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Happy Birthday Martin
Source: I have been to the Mountaintop
Publish date:Wednesday, January 19th, 2009
 "...whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent."
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Caught by the Birdcam
In this short video, first a cardinal and then 2 grackles perch on the basket and dine. (Might require Quicktime, but should work in most mp4 players) |
Police On Trial Again in Galesburg, Illinois
Source: Galesburg Blog
Publish date:Tuesday, September 15th, 2009On Monday, a federal lawsuit against the City of Galesburg and 4 of it's police officers passed the hurdle of a merit review, which is required by law when the plaintiff is a prisoner seeking justice. The merit review was ordered by Judge Harold A. Baker on 8/4/09 when Anthony Agans and Kandi Tucker filed their complaint.
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Hundreds in Chicago Rally For Health Care Reform
Hundreds of people rallied at a downtown Chicago plaza to support President Barack Obama's health care reform efforts. |
Happy Birthday, Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Philosopher
Publish date:Tuesday, July 21st, 2009"...all media, from the phonetic alphabet to the computer, are extensions of man that cause deep and lasting changes in him and transform his environment". |
Happy Birthday, Pablo Neruda
Publish date:Sunday, July 12nd, 2009 In 1948, already recognized as a giant among writers, Neruda spoke out against illegal detentions in his home country and was forced to flee, yet many volumes of poetry and a Nobel Peace prize lay in his future. |
Happy Birthday Billy Wilder,
Publish date:Monday, June 22nd, 2009One of the great masters of the silver screen, Billy Wilder brought to life a treasure trove of classics such as "The Apartment" "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard,". He chose to focus on issues confronted by ordinary people rather than their political fashions, and thus was spared from blacklisting. |
Katherine Dunham's 100th Birthday Celebration
Source: Missouri History Museum
Publish date:Monday, June 22nd, 2009Celebrate the centennial of the birth of legendary performer-choreographer-anthropologist- human rights activist Katherine Dunham full story, pdf |
BAGUA, Peru, Jun 16 (IPS) - Sobbing, an indigenous woman dressed in black cries out as she sees us arrive: "My son, my son, they have killed my son!" She is Andrea Rocca, the mother of Felipe Sabio, a young man who died in a clash between police and indigenous protesters in the northern Peruvian region of Amazonas. |
Happy Birthday Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web
Publish date:Monday, June 8th, 2009Tim Berners-Lee's creation of the World Wide Web has forever changed the shape of modern life, altering the way people do business, entertain and inform themselves, build communities, and exchange ideas |
Happy Birthday, Bill Moyers, Journalist and Pundit
For nearly 50 years, celebrated television broadcaster, journalist and social pundit Bill Moyers has had his finger on the pulse of American politics, history and pop culture, both working in the government and looking into it. While some may debate his opinions, few can question Moyers' place in America's highest journalistic ranks. |
Happy Birthday, Aesop, Ancient Creator of Fables
Publish date:Thursday, June 4th, 2009John R. Long maintains the most extensive collection of Aesop online. |
Happy Birthday, Studs Terkel, Author and Oral Historian
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Saturday, May 16th, 2009For 45 years, Studs Terkel conducted interviews with people from all walks of life. Through his radio program and published oral histories, Terkel was able to capture the pulse of American life from such varied people as celebrities, politicians, war veterans and single mothers. |
City of Galesburg Cell Phone Use Up 500%
Source: Galesburg Blog
Publish date:Monday, May 4th, 2009The cost of cell phone use has gone down, and the City of Galesburg has spent millions of dollars on specialized communications and dispatching systems, but City workers have submitted cell phone bills 5 times greater than they were 5 years ago. Here are the detailed figures, and my actions on this issue. |
22 Protesters arrested at Blackwater in Jo Davies County
"...citizens walked onto Blackwater's property to serve a notice of foreclosure on the property of a company that is morally bankrupt." |
Happy Birthday, James Audubon, Artist, Ornithologist and Naturalist
Many a bird watcher will recognize the name of John James Audubon, the famous naturalist who made a name for himself by painting and describing many of America's birds, and creating such notable works as "Birds of America." |
Happy Birthday, Edward R. Murrow, Pioneering Broadcast Journalist
Former president of the National Student Federation of America, radio reporter during World War II and head of the United States Information Agency under John F. Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow was regarded as a journalist of great integrity. As a voice for the minority, he did not hesitate to strike against the powerful who aimed to silence him, including Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
Roknich votes for himself
Source: Mayoral Blog
Publish date:Tuesday, April 22th, 2009The picture at left is me voting for myself, 2 weeks ago. I'll soon be working to fulfill my campaign promises. |
Woman sues Edwardsville, police over repossession
Source: Madison County Record
Publish date:Saturday, April 9th, 2009"The Defendant police officers not only aided and assisted in the repossession of Angelique Kincaid's Nissan Pathfinder, without their assistance the repossession would not have occurred as a vehicle cannot be repossessed with the owner inside said vehicle," the suit states. |
Happy Birthday, Billie Holiday, Legendary Jazz Singer
