Our once great republic is in its death throes. Indifference among us in our American Republic is overwhelming it; make a stand this November
XAVIER JACKSON: Requiem for America
by Xavier Jackson • • 0 Comments
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PAUL GORDON: Take credit: The Dow is Cat’s Meow
by Paul Gordon • • 0 Comments
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
BILL KNIGHT: Exceptional ‘everyman,’ former White Sox skipper ‘Pants’ Rowland is a Peoria legend
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Former Distillers manager Rowland, who carved out career in early days of baseball, should be recognized among Peoria ‘Sports Legends’
Bill Knight: Straws are piling up on the back of support for Israel
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
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
Paul Gordon: Wake up — for He is as woke as woke can be
by Paul Gordon • • 0 Comments
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.
Bill Knight: This White Sox bid means more corporate welfare
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
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.
Bill Knight: Wistful visit to Northwoods like many malls of America
by Bill Knight • • 2 Comments
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
Paul Gordon: Seven deadly sins? Evangelicals choice does them all
by Paul Gordon • • 0 Comments
What is even one saving grace of this guy? That he’s conveniently conservative? Doesn’t all the bad the man does (his lying, poor treatment of women, fraud, racism, support of fascist ideology) trump his claim he alone got Roe v. Wade overturned? None of this makes me feel our democracy would be safe in his hands; how about you?
Bill Knight: Miss Laveine takes stock in her history
by Bill Knight • • 3 Comments
‘Her white hair accented by black frame glasses and earrings, Birditt glows in a living room as warm as the winter weather outside is arctic.’ Longtime local educator Laveine Birditt reflects on her ‘respectable treatment,’ good trouble, and the ways we have to go for Black History Month
Inland Art: Picture this true treasure ‘hidden’ in Tremont
by Lisa Nelson Raabe • • 0 Comments
Nichole Gronvold-Roller contours the edges of our surroundings. the geometry of human organization, of perspective of our way of negotiating the land around us. She pits that geometry against the interior world of household domesticity — it’s decor and lived-in architecture.