Illinois Department of Public Health’s 2nd Quarterly Report showed 13 facilities cited for violations, with fines totaling $143,600.
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Public media: More government aid, more imagination, and less corporate funding would help
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Public media: More government aid, more imagination, and less corporate funding would help
The United States spends $3 per person on radio/TV, Canada puts up $33, the United Kingdom $97 and Germany $124
Nature Rambles: Seeds of hope help our prairies
by Mike Miller • • Comments Off on Nature Rambles: Seeds of hope help our prairies
If you want to restore natural areas, you must depend on seeds. Vast prairies once covered the Illinois landscape. Bit by bit, those prairies were converted by agriculture. In a period of a couple of hundred years, our vast prairies were replaced by fields of crop seeds. If we hope to save the prairie for future generations, we must become familiar with the plants, their seeds, and how to propagate them.
Isn’t it time to get our shot together?
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Isn’t it time to get our shot together?
COVID has become more and more ‘commonplace’, but the virus is still a danger so consider getting the jabs
In the beginning, she was the Word and the Word was hers
by Brian Ludwig • • Comments Off on In the beginning, she was the Word and the Word was hers
Local provocateur Patricia Kenny — New Yorker, Irishwoman born into English aristocracy transplanted in Peoria — founded the West Bluff Word, which fueled her fire for civil disobedience
WCBU: City stance on encampments ‘Dangerous step backwards’
by Joe Deacon of WCBU, Peoria Public Radio • • Comments Off on WCBU: City stance on encampments ‘Dangerous step backwards’
‘A Flood of Creatures’ is back in the forecast with another star-studded cast for October
by contributor • • Comments Off on ‘A Flood of Creatures’ is back in the forecast with another star-studded cast for October
Area favorite musical by Edith Barnard will include Mayor Rita Ali, Ray LaHood and George Stelluto
Prison state: $900M locked up in Illinois
by Brian Ludwig • • Comments Off on Prison state: $900M locked up in Illinois
Judge rules Stateville inmates must be moved despite plans to rebuild prison as well as Logan; but some of those inmates have better ideas for what to do with the money
American Doom lurks among us: Beware extremist terror
by Justin Glawe • • Comments Off on American Doom lurks among us: Beware extremist terror
Arrest of right-wing extremist Dalton Mattus in Pekin last May after he was found with pipe bombs reveals real threat of terrorism among us
Straight Talk: Get out, and go to the Heart of Illinois Fair
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: Get out, and go to the Heart of Illinois Fair
The 75th edition is scheduled for July 16-20 at Exposition Gardens. And I can remember when it all started in 1945 when the group Peoria District Fair purchased 160 acres of the Walter Poppen Farm and completed the incredible ‘Operation Earthmoving’