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Billie Holiday's voice carried a soulful sadness that echoed throughout her short life. Although she lived to see fame and success, she died a tragic death. Nearly half a century after her death, Holiday is still remembered and revered for her unique musical talent. |
Happy Birthday: Lincoln Steffens,Muckraker
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Monday, April 6th, 2009Steffens is remembered for pioneering a style of critical, investigative reporting that centered on covering the misdeeds of civic and corporate leaders. |
Hyperthymesia: Total Recall, Totally Overwhelming
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Monday, March 16th, 2009Due to a condition called hyperthymesia, Jill Price can recall practically every day of her life in vivid detail. New scans of Price's brain may finally reveal the source of her extraordinary memory. |
Ill. attorney general proposes new ethics fines
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (The Record) -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants to slap governments with up to a $1,000 fine for denying citizens the right to view public documents.... |
A meditation on the passage of time | John Knoepfle's new book of poetry
We caught snowflakes on our
tongues, found sticks to scratch our names in the pristine whiteness and
followed our own tracks home where I sat down with John Knoeple's new... By Carol Manley. |
Happy Birthday, Berthe Morisot
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Berthe Morisot helped usher in the Impressionist movement in the 1860s by displaying her portraits and scenes of everyday life at prominent exhibits like the Paris Salon.more
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City of Galesburg Admits 3 Years of Budget Errors
Source: KnoxGalesBlog
Publish date:Sunday, February 1st, 2009After an elected official raised questions about budget discrepancies, the City of Galesburg has admitted to numerous errors in reported expenditures for fiscal year 2004, 2005 and 2006. |
Happy Birthday, Max Roach
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Saturday, January 10th, 2009Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach was an innovator to the end. As a young musician, he helped define new movements in jazz: later in life, he experimented with hip-hop and video artists, constantly exploring and moving forward with his art. Throughout his career, Roach rose to the forefront of any group he played with, actively engaging other musicians by exploring the melody of a piece through his drums, rather than simply keeping the beat. |
Elizabeth Alexander, President-elect Obama's Inaugural Poet
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Thursday, January 8th, 2009Elizabeth Alexander was chosen by President-elect Obama to serve as America's fourth inaugural poet. Alexander will write and read an original poem on January 20 to honor the swearing-in of America's first African-American president. Alexander is a professor of African-American Studies at Yale and has written four books of poetry. |
Happy Birthday, Zora Neale Hurston
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Wednesday, January 7th, 2009"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions." |
Happy Birthday, Carl Sandburg
Source: Librarian of the Internet
Publish date:Wednesday, January 6th, 2009Carl Sandburg was known primarily as a "poet of the people." But as an artist it is hard to confine him to poetry alone. |
Illinois man accused of stealing beer from store destroyed by fire
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Monday, December 22nd, 2008A Galesburg man has landed in jail for breaking into a convenience store, but the store in question had already been destroyed by a fire, explosion and roof collapse. |
Politician tries to protect NYC's pesky parrots
Source: Strange News
Publish date:Monday, December 22nd, 2008Polly want a New York City Council resolution? A Queens politician is drafting measures to protect Brooklyn's wild Quaker parrots, whose nests have caused power outages. Councilman Tony Avella wants to make it illegal to capture the parrots and wants the city to relocate their nests when necessary. |
Say Yes to Carrey's latest | No to Reeves' Earth reboot
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, December 18th, 2008
In the tradition of Groundhog Day and Stranger than Fiction, Jim Carrey's Yes Man finds poor Carl Allen stuck in a mundane existence he's unwilling to change. Still smarting from his failed marriage, there isn't an opportunity this sad sack won't turn down. His fea... By Chuck Koplinski. |
Workers Stage Sit-In at Chicago Factory
Source: Chicago IMC
Publish date:Monday, December 5th, 2008CHICAGO (IMC) -- Workers at Republic Windows and Doors today say they are not leaving the plant until they get "what is rightfully theirs." |
O.J. Sentenced To As Many As 33 Years For Robbery
Source: WIFR NewsA broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as many as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." |
November Home Sales Drop Second Largest of the Year
Source: WIFR NewsBois says now is the best time to take advantage of interest rate cuts |
Australia: A movie as grand as the continent itself
Director Baz Luhrmann has never been satisfied with modest productions. Strictly Ballroom, Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge, for good or ill, all wallowed in wretched excess and his latest, Australia, is no exception. Luhrmann's trademark flourishes are on lavish display here as larg... By Chuck Koplinski. |
Clean coal may be on Obama agenda
Source: Illinois AP
Publish date:Saturday, November 22nd, 2008GALATIA, Ill.(AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama continues to support the now-defunct FutureGen project in central Illinois.... |
Guess the Tune, Win a Free CD
Identify the sound clip and win a free transcription of your favorite record to CD...
