by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Arts Alerts: Check out cool comedy scene, new shows at Peoria Players, Cornstock and more
Hilarious Heywood Banks brings his zany genius to Jukebox Comedy Club; Peoria Pops Orchestra playing St. Patrick’s Day set March 9 at ICC; Central Illinois Jazz Society presents John Miller & the Romaniacs on March 24 at Trailside Event Center
by Mike Miller • • Comments Off on Nature Rambles: Chemicals trespass — some things are in the air
Herbicides and pesticides like Dicamba and 2,4-D are cross-contaminating neighboring crops and surrounding plant life. And we do not know what long-term effect this will have on our landscape
by William Rau • • Comments Off on Heat Waves — In Red & Black: U.S. mixing it up in War in Ukraine
Providing Ukraine with our military aid/technology also improves our own security. It allows the U.S. to restock what we send from our armories with new, often with more advanced, replacements. Have Republicans forgotten this?
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Arts Alerts: Cool music scene for cabin fever; nice playbill at area theaters
Revel in Red playing Five Points; ‘Something Rotten’ at Peoria Players; ‘Significant Other’ at Corn Stock; ICC Performing Arts Center doing ‘Women Playing ‘Hamlet’; Sam Miller will go at the Jukebox Comedy Club; ‘FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art’ at Riverfront Museum
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: WTVP fall guys were not at fault for TV station’s downfall
Why not ask the management of the three stations to serve on the management team? Maybe consider asking one of the stations to loan an administrator to be an interim CEO for one year.
by Mike Miller • • Comments Off on Nature Rambles: Ancient branches swirl into our past and future
If left to its own devises, the old oak, which spans 10 generations, could easily outlive several more. Perhaps the fact that it is still standing says something about an improvement in our environmental ethics.
by William Rau • • Comments Off on Heat Waves — In Red & Black: As the world burns, Ethanol helps fuel the fire
Unintended consequences rear their ugly head with the profligate promotion of ‘clean’ corn fuel that has turned the crop into a net negative for the environment