I think it is safe to say that everyone is aware that the State of Illinois is broke. Christopher Koch, The Illinois Superintendent of Education, has stated that state aid to schools will be reduced. School districts are reducing staff…
By Katie Goveia, Peoria, IL YOU CAN’T CHECK THE FEELING OF LIKING THE SAME SEX!!!!!! Just because someone chooses to like the same sex, that doesn’t change who they are at heart. You could talk to them before you found…
There Goes the Neighborhood By Ed Klein, Peoria, IL What do you do when you find out that two guys living down the street turn out to be homos? They’ve been living there together for five years and I never…
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…
Have They No Shame? By Ed Klein, Peoria, IL As we watched Ted Cruz in his outlandish demagoguery, we were certainly not alone in comparing him to the late Joe McCarthy. As with Cruz, his fellow congressmen foolishly let him…
Machiavelli’d Be Proud of Them By Ed Klein Republican Ted Cruze and several of his accomplices say they’d like to eliminate minimum wage laws. Other Republican intellects complain that people are taking advantage of unemployment insurance because it pays more…
By Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL I’m sure the Suffragists were an ongoing “pain in the neck,” during all those years from when Abigail Adams pleaded with the framers of the Constitution to “remember the ladies … regard us as…
