The League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria observers attend and report on local government meetings.
The Watch: Water safety, security, sales under scrutiny; City Aurthur Mae Perkins honored
Peoria County OKs budget; City starts its deliberations
Peoria County does not raise property taxes; City Council has until Dec. 26
There seem to have been some warning signs at WTVP
Tax records filed in May showed contributions and grants
from last year were down $303,625, expenses up $524,322
Are our hospital prices complete? Watchdog weighs in
Patient Rights Advocate claims local hospitals Carle, OSF are noncompliant; price data hard to find
Need help managing money? Use the Busey Bank Bridge
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
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
Inland Art: Artistudio — Peoria area women artists created a culture
In Peoria in the 1970s, a group of women artists collectively met and established the Artistudio. … These women were not only creative but were leaders in the Peoria area for many years. All of these women were career professionals who enriched our community with talents beyond simple creativity.
RODGER THAT: You’re either a Finch or ‘your’ a Ewell
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
Extreme weather from summer of discontent — from climate change and Ukraine War, for example — has decimated crops worldwide
Poetry: As the Planet Warmed for Greta Thunberg
The Anointed One descended from his tower. The huddled masses saw his health, his wealth, his power. He had a glow. He had a glower. Throughout the land the people had been in a funk, they had turned to junk.…
Poetry: Autumn Monarch
Had I a poet’s way with words when I was 15 and had seen, she at ten, too, the new waitress, at the Candy Kitchen, I, the lone customer at the back table, a nobody but she had smiled at…
Labor roundup: Illinois gives ‘permatemp’ workers raise; Warner Bros. pays big wigs
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
“Public Good?” Farmers, environmentalists (taxpayers, perhaps?) rallying against Navigator, Wolf Carbon putting CO2 pipes into their land
Letters: Sheriffs, aren’t children worth more than guns?
Illinois still has 30 sheriffs refusing to enforce legislation signed by Gov. Pritzker banning assault weapons and the sale of high-capacity magazines.
Ex-County Auditor’s lawsuit remains frozen, pending appeal
Peoria Auditor Jessica Thomas’ lawyer Justin Penn is seeking more than $40,000 for his mounting hourly fees and reimbursement for expenses.
Million-dollar advocates forums tab Peoria lawyer Doug Stephens
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
Despite spreading rumors about candidate, malice was not proved by former candidate Richard Burns
Nature Rambles: ‘Fluddle Stompers’ flock to unique puddle ponds
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.
The Lion’s Den: Our children can feel difference between what’s good and bad
Historic “Doll Tests” conducted by Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark in New York helped Americans realize disadvantages of segregation across the nation
Straight Talk: COVID funding folly is ‘curing violence’?
It makes no sense. The health department has no experience or credentials to “cure violence.” Yet, it was handed $400,000 by the City Council with a pat on the back and the battle call, “go fight crime.”
The Watch: Officials following up on plans of attack — strategic, infrastructure …
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