I hope this year’s student activists make a difference, endure difficulties, and find common ground with their current antagonists. As the Chambers Brothers sang in 1967, ‘Time Has Come Today.’
If the Supreme Court thought that by eradicating the right to abortion, the states would figure things out and the justices would no longer be plagued by cases dealing with abortion, they miscalculated.
Yom HaShoah service to remember Holocaust at Peoria Riverfront Museum reveals reality of how war affects our shores
Our once great republic is in its death throes. Indifference among us in our American Republic is overwhelming it; make a stand this November
Don’t listen to empty promises or absurd claims, such as Trump claiming the reason the stock markets are setting records is because investors are anticipating his return to the White House. … It’s not the stock prices consumers (meaning voters) watch; rather it’s gas prices and grocery bills and the like
Former Distillers manager Rowland, who carved out career in early days of baseball, should be recognized among Peoria ‘Sports Legends’
The rage and regret at Biden’s virtually unqualified support for Netanyahu’s war has been building for months. Primary voting data shows Muslim Americans, progressives, young voters, Democrats and more than a few Jews (in the United States and the world) have objected, demonstrated and organized to pressure Biden
It seems the political right takes umbrage with the term “being woke” because it challenges people to take actions to right injustices.
Conservatives don’t like to be told they aren’t doing everything they can to help those being treated unfairly. So they chastise woke people and consider them the annoying minority.
Most studies say subsidies aren’t supported by claims of economic development, job creation or promised growth. Using public funds to enrich private ventures by wealthy owners takes money from infrastructure, public services and other needs.
Stopping at the mall on a winter day, there were familiar sights, such as seniors enjoying a walk and a sense of community, illusion or not. … Northwoods is markedly different than years past, but there are no Illinois tumbleweeds bouncing through a virtual ghost town
