UAW targeting automakers’ two-tier wages. Abolition of the two-tier wage system at the “Detroit 3” car companies, raising all workers to the top scale, seems to be the top bargaining goal of the United Auto Workers in opening talks with…
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Neighborhood Notes
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Neighborhood Notes
‘Night Out Against Crime’ Aug. 4. Peoria’s registered neighborhood associations are working on taking part in the Aug. 4 National Night Out Against crime in their areas. “The purpose of Night Out is to promote neighborhood safety by hosting a…
What’s the Evidence?
by David Trachtenbarg, M.D. • • Comments Off on What’s the Evidence?
Prediabetes is a major problem, affecting one-third of all adults in the United States. A preventive program can cut the risk of developing diabetes by half. Although medications can help some people with prediabetes, they are not recommended for most…
Environmental News Briefs
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Dark underside of the Monsanto bid to buy Syngenta When agrichemical giant Monsanto, headquartered in St. Louis, made a $45 billion takeover bid to buy Syngenta, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, it seemed like a chemical tsunami. Between sales of…
Dozens protest outside Campustown payday loan store
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Protesters shouted objections outside a payday loan store in Campustown when they were told Peoria has six times more payday loan stores per capita than Chicago. Organizers of the protest rally from Illinois People’s Action told the group that…
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS BRIEFS
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Ontario first jurisdiction in North America to curb bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. A new rule that goes into effect July 1 will reduce 80 percent of the neonicotinoid-coated corn and soybean seeds planted in the province by 2017. Scientists have…
Peoria pushes EPA for more time to stop dumping raw sewage into Illinois River
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Peoria pushes EPA for more time to stop dumping raw sewage into Illinois River
Pleasure boats speed past the Murray Baker Bridge and jet skis zigzag back and forth across the channel through an area of the Illinois River near downtown Peoria where untreated sewage enters the river during heavy rain. The city would…
Is Rauner’s ‘turnaround’ fair play?
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Is Rauner’s ‘turnaround’ fair play?
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s turnaround agenda could seriously hurt everyday people. And it wouldn’t be a double-whammy. It would be more like a quadruple-whammy. Squared. The Republican’s proposed cuts to human services in particular could weaken everything from health care and…
How much of a “probable human carcinogen” is in your urine?
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on How much of a “probable human carcinogen” is in your urine?
One of the most widely used pesticides in the Peoria area and around the world, applied plentifully by both homeowners and farmers, was labeled a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization recently. Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup,…
DISTRICT 150 SINGS
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on DISTRICT 150 SINGS
Anyone with a brain knows the board and administration of School District 150 is dysfunctional. Too many of their decisions are so ridiculous one has to laugh. I’m still laughing after listening to a jingle produced for the school district…