Author Archive for Bill Knight

Moonlighting: Partnership at airport gift shop has helped adult learners for 10 years

Proceeds from airport gift shop go to the Moonlight Coalition for Adult Learning programs at Logan Recreation Center and Proctor Recreation Center. Originally established in 1994, Moonlight Coalition offers free tutoring and supplies, and covers the $144 testing fee for all students

SCREENS ‘Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on Brink’

The 99-minute documentary tracks hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which is buying newspapers and gutting them. Findings trigger actions across the country by journalists working at newspapers owned by the “vulture capitalists.” Plus more coming to your TV, computer and devices

Bill Knight What are you prepared to do?

BILL KNIGHT

2025 might be the year challenges are too dire to just sit on sidelines. Many journalists hope to do journalism as long as we can. How hard or easy will that be during the next administration?

STAFFING INFECTIONS: Manpower shortages, fiscal woes crippling nursing homes as corporations profit

For months, greater Peoria has seen headlines about Petersen Health Care, 830 W. Trailcreek Dr. in Peoria, which has faced foreclosures and bankruptcy due to hundreds of millions of dollars of unpaid debt. Petersen’s holdings include nursing homes in Iowa,…

Arts Alerts: Screens

Check out what’s streaming and being broadcast on your screens, like “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” on Disney+, a look a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes on PBS, and Lion King prequel “Mufasa” and Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” in theaters. Read all about it