The Peoria Chapter of the National Organization for Women has joined with other individuals and organizations in supporting the Peoria Public library employees in their requests for a new contract. Though they are city employees, library workers do not enjoy…
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Op-Ed: Ten commandments that should wake up the anti-woke
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Across the country, states are legislating an “anti-woke” agenda. Imagine my surprise when I learned of the Texas legislation that would require all classrooms K-12 to post the Ten Commandments. Taking this bold step, Texans are not just rebuking the…
Poetry: The Romantics, 1966; Main and Flora
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Big old building with small apartments. Mine was one room, furnished, tiny kitchen, tiny bathroom, I inherited from a Chicago friend. He left his posters — Che Guevara, Malcolm X, a Picasso, and a Miles Davis album. Soc. 101 for…
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Editorial: Great reads, Sandra — Serendipity, indeed
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It’s the little things that make the moments of our lives extra special. And it takes a big heart to fill them with love. Serendipity. That’s what Sandra Dempsey Post provided for readers for more than 40 years all over…
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Letter to the editor: Jan. 30, 2023: Martyr’s Day in India
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Dr. Mandar Pattekar’s article in the last Community Word gave a good review of how indigenous and ancient traditions have been persecuted and all but wiped out around the world, especially under imperial regimes. The United States allowed slavery to…
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OP-ED: The Virtue of Hypocrisy
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“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, a seventeenth-century French writer and moralist, meant that people who disguise their less-than-worthy thoughts in their speech and writing are implicitly admitting that there is a…