June 2014 – CU-CitizenAccess.org

Evo Internet Café, 711 S. Sixth Street, on Monday, June 9.

Sewage backups, lack of hand-washing among reasons for eight restaurants to fail April inspections

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Post published:June 26, 2014
Post category:Article

By Claire Everett/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Raw sewage backup prompted health inspectors to temporarily shut down two area restaurants in April. Champaign-Urbana Public Health District inspectors…

Read more about the article Safe at Home Part 1: Illinois’s home birth crisis

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Emily Fetterer and Kimberlie Kranich hold their new daughter, Azmi Ann.

Safe at Home Part 1: Illinois’s home birth crisis

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Post published:June 23, 2014
Post category:Article Health Care Public Health

By Christine Herman/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Home births have increased by more than 50 percent since 2004. But in 22 states, certified professional midwives have to…

Peppers are a good thing to buy organic, because they do not have peels. Here you can see red peppers at Strawberry Fields.

Obtaining Organic, Fresh Food on a Budget

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Post published:June 23, 2014
Post category:Article Elderly Watch

By Joanna Nowak, Natalie Leoni, Carissa Townsend, Gino DiVittorio/ For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- University of Illinois research shows that “one in 12 seniors do not have access to…

Read more about the article Slices of Life: Missing the music

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I Ketut Gede Asnawa gently bangs a gong, which helps make up a gamelan, at the School of Music Building in Urbana.

Slices of Life: Missing the music

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Post published:June 11, 2014
Post category:Article Neighborhoods

By Sonia Kurniawan -- If only. If only he were back in Bali. He would not have so many sleepless nights. His heart would not…

Emily Lewis sits with one of her dogs at the Dog Training Club of Champaign-Urbana.

Unconditional Love: Pet ownership brings joy – and more – at any age

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Post published:June 9, 2014
Post category:Article Elderly Watch

By Jack Preis, Ralph Cooper, Sarah Soenke and Taylor Rooks/ For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- According to the Humane Society, 62 percent of American households owned at…

Read more about the article One family’s struggle for health insurance

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Giovanna Olea in the community center in Shadowwood community on Thursday, April 17, 2014. photo by Darrell Hoemann/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

One family’s struggle for health insurance

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Post published:June 5, 2014
Post category:Blog

By Giovanna Olea/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Giovanna Olea works for CU-CitizenAccess.org as a community ambassador in a computer lab at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park. CU-CitizenAccess.org has opened…

Read more about the article Big broadband to reach all of Champaign-Urbana

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iTV-3 vice president Levi Dinkla speaks during a press conference announcing a partnership between UC2B and iTV-3 at Enterprise Works in the UIUC Research Park on Thursday, May 29, 2014. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Big broadband to reach all of Champaign-Urbana

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Post published:June 4, 2014
Post category:Article Technology

Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Now all residents in Champaign-Urbana can access big broadband, thanks to a new agreement with a private company. It was standing…