One week after the city proposed spending $55 million
to expand and renovate
the Peoria Civic Center and to back loans to renovate a privately owned
hotel, the city is
considering a proposal to eliminate another fire station in the inner city.
WHOI has the grisly details here
and here
.
For future reference, the council members who vote for [...]

From today’s Journal Star
:
/The body of Linda Kay Neal, 40, was found by a group of campers
about 10 p.m. Saturday along a one-lane, gravel road in rural
Hopedale, about 50 yards west of the Mackinaw River.
Authorities on Monday declined to [...]

From the Associated Press
(via Journal Star):
/The Tribune/WGN-TV poll found that 49 percent of registered voters
favored Kerry, down from 52 percent a month ago. Bush had the
support of 40 percent, up from 38 percent last month.
It was the first [...]

? Associated Press (via MSNBC): U.S. soldiers’ blogs detail life in Iraq

/Jason Hartley called his blog ?Just Another Soldier? and wrote
unflinchingly about everything from his buddies? families to the
conditions on base.
?I think I?ve been duped,? he wrote from a [...]

From WEEK :
/Police are investigating a possible link tonight between four
murders and the body of a woman found along King Road near Hopedale.
Local police say there may be a tie between her death, and the
killings of four other area [...]

… I need to keep readers updated about the lack of new news.
Not long after I posted this post
about on-line
allegations that there was
some quid-pro-quo going on behind closed doors and curtains in the “VIP
rooms” of a certain downtown gentleman’s club, I also made a post of my
own asking witness to this stuff to [...]

Can you believe that a candidate for the U.S. Senate would ever advocate
such a thing? What kind of right-wing wacko would want to bomb a nation
with whom we are not at war
simply because
of the possibility they might launch a nuclear missle strike against us?
I’m telling ya, that Keys is a nut … Excuse me?
Oh. [...]

First, a shout out to Angie and Rob Walker. Angie works for JMP Media
, the corporate overlords of
1470 WMBD and Big Oldies 93.3, 1290 WIRL and Lite Rock 107. Rob works
for Primedia
, the
huge media conglomerate that operates a slew of magazines, including
“Shooting Times ,” from its offices
located next door to the Journal Star building at [...]

The English language cannot describe how not surprised I am that the
/Journal Star/ not only thinks
its a wonderful
idea to commit another $55 million into renovations and expansions at
the Peoria Civic Center. They are in favor of using Hotel Restaurant and
Amusement taxes to bail out the Hotel Pere Marquette (a plan I am happy
to say [...]

Crunch time is over and I’ll be able to spew my vile and venom starting
soon. Trust me.

Cubs win ! Cubs win! Cubs win!
/The ?Let?s Go Cubs!? chant began almost immediately after Derrek
Lee singled to give Chicago the lead in the 10th inning.
The Cubs have a more loyal following than manager Dusty Baker imagined.
?I?ve never seen [...]

… there’s all sorts of coverage about plans to spend taxes on the
Civic Center and the Pere Marquette.
But I simply don’t have the time today and not tomorrow either.
So, I’ll provides links and my usual insightful comments on Sunday.
And I can’t wait, because I’m going to weight in on the Bruce Brown
candidacy. Let’s just say [...]

… a bunch of co-workers and myself will be drowning our sorrows at the
“Recovery Room” on West Pioneer Parkway in Peoria after second shift
ends. I’ll be showing up at around 12:30 a.m. if any regular readers
care to show up.

And I know just the clip joint
.

? /Journal Star/: Architect: Civic Center redesign strays from the
original concept
/The Peoria Civic Center redesign that was recently unveiled strays
from the original Philip Johnson concept, according to an architect
who worked with the initial design.
John Crawford, who at the [...]