The Peoria area lost 2,800 jobs between July 2013 and July 2014, when its percentage of employed people fell 1.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics second-quarter report, but the five-county metro area is stable overall, says Bernard…
Everyday people might understandably fear West Nile Virus or Ebola, but a new report in the Annual Review of Public Health journal says it may be smarter to fret about policymakers’ decisions and wasteful health-care spending – which haven’t meant…
The mere accumulation of facts doesn’t always lead to good conclusions, judgment or wisdom. Too many of us, progressive and conservative alike, can fall victim to extrapolation or correlation. An example of extrapolation is extending some inference based on…
Job loss and poverty seem to be feared in the United States, maybe with good reason. However, maybe Americans would be wise to also fear the pride that can distort our perspective, and what should be our power. Novelist, Guggenheim…
Must local arts and entertainment be another attraction used to promote potential visitors to be valid, to have value? This month’s arts festival IGNITE Peoria! at the Civic Center on Saturday, August 9 seems to be an admirable endeavor: part…
Last month, a progressive actor equally at ease playing a ne’er-do-well gambler, private eye or astronaut died: James Garner. He was the best among favorite actors – and still lives on old black-and-white western reruns. As he recounted in his…
Private schools Tuition/fees per year Bradley University … $29,300 Eureka College … $19,600 Robert Morris University … $22,200 Public institutions Tuition/fees per year Illinois Central College … $7,100 Illinois State University … $18,700 University of Illinois/Springfield … $13,300 SOURCE: American…
(Middle-age woman in an old-style, gingham dress seated at a table, talking on an old-fashioned phone) G- Clara? Aunt G. Did you get your paper? Me neither. It’s getting so thin, you’d think it’d get easier to deliver. What’s that?…
If State’s Attorney Jerry Brady was U.S. Attorney General, common sense might prevail in the Justice Department and more banking gangsters – “banksters” – would be prosecuted for their crimes. May 1 is Law Day, and this month is a…
Photojournalists Renee C. Byer and Paul Kitagaki Jr. will have their photography on exhibit at Bradley University’s Hartmann Center Gallery April 14-29, and appear for a lecture and reception in Bradley’s Michel Student Center Ballroom on April 17.
