The Shifted Librarian has linked linked to Peoria Pundit. I just hope no one comes here looking the movie reviews.
And because Jenny is an Illinois blogger, she gets added to the blogroll. Woo Hoo!

The results are in:
Jim Ardis — 46 percent
Bruce Brown — 24 percent
Dave Ransburg — 22 percent
Eric Turner — 6 percent
Oh, these are not the final results from the City Election Commission. These are the final results of the little unscientific poll I’ve been running on the sidebar.
Heh.
Apparently, they are called “unscientific” for a reason.
I’ll [...]

It took her three weeks, but Pam Adams, the Journal Star’s resident gangbanger apologist, found someone who was once kicked out of school for carrying a gun, who nevertheless turned out to be a real pillar of society.
James Morris was expelled for a year in 1992 after a .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun was found in his [...]

First, there’s nothing on the Journal Star’s Web site this morning saying who won the district races for the Peoria City Council. There’s one about the mayoral race, however.
Second, Phil Luciano reports that there’s a a dingo on the loose.
A coincidence? I think not. Obviously, a dingo attacked and ate the Journal Star reporter [...]

Barbara Van Auken is too polite to do it by leaving a comment to the original post, but she cornered me the other night and let me have it.
It was critical of the city for not fighting an arbitrator’s decision to allow city cops to live outside of city limits. I wrote that the city [...]

This last week, anonymous Peoria blogger Willy Nilly and I exchanged predictions for Tuesday’s municipal primary elections. The top two candidates would advance to the April 5 general election.
How did we do. I have to fess up: Willy did better than I did. He either has better inside sources than do I, or he has [...]

Rollie Keith was weatherman for WHOI back when the station went by WRAU. He moved to WMBD in 1981 and retired in 1996. I don’t recall meeting the man personally, but his on-screen personality exuded trust, which is not a character flaw in a weatherman or a newsman.
Chuck Collins, WMBD’s current weatherman, wept on [...]

Go and read his sixth edition of Mag Wag, his one-line magazine review. Read it all the way to the end and you’ll get a surprise.

Illinois Pundit is covering Urbana Democrats trying keep Republicans from voting in the Democratic Primary. He’s calling it hypocrisy (based on the fact that other Democrats have alleged fraud by the GOP in other races).
It’s all partisan bullsh*t, of course.
Folks, the purpose of a primary election is for members of a political party to decide [...]

The Copley news service is telling us that Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s habit of sleeping in Chicago, rather than in the Springfield governor’s mansion, will be a big issue in the upcoming race. Really? That’s the big issue? Not broken promises on education spending? Not cuts to the Department of Natural Resources? Not the failure to [...]

Two Dunlap sophomores died in a car accident. The driver was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions.
I usually don’t blog about such things. Call it burnout. I’ve written too many dead teenager stories.
There is no cautionary story you can tell that is going to prevent teenagers — or even 21-year-olds who haven’t [...]

The anonymous Peoria blogger Willy Nilly has posted his predictions for tomorrow’s primary election for the City of Peoria.
He says the winners will be Clyde Gulley and June Moore in the first district, Barbara Van Auken and Marcella Teplitz in the second; and Bob Manning and Angela Anderson in the third. He also predicts [...]

George Shadid Jr., the son of state Sen. George Shadid, has died after a long battle with brain cancer.
I and my family extend our condolences to the Shadid family.

Take a minute and go wish Susie
a happy birthday.
She’s 22.
A child …

I discovered Hunter S Thompson in the storage cabinet at Illinois Central College.
One of his books, “The Great Shark Hunt,” was tucked away there inside the office of the student newspaper, along with some badly out-of-date journalism texts.
And much like a bad acid trip, it messed with my brain. Here I was being taught [...]