Willy Nilly, the anonymous Peoria blogger, links back to my post about Ransburg’s new take on why the city should spend $4.5 million to give doctors a place to park. He also notes that Millionaire Dave Ransburg, the Journal Star’s favorite “progressive,” received a $2,500 campaign contribution from one of the doctor groups.
I gotta tell […]
Sharapova finally finishes off Venus
Edgar Sandoval today discusses the vulgar, obscene and racist taunts directed at the underage girls he coaches at Pekin High School.
The perps were apparently students, and not parents. Thank God.
I have to be honest with Eric and say I’ve heard as bad or worse comments come from Pekin students and parents back in the days […]
You’ve gotta be friggin’ kidding me. The City of San Francisco is considering requiring bloggers to register with the city, and to endure a list of regulations and audits.
Heh.
It’s unenforceable, of course, thanks to the nature of the Internet. The government can’t stop spammers, but they think they can track down and regulate bloggers.
Idiots.
Of course, […]
There’s breaking news that they’ve given Pope John Paul the last rites.
Woo Hoo!
It’s 62 degrees and clear, according to the weather info posted at WEEK.com. Downright balmy?
Not really.
All I know is that I’m wearing short sleeves, sitting on my deck and blogging away. And it’s a scheduled day off.Abd my blood sugar is at reasonable levels.
Fantastic.
Of course, the wind picks up occasionally, meaning I’ve gotta […]
Back when I talked to City Manager Randy Oliver about the city’s secret negotiations to spend $4.5 million on “infrastructure improvements” at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, the excuse was that the college would abandon Peoria is we didn’t show them the love. And build a parking deck for the rich doctors who […]
The Journal Star today got around to profiling the race between incumbent Gale Thetford and Bob Manning, who are running for the 3rd District seat on the Peoria City Council.
This paragraph is key:
If elected, Manning said one of his first priorities would be to get the Peoria Police Department, which is 14 officers short, […]
Dean Esmay and Peoria’s own Blex Zazpiak are engaging in a running feud over a dead Commie revolutionary.
It started with this tiny Dean’s World post about Carlos Santana wearing a crucifix over a ‘Che’ Guevara T-shirt.
Blex responded by saying that Dean was fixated on the evils of Communist dictators while ignoring the right-wingers the United […]
Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero talks to Noemi Sanin, the Colombian ambassador in Spain upon his arrival in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, March 30, 2005.
The things one puts up with when one enters the diplomatic service. At least she seems to be enjoying it.
Well, it doesn’t seem a huge step from sexually harassing […]
The people who helped get Peoria in the mess that it’s in during the past 20-plus years apparently want to stay the course.
Jeff Melbourne is liveblogging the tornado warnings and thunderstorms that hit Peoria today.
I was up to my eyeballs in completing a River City Times assignment and didn’t notice until the lights started flickering and hailstones the size of nickles started hitting my deck. Needles to say, I started hitting the save button every 60 seconds.
I […]
“MSM” — That’s the mainstream media. In this case, that means WCBU, Peoria’s public radio station. I’ve been asked to be an analyst for the station’s election night coverage.
I dunno. Can you be called a “sellout” for appearing on public radio?
Even so … Johnathan Ahl is a fine reporter, and it will be a pleasure […]
The poor guy is feeling a little threatened. So I offered some calm, rational advice.
It’s 8:17 a.m. or so, and the Journal Star hasn’t pulled its collective head out of its ass long enough to post on the Web it’s article about the race between Barbara Van Auken and incumbent Marcella Teplitz.
That’s OK. I had coffee at McDonald’s, and I was able to browse a copy that someone has […]
