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PeoriaCounty200Plus wants your input on future of Peoria

Go to the Peoria County website to submit ideas on the future of unincorporated land use as the government puts together a Comprehensive Land Use Plan. “Public input — genuine input — on the future of Peoria County. What makes you excited? What concerns are there about the future?”

HERE’S TO OUR HEALTH: Heartland Health Services weathering the storms from funding cuts in Washington

In Peoria, Heartland Health Services provides care for about 22,000 patients a year at its 10 locations. That translates to about 260 patient visits each day. Nationwide, recent changes at the federal level mean some centers could face cuts, difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff, or even closing — leaving patients in need to do without or to turn to hospital emergency rooms for critical care.

HERE’S TO OUR HEALTH: Health care needs most bipartisan approach

Ray LaHood, Cheri Bustos and Bob Dold promote bipartisanship as they disuss the shutdown and the politics of what’s at state for the state of health care in America at “The Importance of Bipartisanship” panel discussion sponsored by the Dirksen Congressional Center at Bradley University