Last month, I discussed a recent study published in Science Magazine concerning the real threat to migratory birds being posed by the increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Unfortunately, birders throughout Illinois are still experiencing a lack of birds. I just…
Columns
Bill Knight | Humans aren’t hopeless on climate change
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Bill Knight | Humans aren’t hopeless on climate change
Earth is at a “doom and bloom” point. While news almost daily reports dangers such as ozone threats to corn crops (University of Illinois reported last month), positives occur like the Pasta Straw (produced from bucatini by the U.K.’s Stroodles…
Serendipity | Sister’s birthday
by Sandra Dempsey Post • • Comments Off on Serendipity | Sister’s birthday
Sibling rivalry was not an issue for me when I was growing up. Not that I was so angelic that I skipped it, but there are 8.5 years between my older sister and me. When I started kindergarten, she was…
Reflections From A Hindu Perspective | Lighting the light within
by Dr. Mandar Pattekar • • Comments Off on Reflections From A Hindu Perspective | Lighting the light within
My family has had some ancestors who were highly spiritually evolved individuals. My paternal grandmother’s father was a householder yogi (yogi- one who seeks union of individual consciousness with the Universal consciousness) who held a day job as a government…
Views & Perspectives | Reflections about Sept. 11, 2001
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Views & Perspectives | Reflections about Sept. 11, 2001
As I sit here today on Sept. 11, 2019, I am reflecting on Sept. 11, 2001, a day that so many friends and neighbors and I remember vividly and will never forget. I was a very proud member of Congress…
Straight Talk | Victory for MIA/POW families
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk | Victory for MIA/POW families
It took the Illinois General Assembly and Governor JB Pritzker to give Peoria Airports Director Gene Olson and his board a dose of decency and moral direction, but the battle over the MIA/POW flag is just that, over. The flag…
The Watch | Observers of local government
by Terry Bibo • • Comments Off on The Watch | Observers of local government
At opposite ends of the room — and the issue — two county board members snorted like bulls prepared to charge. They yelled. They pounded their fists on the table. They locked horns verbally, if not physically. You think watching…
Nature Rambles | Silent Autumn
by Mike Miller • • Comments Off on Nature Rambles | Silent Autumn
As summer wanes, a September harvest moon rises over the eastern horizon on a beautiful Friday the 13th. The winds have turned, and come from the northwest, bringing in cool breezes. During this time of year, under these conditions, birders…
Real Talk | Post fear of prior trauma
by Kamara Taylor • • Comments Off on Real Talk | Post fear of prior trauma
How does trauma impact our lives? How do we get over fear that events that harmed us in the past now play on the anxiety over our future? With my daily interactions with people, there is so much pain that…
Inland Art | Jonathan Higgins
by Paul Krainak • • Comments Off on Inland Art | Jonathan Higgins
Jonathan Higgins, artist and master printmaker and his wife printmaker Sarah Smelser have owned Manneken Press in Bloomington, Illinois, for 17 years. The press was founded in 2000 in Morgantown, W.Va., as an independent press where Sarah landed her first…