MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Alyson McKean Regional Marketing Manager (309) 409-5775 Alyson.McKean@unitypoint.org UnityPoint Health calls for community help with COVID-19 Peoria, IL- March 27, 2020- UnityPoint Health (UPH) joins health systems across Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin in…
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Limiting protective garb for healthcare workers sparks conflict at OSF
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BY CLARE HOWARD OSF Saint Francis Medical Center issued a policy Tuesday prohibiting employees from buying, borrowing or making their own personal protective equipment like face masks. At a time COVID-19 is sweeping across America taking a devastating toll, healthcare…
Potential health risks of recreational marijuana
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Editor’s Note: Community Word ran an editorial in our September 2014 edition advocating for the legalization of recreational marijuana, not because we need more mind-altering drugs but because criminalization disproportionately impacted African Americans even though use is equal between whites…
Op-Ed | Great disappointment in lack of disclosure regarding Bradley’s decision about WCBU
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BY SHERYL COHEN AND MARY BETH NEBEL The latest information regarding the fate of Peoria Public Radio is that the station will cease to operate on Bradley University’s campus and will be “moved” to WGLT in Bloomington. When WCBU’s facilities…
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Journal Star: A “ghost newspaper”
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Incompetence and greed” is how a source described corporate, out-of-state management at the Peoria Journal Star, now owned by GateHouse Media headquartered in New York. Within just the last few months, the newsroom’s already devastated staff was cut by another…
Kavanaugh and Supreme Court to planet: drop dead
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Vote to save your life. Vote to save the planet. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kavanaugh-and-supreme-court-to-planet-drop-dead
Food for justice
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The infrastructure of American’s food system entrenches social and income inequality, devastates rural communities and inner cities, drives declining health and further empowers corporations and the politicians they support. Working in resistance to those trends are Dave Bishop, an organic…
Nature Rambles | Natural Divisions
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How do ecologists make sense of the varied landscapes and habitats that make up the vast state of Illinois? This was a question that I hoped to answer at a recent Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program I was doing…
Why Rename Woodrow Wilson Primary School?
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Understanding history and the world is an evolutionary process. History is not cast in stone, an eternal monument to truth. When more is learned and understood, the accuracy of our perception of history improves. Perhaps when Woodrow Wilson Primary School…