The Peoria Police investigation into WTVP-TV Channel 47 found four areas of concern: unauthorized allocation of funds, credit cards, questionable reimbursements, luxury items
PEORIA ACADEMY JOURNALIS CLUB: Quality over quantity? HB4311 and substitute teaching
Should our schools hire substitute teachers with degrees from non-accredited institutions? What does that do to the quality of our everyday education; maybe we should treat our accredited subs better
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: American is ready and reindustrializing
Inflation Reduction Act — the Obamacare of the Biden administration — and CHIPS Act has put American manufacturing on solid footing for future
Straight Talk: Radio still shaking up; Reynolds for president?
WMBD 1470 is struggling with its afternoon broadcasting block so it brought in John Malone and Phil Luciano; Ray LaHood reports on Bradley search; and thank God for the Olympics with all this crime going on
The Watch: Peoria County insists on new landfill; Salvation Army gets grant
Does new Dunlap High School facility need a pool? Sanitary District sees increase in past due bills; League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria observers attend and report on local government meetings
West Peoria News: Get good eats, play some golf for our Fire House
Trillium Place presentation set for West Peoria Residents Association on Sept. 19; Bank of Farmington live ATM up and running; West Peoria Golf Classic scheduled for Oct. 12
LABOR! Caterpillar plant in Mexico draws complaint
WIU lays off about 1/4 of unionized faculty; AFL-CIO president slams GOP anti-worker ticket; U of I nurses vote to strike; Deere layoffs ‘kill good American jobs’
BILL KNIGHT: A creepy horror story lies in Project 2025
A YouGov poll in July showed 39% of U.S. adult citizens oppose Project 2025, but 42% have heard nothing about it. However, “Americans are starting to learn about this extreme takeover plan for Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans to quickly dismantle checks and balances, amass unprecedented presidential power, and seize total control over our government and our individual freedoms”
XAVIER JACKSON: A little love will go a long way, especially from the Christian crowd
Our entire life is a quest for love. At least it should be. But many in the “Love Thy Neighbor” crowd seem to have lost sight of that message. These religious zealots have forgotten this essential ingredient; so do they even know their God?
PAUL GORDON: Learn what happens, and tell your friends, if Project 2025 goes live
GOP claims its doesn’t know anything about horrifying Heritage Foundation plan, but let’s see what they don’t want you to know
Prison state: $900M locked up in Illinois
Judge rules Stateville inmates must be moved despite plans to rebuild prison as well as Logan; but some of those inmates have better ideas for what to do with the money
MAGA? Here’s an America we should make great again
What we really need to do is go back to a time that wasn’t too long ago, when we held our president to a higher standard
ARTS ALERTS: The Illinois Art League showing at Time Gallery; “The Hope Chest” and “This Beautiful Mess” showing at Contemporary Art Center, “River of Painted Birds” at Art Guild
Open mic “Whisper and Shout,” returns to Contemporary Art Center; annual Art & Craft Fair, rain or shine, at the Hayloft Shops in Mossville; Peoria Art Guild’s Fine Art Fair scheduled for Sept. 28- 29 on the Riverfront; “Artrageous” comes to Five Points Washington; “Music in the Park,” hosted by Fon Du Lac library; plus classes, lectures and what’s on your screens
Inland Art: Looney Tuned
Genius of Ken Hoffman has created innumerable, brutally honest pieces, each filled with emotion; Go see him on display
Yamas & Niyamas: The Hindu Ten Commandments?
Reflections for a Hindu Perspective: Yogasutra — ancient wisdom — offers
a more universal set than the Biblical Ten
Nature Rambles: Nature of nostalgia reveals reality of our environment
Return trip to old stomping grounds at Wisconsin-Stevens Point reveals forest’s journey through time
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: Time to take climate science to court
Tort reform: Extreme weather attribution science can pinpoint damages of natural disasters to industrial causes of climate change
Labor roundup: Area loses ‘Lion of Labor’
Steamfitter Local 353’s Larry Dawson was 81; strikers settle with Illinois American Water; AFL-CIO endorses Harris for president
WCBU: No new landfill for another 15 years? County doesn’t think so
Despite contract to build Landfill #3, GFL pivots to using transfer station in Hopedale