February marks Black History Month, when Americans remember the heroic Crispus Attucks and George Washington Carver, daring women such as Harriett Tubman and Rosa Parks, and stalwart figures ranging from Frederick Douglass to Peoria’s own Dr. Romeo B. Garrett. Less…
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Welcome to America
by Sherry Cannon • • Comments Off on Welcome to America
Reprinted with permission from The Traveler Weekly Recently, five friends and I booked a trip to Cancun through Peoria Charter Coach Tours. In all, 21 of us traveled by charter bus to O’Hare International Airport to fly to Cancun. Our…
Farmers markets — use them or lose them
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Farmers markets — use them or lose them
Henry Brockman sees a downturn in sales at the farmers market in Evanston. Jimmy Buckley sees a downturn in Peoria. Lyndon Hartz has seen the downturn. He has pulled out of the Downtown Bloomington Market and focused on Peoria. These…
College Campuses “Ground Zero” for Racist Recruitment
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on College Campuses “Ground Zero” for Racist Recruitment
White nationalist organizations are targeting college campuses recruiting students to their racist ideologies. The groups often obscure their real purpose in pseudo-intellectual rhetoric and demand protection under the First Amendment freedom of speech. “College campuses are ground zero for recruitment,”…
Silica sand – in the air, water, lungs and frac drills
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Silica sand – in the air, water, lungs and frac drills
Thomas and Diane Skomski moved to Wedron in rural LaSalle County in 2003 to recuperate close to nature after Thomas suffered a massive stroke. They purchased a beautiful 23-acre property bordered by Indian Creek with sheer limestone cliffs and bluffs…
50 feet of snow? POSSIBLE! Thank Climate Change
by Terry Bibo • • Comments Off on 50 feet of snow? POSSIBLE! Thank Climate Change
Connect the dots. • By the end of November, 4.7 million Americans had registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to the Washington Post. That’s 10 times more than all of 2016. • Hurricane Harvey set…
Undoing Racism
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Undoing Racism
Racism is a learned behavior and undoing racism is a learned behavior. One of the country’s leading scholars on undoing racism will be speaking in Peoria Jan. 22 at Bradley University. David Billings will talk about his new book, “Deep…
Following decade of no pay raises journalists see tiny salary boost
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Following decade of no pay raises journalists see tiny salary boost
After nearly a decade with no pay raises and constant increases in their share of health insurance premiums, employees at Peoria’s only daily newspaper may see a small increase in pay and a commitment to freeze their share of health…
Salting our roads — and water and fields
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Salting our roads — and water and fields
There are always trade-offs, it seems. In “Inherit the Wind,” the Henry Drummond character (Spencer Tracy in the film version) sums it up: “Progress has never been a bargain; you have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there’s a…
Mark Clark’s body in morgue unclaimed; family never notified
by contributor • • Comments Off on Mark Clark’s body in morgue unclaimed; family never notified
BY LAWRENCE J. MAUSHARD Editor’s Note: Peorian Mark Clark was 22 and a member of the Peoria NAACP and leader of the Peoria Chapter of the Illinois Black Panther Party. He was running a BPP free breakfast program for children…