“Always low prices, always,” has been Wal-Mart’s slogan for a long time. The retail giant offers not only low prices, but low wages, according to a new report by the University of California, Berkeley. Wal-Mart pays its employees 14.5 percent...
DeKALB | Draped in his Superman t-shirt, surrounded by thousands of tourists and so nervous he forgot everything he planned to say, Theo Plothe took out the wedding ring he had been carrying in his pocket for days and asked his girlfriend, Amber Buck,...
DeKALB | The smell of dead fish has recently filled the air by the East Lagoon with many washed up on shore. Mike Saari, director of the NIU physical plant, said the main cause of this is when a body of water, such as the lagoon, thaws out during the...
DeKALB | After a 10-year manhunt, the U.S. military and President Barack Obama confirmed Sunday night Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, had been killed in a firefight in northern Pakistan. In a speech delivered shortly after the news broke, Obama...
DeKalb City Council voted Monday to view proposals from outside contractors to perform the services of city attorney. The council directed a Request for Proposal (RFP), which asks private contractors to perform services held by the city attorney. Norma...
DeKALB | NIU President John Peters led the groundbreaking ceremony Monday for what he called the “most important project” in the school’s history. Production has now started on the 1,000-bed residential facility for first-year students located north...
DeKALB | In the second poorest country in the Northern Hemisphere, pieces of scrap metal are what children call home and garbage from the dump is what they call food. But for a week in March, they were aided by this community. From March 19 to 26, 10...
Over the past 20 years, the teen pregnancy rate has dropped by 40 percent, making it the lowest rate in 70 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite this, 400,000 teen girls, aged 15-19, still give birth each year in...
Everyone says they care; now NIU is proving it. On Saturday, NIU will hold its fifth annual NIU Cares Day, which is a campus-wide day of community service. The goal is to bring students, faculty and staff together to complete service projects in the county...
DeKALB | Most of the land in DeKalb is farmland, and therefore much of the city's revenue comes from crops and property taxes. There is, however, a predator aimed at disrupting this, and worse yet, is invisible to the naked eye. The corn nematode is a...
DeKALB | Going to the dentist, having to report for jury duty and filing one's taxes are a few of the most dreaded tasks for some Americans. According to several tax professionals though, taxes are not as scary as most people make them out to be. Senaida...