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Farm Summits Focus on Profitability Issues
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Saturday, November 8th, 2008Four farm economics summits that will focus on profitability issues will be held in Illinois Dec. |
Former Galesburg Police Officer Sentenced for Drug Thefts
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Thursday, November 6th, 2008A Knox County judge says a former Galesburg police officer who resigned after allegedly getting caught stealing drugs from an evidence locker will get the specialized probation he wanted, but he will also have ... |
FEMA rejects plea from Illinois flood victims
Source: Illinois AP
Publish date:Monday, August 25th, 2008SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- No federal relief for victims of the March flooding southern Illinois.... |
Telling the story of the 1908 riot | Springfield's Melinda McDonald describes the horror from a unique perspective
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, August 14th, 2008This novel of historical fiction, on the Springfield
race riot of 1908 by Springfieldian Melinda McDonald, is told from a unique
point of view. Sheba Tully, a young black woman, obtains a housemaid
position in the home of Susan Lawrence Dana. Dana is at the pinnacle of
Springfiel... By Jacqueline Jackson. |
Quite a rush | Two university-affiliated literary magazines showcase Springfield talent
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Some college literary magazines exist primarily to
publish the scribblings of a group of friends. I edited - OK,
perpetrated - a couple of them back in the day. Then there are those
with higher goals. SCOPE, published by the Southern Illinois Universit... By Lola Lucas. |
Pineapples and pants | Chase comedy turns violent in the end; the Sisterhood is back
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, August 7th, 2008
You'd be hard pressed to find a film that has
as many contradictory elements as Pineapple
Express. Its director, David Gordon Green, is
a darling of the indie film circuit, with such esoteric works as George Washington and All the Real Girls under his
belt; i... By Chuck Koplinski. |
Horns of plenty | Serbian gypsy brass band plays the Hoogland on Sunday
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, July 17th, 2008
What do you get when you put five flugelhorns,
four tenor horns, a helicon, and several percussion instruments together in
the same band? ... By Tom Irwin. |
Ex-Galesburg lieutenant OK'd for drug treatment
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Friday, July 11th, 2008A former Galesburg police lieutenant accused of stealing drugs from the department's evidence locker has been approved for a drug treatment program, his attorney said Thursday. |
Galesburg residents fuming over BNSF train fumes
Publish date:Thursday, July 10th, 2008GALESBURG, Ill. - A backlog of freight trains because of flooding that closed a number of tracks in Iowa caused some complaints along the BNSF Railway's Barstow Subdivision line in the city's Morton and Rock full story... |
Balloon festival ground by lack of funds
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Galesburg's annual hot air balloon festival won't be getting off the ground this year because of money woes. |
Phony doctor had fish toxin and murder manual
Source: Illinois AP
By MIKE ROBINSON
Publish date:Tuesday, July 1st, 2008CHICAGO (AP) -- An FBI search turned evidence of deadly fish toxin and a book about the use of poisons in the home of of a murder suspect who had impersonated a doctor.... |
People's poetry | Jacqueline Jackson presents
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, June 19th, 2008Jacqueline Jackson presents By Jacqueline Jackson. |
Barge floats 2-story home from Wash. to Canada
Source: Strange News
Publish date:Thursday, June 19th, 2008Rolling the waterfront house onto a barge on Lake Washington took slightly more than 20 minutes. The home's maritime trip to British Columbia is taking a bit longer. |
Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90 in Sri Lanka
Source: WIFR NewsHe was the visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future. |
Part-time cop shoots himself in leg
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Galesburg police say charges may be pending and they are investigating the incident. via KQAD-TV |
Girl In Clinton's `3 a.m.' Ad Is Now 17 And Supports Obama
Casey Knowles is the sleeping 8-year-old girl appearing in a recent TV ad for Hillary Clinton about the 3 a.m. phone call. It's old footage; Knowles is about to turn 18. |
`Redneck Shop' Creates Dispute in S.C.
