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
Straight Talk: What in the world is going at WEEK-TV?
Congratulations to Mike McCoy and everybody who helped raise a record $11,659,937 for the
St. Jude Telethon; Park District spending $4.5 million to renovate the existing Golf Learning Center, but what about a music venue? And our fair has to try harder
ARTS ALERTS: ‘Ignite Peoria’ at Civic Center, Italian American Fest at Hickory Grove; Jazz at Trailside, First United Methodist Church
Corn Stock presents “Nine” and “The Mousetrap” and Peoria Players perform “Mean Girls: High School Version” plus Art Guild offering all kinds of classes
ARTS ALERTS: Meanwhile, why can’t we see these films?
Controversial ‘The Apprentice’ about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn; “Green Border” on the crisis of immigrating refugees; and “The Smell of Money” about Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in North Carolina are being held from theaters
Waiting on audit, WTVP may train to reach viewers
Public TV station looking to find its niche in streaming services
The Watch: American Rescue Plan funds, racial justice are on the dockets
League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria observers attend and report on local government meetings.
Mayor Ali facing at least one challenger
John Kelly, who was voted to City Council with Rita Ali, throwing his hat into ring for April election
West Peoria News: Our beautiful trees are more than just scenery
Peoria Garden Club celebrating 100th anniversary; Peoria Rugby Club helping start a program in West Peoria; Troop 11 Ice Cream Social this month
BILL KNIGHT: SAVE our students from crippling debt, help boost economy
Republican states blocking administration efforts to ease burden of student loans; but there’s an easy fix that helps both those with loans and taxpayers
PAUL GORDON: Energy to boot Joe needs to shift focus to MAGA manifestos
Kamala Harris takes over for Joe Biden to lead Democratic ticket against Donald Trump in one ugly season of politics; research Project 2025 and Agenda47
OP-ED: Ranked Choice Voting gives more power back to the electorate
“Should the State of Illinois adopt ranked choice voting — a system which gives voters the opportunity to rank multiple choices in a process that ensures the winner has gained approval by the majority of voters, allows voters to vote their true preference, gets rid of the ‘spoiler effect,’ and encourages more positive campaigning — for statewide and federal elections.”
OP-ED: Bodily autonomy or not?
HB3000 filed to eliminate COVID vaccine mandate. Do reasons for choosing not to get vaccinated apply to other areas involving our bodies?
American Doom lurks among us: Beware extremist terror
Arrest of right-wing extremist Dalton Mattus in Pekin last May after he was found with pipe bombs reveals real threat of terrorism among us
JUSTIN GLAWE: Who’s ready for civil war?
Online hysteria spawned by conspiracy theory web feeds are creating ‘human political bombs’ among our friends and neighbors
Storm warning: 50 years of tornado science
Data shows that climate change has moved Illinois into heart of Tornado Alley with 141 twisters in Tri-County area since 1950
Inland Art: Salt, fire, ceramics
Professor Randall Carlson has been running the kilns with care for Bradley University. His salt firing demands constant monitoring, precise adjustments, and extensive preparation to deliver earthy tones, with traces of copper and iron
WCBU: Protection in Peoria for Planned Parenthood
Radio station there as Rep. Eric Sorenson joins area lawmakers at reopening of fire-bombed clinic
Labor roundup: UAW cries foul with Mercedes-Benz
Union claims automaker interfered with vote; second Portillo’s, another Starbucks, unionize; doctors in Delaware file union paperwork
Straight Talk: Get out, and go to the Heart of Illinois Fair
The 75th edition is scheduled for July 16-20 at Exposition Gardens. And I can remember when it all started in 1945 when the group Peoria District Fair purchased 160 acres of the Walter Poppen Farm and completed the incredible ‘Operation Earthmoving’