.”
OP-ED: Bodily autonomy or not?
by Peoria Academy Journalism Club • • 0 Comments
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
PEORIA ACADEMY JOURNALISM CLUB: HB2998 To monitor or not to monitor assisted living homes
by Peoria Academy Journalism Club • • 0 Comments
Would you like to be monitored for abuse prevention reasons if you or someone else can’t monitor you? HB2998 would be a positive. However, regarding privacy, I don’t think monitoring is fair to people who don’t like being watched
EMILY GILL: Eradicating right to abortion Supreme dilemma in the First
by Emily Gill • • 0 Comments
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.
Letters: Funding the war machine, Speaker Johnson, is the easy part
by Burt Raabe • • 0 Comments
“We have always been at war with Eurasia,” — 1984, George Orwell
Crime rates in Peoria and public safety
by Peoria Academy Journalism Club • • 0 Comments
Many intertwining issues — including inflation and poverty — can contribute to spikes in crime in our community