When I think of my mother and music so many memories and thoughts come to mind. It has always been such a common thread between the two of us, something special we could share that didn’t quite include my older sister. While my mom carted me around to all those dance lessons, gymnastic classes and…… MORE
Bloggers We Love: 30 Day Challenge (AKA: A Journey to Lose the Thass)
New year, new resolutions! Raise your hand if your New Year’s Resolutions included getting fit, losing weight or obtaining a healthier lifestyle…and that’s probably just about everyone. Well, we have just the person to help inspire you along your journey with this blogger we love: Laura Stroud. Laura took on the intense Tracy Anderson Method…… MORE
The CMA Awards Blog
7:00 PM/CT The 45th Annual CMA Awards kicks off with a country standard – “Footloose.” This ain’t your Daddy’s CMAs, but luckily Blake Shelton gives the song a good ole country twist complete with go-go dancers and industrial scaffolding. Look, it’s Kenny Loggins joining in… 7:04 PM/CT We get the first of what will prove…… MORE
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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…