Journal Star is in the mail? That has to be devastating to readers. Wish we all could be like Ed Parker
Straight Talk: Silence only stirs up stigma of suicide
Art Alerts: Peoria Symphony performing ‘Joy of Grace,’ Peoria Players staging ‘The Music Man,’ Cornstock doing ‘The Aliens’
Metamora comic Jeff Bailey headlining at the Jukebox Comedy Club Nov. 3-4. Central Illinois Jazz Society says Todd Kelly’s Central Illinois Jazz Orchestra will play Nov. 19 at the Trailside Center.
The Lion’s Den: Black Horror films mirror minority life and its horrific reality
The Jordan Peele book ‘Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror’ and documentary ‘Horror Noir: A History of Black Horror’ illustrate why the Black guy was first to die in Hollywood
West Peoria News: Demolition next step in the evolution of our new West Peoria City Hall
New banking options may be included around site of old bank building; Christmas Tree gets lit Nov. 27
Community Foundation of Central Illinois grants Freedom House $15K
Money will benefit youth touched by domestic, sexual violence
Big bash restores faith in Madison Theater
Bell tolls for polls
Myriad voting concerns, disinformation are depressing election-judge numbers, according to the Peoria Election Commission
The Watch: Water safety, security, sales under scrutiny; City Aurthur Mae Perkins honored
The League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria observers attend and report on local government meetings.
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.