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Coal miners fear benefits threatened
Because of the recent wave of bankruptcies rippling through the coal industry, the health care and pension benefits for thousands of retirees, dependents and widows are threatened.… MORE
Adam Studzinski
I’m a Central Illinois native who grew up in Petersburg and found my way to WJBC by way of Western Illinois University in Macomb. While at WIU I had the opportunity to cover a variety of Western’s sports teams, including WIU football and basketball. After getting my degree in broadcasting, I spent a year working…… MORE
Obituaries: Alverson, Cook, Hart, Roth, Toepke
Obituaries for Mary Alverson, Kenneth Cook, Richard Hart, Ruth Roth, and Henrietta Toepke… MORE
Obituaries: Bray, Laschober
Obituaries for John Bray and Raymond Laschober… MORE
Obituaries: Franklin
Obituary for Martha Franklin… MORE
Mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie still lacking capital
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created to open up home ownership to average Americans. Without the two mortgage giants, the housing picture in the U.S. would be drastically different. The 2008 bailout of Fannie and Freddie by the Treasury put the companies into a conservatorship. Journalist Bethany McLean says that in the wake of…… MORE
Watching this movie may make you puke
Will this movie make you physically sick? CNN’s Jeanne Moos wonders whether “The Walk” will make you woozy.… MORE
Stars offer an intern’s guide to making a movie
Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Nancy Meyers give tips on how directors need to treat actors from the set of “The Intern”.… MORE
Mumps outbreak at Bloomington High School
Mumps continues to be a problem in the Bloomington-Normal area.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…