Patient Rights Advocate claims local hospitals Carle, OSF are noncompliant; price data hard to find
Are our hospital prices complete? Watchdog weighs in
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Need help managing money? Use the Busey Bank Bridge
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Bridge Center on SW Adams is a ‘financial literacy lab’ looking to be beacon of hope in community banking. It emphasizes the little things that can make a difference — encouraging prudent practices and cautioning about how mountains of debt can be created from the molehills of credit cards, money orders and payday loans.
Jackson: Confidence in our future is hanging on our fears
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The citizens of our nation — White and Black — seem unwilling to aspire to America’s ideals even though we all proclaim to love liberty, justice and equality. … Equal citizenship under the Constitution is a mirage that Blacks have wandered towards for generations across a desert of institutionalized persecution
RODGER THAT: You’re either a Finch or ‘your’ a Ewell
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If we learned one thing from Jan. 6, 2021, it’s why they are not called the “Proud Men.” … I’m far less likely to be shot during a robbery or home invasion than during a heated debate over concealed carry. … If you “fact check” Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” it comes back “Pants on fire.”
Heat Waves — in Red & Black: What’s next? Winters with hunger
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Extreme weather from summer of discontent — from climate change and Ukraine War, for example — has decimated crops worldwide
Labor roundup: Illinois gives ‘permatemp’ workers raise; Warner Bros. pays big wigs
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Illinois’ new law gives 640k ‘temp’ workers a raise; Google subcontractor fires most staffers for unionizing; dozens of nurses represented by the Illinois Nurses Association are fighting short-staffing and unsafe working conditions
Bill Knight: Proposed CO2 pipeline appears problematic
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“Public Good?” Farmers, environmentalists (taxpayers, perhaps?) rallying against Navigator, Wolf Carbon putting CO2 pipes into their land
Million-dollar advocates forums tab Peoria lawyer Doug Stephens
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Attorney G. Douglas Stephens last month was certified as a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the trial-lawyers group announced. Membership in the organization is limited to attorneys who have won million…
Appeals Court upholds decision for Schock, LaHood and GOP
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Despite spreading rumors about candidate, malice was not proved by former candidate Richard Burns
Nature Rambles: ‘Fluddle Stompers’ flock to unique puddle ponds
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If there is ample rain to create fluddles, many of the shorebirds {sandpipers, plovers, and their kin) will drop into these fleeting pools to feed during the day.