Peoria County has mailed off its first batch of property tax bills.
The article contains the usual journalistic nonsense, such as the good news about property tax rates not changing very much. This ignores the reality that it’s the tax levy that determines how much property owners pay, not the rates. Those have gone up. […]
Bloomington and Normal are throwing cold water on the idea that they are hot to buy water from Peoria.
These cities say Peorians close to the buy out effort approached them, not the other way around.
My, my, my. Who to believe.
It sounds to me like buy out backers prematurely released the story to boost public support.
Crap […]
I awoke to find some cash in my PayPal tip jar.
The name and amount of donation will remain anonymous, of course. But it is very much appreciated.
It’s no secret that I’d love to figure out a way to do this full-time. But, if there is a way to blog full time and make a living […]
I’m not the only blogger unhappy with the lack of news in my city’s daily newspaper of record:
Anyone can make a newspaper that takes articles off the wires, where is the news that matters to Decatur? Three articles and briefs, in the eyes of the directorship of the Herald and Review that is all the […]
A 13-year-old boy was taken to the hospital after a railing gave way at the East Bluff apartment building in which he lives.
The kid wasn’t seriously hurt and he’s back at home. But this raised some rather obvious questions. This building has been the site of several code violations, and according to […]
Peoria is a more cosmopolitan that people give it credit for. We are home to a Fortune 500 company, Caterpillar Inc. We have professional baseball, football and hockey teams. We have a Division 1 college basketball program. People of all faiths, races and nationalities walk our streets thanks to Caterpillar and Bradley University. We have […]
Boy, the city council sure did make a mistake deciding to pursue buying the Illinois American Water Company. What’s that? Bloomington and Normal want to buy some of our water from us? So, we’re going to get revenue beyond that what is going to come from Peoria residents, which two separate studies (as […]
The WHOI Website reports that the station is off the air thanks to a power outage in Creve Coeur.
I wonder how they are able to post to their Web site without any power coming to their station? In the past, the Journal Star couldn’t post certain articles if one computer was down. I strongly suspect […]
After spending 12 years on the Peoria City Council fighting for basic services for citizens, Gary Sandberg deserves better than the hateful, reactionary rhetoric that’s been showing up in letters to the editor and blog over his vote to take the next step in pursuring a buyout of the water company.
Willy Nilly expresses the same […]
Another Campaign-Urbanaite is crying in her beer over Peoria Peoria retaining rights to the state boys basketball tournament.
Waa.
Rich Miller is all over Auditor General William Holland’s very critical report on Central Management Services. He’s also reporting that CMS conducted it;s own investigation of Holland’s office in hopes of digging up dirt, apparently to district from all the crap Holland was digging up.
It’s not working, apparently.
I’ve used reports out of the auditor’s office […]
Poor little Matt Hale. The little Hitler wannabe wanted to serve his time in the Pekin federal prison, but they are
shipping his sorry white ass to a maximum security prison in Colorado instead.
Good riddance to bad garbage. Please, please, please let his freakshow of a family follow him there.
I really doubt there’s a single person on the School District 150 Board of Education who doesn’t have his or her head buried somewhere moist and dark.
I haven’t seen any indication that these people have the slightest clue about what the real problems are. Or perhaps they do, but lack the testicular fortitude to take […]
Once again, the City of Peoria proves that we have the mojo, and Champaign is all hot air. The IHSA decided, once again, that the River City will continue to host the boys high school basketball tournament. There will be cries of outrage out of Champaign, of course, and demands by its legislators to investigate […]
C.J. Summers wonders “Whatever happened to the PEORIA Journal Star?” I offered a reason.
