Peoria Journal Star newsroom employees are paid twice what they deserve, a representative of the paper’s owner, GateHouse Media (New Media), told the union in Springfield during negotiations there recently with journalists at the Springfield State Journal-Register. Union employees at…
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Pioneering leader in liberal Christianity challenges many Biblical interpretations and will speak in Peoria about new theology
by Michael Brown • • 1 Comment
BY MICHAEL BROWN John Shelby Spong, a global and pioneering leader in liberal Christianity, is scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. Saturday April 9 at the Universalist Unitarian Church, 3000 W. Richwoods. Tickets can be purchased at the door or…
by Community Word Staff • • 0 Comments
Purge Continues With the March 15 election, voters continued to make changes on the District 150 school board. Dan Walther will be seated as District 3 representative. He replaces one timer Rick Cloyd. Cloyd will be remembered for trying to…
Technology comes with benefits, but a price
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
A Peorian in his 60s talks about his having turned library trash into flea-market treasure by retrieving hundreds of books discarded into dumpsters during remodeling or conversion from traditional libraries to public computer labs where teens watch YouTube videos. The…
Islamic Foundation of Peoria hosts interfaith discussion on diversity
by Clare Howard • • 9 Comments
The public is invited for a meal and discussion from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 7 at Islamic Foundation of Peoria, 823 W. Salaam Drive. “We want to challenge the notion that Muslims are strange and mosques are closed,”…
Fairbanks leaving neighborhoods active
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Whether emptying street-corner trash cans or settling into an emptying office, Steve Fairbanks’ sigh and smile greet visitors like a guy with secrets he’s eager to share. This time of year has featured “States of” speeches — the Union, the…
State’s attorney declines to reopen Heidelberg case
by Clare Howard • • 3 Comments
Peoria County State’s Attorney Jerry Brady said he will not reopen a case that sent Cleve Heidelberg to prison 45 years ago despite information from a Chicago attorney and local investigator that the police investigation and prosecution of the case…
Peoria’s “revolving door of poison” — Childhood lead poisoning devastates families & communities
by Clare Howard • • 0 Comments
Flint, Mich., pushed childhood lead poisoning onto a national stage, but Peoria’s lead poisoning levels are equally “frightening” and will hurt Peoria for generations to come, one health care provider said. “We have a revolving door of poison,” said Dr.…
POLITICAL BULL
by Roger Monroe • • 1 Comment
With that headline, readers will probably think I’m going to talk about the presidential debates, Republican and Democrat. Not so. I’m referring to those local and area office holders who’ve been on television and in the newspaper talking about helping…
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Five years after the publication of Peorian John Kelly’s “The Other Law of Moses,” the 250-page paperback seems as relevant as ever. Progressive populist Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and college debt; conservative populist Donald Trump rails about overpriced…