Source: Strange News
Publish date:Monday, March 10th, 2008A black civil rights activist is fighting to close a store that sells KKK robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it happen. After all, he says he owns the building. |
Allerton Public Library receives $1.9 million gift
MONTICELLO, Ill. -- Director Lisa Winters saw Max Hency about 20 years ago - he remembered the Allerton Library in his will.... |
Whirlpool closing Reynosa plant
On Thursday, employees in Reynosa learned how workers in Galesburg felt, as Whirlpool, which now owns Maytag, announced it will close its Reynosa facility. The Daily Gazette (02-02) |
Ice Takes Down Weather Servers
Service returned at 5:00PM.
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Reign of Corrupt US Rep Weller Ends, Leaves Seat Open in Illinois
Source: Illinois AP
By DEANNA BELLANDI
Publish date:Friday, January 11th, 2008CHICAGO (AP) -- For years, Republicans could count on Rep. Jerry Weller winning the 11th Congressional District, but not anymore.... |
THE GREAT DEBATERS
Source: HRA
Publish date:Sunday, January 6th, 2008FILM REVIEW--THE GREAT DEBATERS by Jim Jacobs
Entertaining, informative and smashing stereotypes, this is an important film, directed by Denzel Washington... |
Folks Songs of Illinois
Source: Illinois Times
Publish date:Thursday, December 13th, 2007Folks Songs of Illinois provides an excellent introduction to many kinds of music By Todd Volker.
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Study: Shy Swedes Are Habitual Huggers
Source: Strange News
Publish date:Thursday, November 29th, 2007While Swedes have a reputation of being reserved, a new study shows they'll hug just about anyone except their boss. Nine out of 10 Swedes embrace somebody at least once a week, with women aged 30-44 being the most active huggers, according to the study presented Thursday by the Swedish Red Cross. |
Galesburg newspaper publisher Don Cooper resigns post
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 GALESBURG, Ill. - The publisher of The Register-Mail, the daily newspaper in Galesburg, has stepped down. via Quad-City Times |
Amtrak Ridership In Illinois Up
Source: WIFR NewsHuge ridership gains are tied to increased Amtrak train frequencies in Illinois, with the three routes between Chicago and downstate communities showing large increases and helping Amtrak to set a new national record for passengers |
Swedoughs customers left feeling empty
Source: topix gburg
Publish date:Friday, October 26th, 2007"They said 'don't come in tomorrow. They're closing the doors. That's it,' " via Register-Mail |
Meatless Main Dishes: Carrot Rice Nut Burger | Submitted By: Janice Joyner
Source: All Recipes
Publish date:Saturday, October 27th, 2007Always wanted to make your own veggie burgers? It's easy! Roasted cashews and sunflower seeds blended with brown rice, carrots and onions make these burgers delicious and nutritious. |
Couple's Dancing Cockatoo Becomes a Star
An online video of pet cockatoo dancing to a Backstreet Boys song has a northwestern Indiana couple dealing with some worldwide attention. Irena and Chuck Schulz have more than 30 birds in their home, but the cockatoo, Snowball, is the star. |
Heartland getting boost from record prosperity on farms
Source: Chicago Tribune
Publish date:Sunday, October 14th, 2007 In Galesburg, battered by the shutdown of its giant Maytag refrigerator plant and other top local employers in recent years, profits on the farm come as welcome news. full story and comments |
Artists Built Secret Apartment in Mall
Source: Strange News
Publish date:Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007The leader of an artists' cooperative has been sentenced to probation for setting up a secret apartment inside a shopping mall's parking garage as part of a project on mall life. |
The $2.2 trillion fair use (U.S.) economy
Source: Creative Commons
Publish date:Thursday, September 13th, 2007The Computer and Communications Industry Association has released a study claiming that the value added in the United States by industries dependent on fair use is $2.2 trillion dollars annually...
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The War Comes Home Uses Creative Commons Licences
Source: Creative Commons
Publish date:Monday, September 17th, 2007The Pacifica Foundation's flagship station, KPFA, has launched an interactive website, warcomeshome.org, that allows visitors to listen to and share stories about the consequences of the Iraq war for those in America, using their own blogs, email lists, and social networking sites. The website features audio stories, photos, transcripts, resources for veterans and activists, as [...] |
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