In a virtual repeat of its earlier pre-primary election piece, the Journal Star today endorsed Gale Theford for the 3rd District seat on the Peoria City Council.
It praises Thetford as courageous budget cutter who understands the need for capital projects funded by the public, yadda yadda. Bob Manning got into the race because he [...]

Chase Ingersoll has been kind enough to post a list of chronic drug houses the city can’t seem to do anything about.
I’m thinking it might be a good idea to keep a running list like this up and running at all times, complete with pictures — perhaps video - to demonstrate how serious the problem [...]

Here is a heartwarming little story about how neighborhoods groups worked with a local business owner to reduce crime and loitering in a residential area (just three blocks from my home).
Funny thing is, Marcella Teplitz isn’t mentioned once.
Someone at the Journal Star didn’t get the memo from the editorial board.
If Marcella hurries, I’m sure [...]

It’s almost universal. When interviewing someone who put their life at risk to aid someone else, they almost inevitably say something to the effect that it wasn’t anything anybody else wouldn’t have done. We can now add Spc. Jeremy Church of the 724th Transportation Company to that list. The Bloomington solder was awarded the Silver [...]

No surprise: The Journal Star has once again endorsed incumbent Marcella Teplitz for Peoria City Council. And once again, they are castigating Barbara Van Auken for being the ex-wife of At-large city council member Gary Sandberg, for whom the JS’s hatred knows no bounds.
I am going to suggest that the person who wrote [...]

Get a load of these paragraphs from the Journal Star’s report of last night’s debate between Mayor Dave Ransburg and at-large councilman Jim Ardis:
Watching it all was a hand-selected studio audience. Ardis supporters were on one side, Ransburg supporters on the other, “like a wedding,” said station general manager Mark DeSantis.
Ransburg’s side was more [...]

Ralph has another ot his typically interesting wrap ups of Illinois political links.

Who won the debate, televised live on WEEK? We’ll know April 5. Certainly, I agreed with Jim Ardis more than I did with Mayor David Ransburg.
I also thought Ardis came across better. But he would have had to have been under heavy medication to be any less monotone than Dave Ransburg.
Judging from a standpoint [...]

Poor Dave Ransburg. First, Jennifer Davis writes about the hired guns the millionaire was bringing in the to help him defeat his middle-class opponent Jim Ardis. The article said that Ransburg had hired, among others, Carter Hendren, the former chief of staff of former State Senate President James “Pate” Philip. Now, he’s [...]

Fifth District City Council member Pat Nichting says it was “unfair” that he and three other council members got pegged with the name Four Horsemen (at the bottom of the article). It came to describe a group of council members who voted according to the philosophy that the city needs to take care of [...]

Thirteen months ago, I posted a list of 10 Peorians who should be blogging.
Of those, two have blogs: Chase Ingersoll and Merle Widmer. Jeff Trigg already had one (I was giving him grief about not posting regularly, you see).
Some of the people on this list were longshots, so I won’t include them on [...]

with the water buyout or the general direction the city has taken in the past 20 years.
Years ago I warned of a power structure that was going to run this city the way they wanted with or without taxpayer approval … Almost any of us could have accomplished more considering the hundreds of millions [...]

“Horse puckey?”

Those Illini are about ready to give me a heart attack.

An awful lot of Illini fans almost had to eat this:

Jeezus, what a game.