Fax: June 28, 2005 Peoria City Council meetings

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

See for your self how they all voted.

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Shake-up on Wisconsin Avenue

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

Alicia Butler and Sean Matheson will become president and vice president of the Peoria District 150 School Board on Friday. The Journal Star’s Clare Jellick got the scoop from an anonymous source.
Butler, the current vice president, will replace current president Aaron Schock, who now represents Peoria in the Illinois House of Representatives.
I doubt there’s too […]

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Filed under: Statehouse & Capitol

Like the new Word Press site?

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

I’m still fiddling with it. I’d like to dump the dull-blue graphic that came with the three-column theme I downloaded and substitute a graphic like the one I used with Moveable Type. I haven’t quite got that to work yet.
Illini Pundit also is rumored to be working on a new Word Press design.
It’s not […]

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JS shows special treatment for johns

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

On the same day the Journal Star had a headline and a story identifying a group of women arrested and charged with prostitution, it buried the names of five man charged with soliciting prostitution at the bottom of a routine police briefs. These seven guys probably aren’t the five guys the JS declined to name […]

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Eminent domain at work

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

More trouble on the East Bluff:
A 19-year-old Peoria man was jumped in the East Bluff by a group of men after he refused to give them his change early Wednesday.
The victim was walking in the 500 block of Ravine Avenue about 12:30 a.m. when he was confronted by five men, Peoria police report.
That’s just a […]

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Filed under: The Wire

I may have problems getting my unemployment bennies

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

I worked at my former employer for almost two years. During that time, I and my employer paid into the state’s unemployment benefits system.
I would much rather have been handed that cash along with my regular pay and be allowed to invest in my own retirement. But the system is what it is, and I […]

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Filed under: Local

‘Please help to keep our older neighborhoods livable’

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

I received a copy of this email sent to Peoria City Council members:
I have just read the Journal Star editorial regarding the removal of basketball hoops that are in the public way. My take on the article is that the city council could be extorted by fears of retribution if they start removing these […]

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Peoria City Hall still makes room for pigs at the trough

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

I am baffled as to why this is a good idea.
Last year, the City of Peoria ran its enterprise zone in a straight, narrow line right up the middle of Knoxville Avenue to Proctor Hospital in order to give a tax break to a bunch of private practice physicians who wanted to build a […]

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Filed under: Statehouse & Capitol

Streetwalkers to cops: Thanks for the free advertising

Posted on June 30th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

City Manager Randy Oliver told the Journal Star that posting pics of busted prostitutes and their johns will help deter the practice.
The ladies, however, say it will help prove to customers that they aren’t undercover decoys. Folks, does it not occur to anyone that because the pics are going up on the Peoria Police Department […]

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Filed under: The Wire

My parents went to Blogger Bash II and all I got was this lousy t-shirt

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

I haven’t mentioned it in a while, so I thought it wise to bring up. “Blogger Bash II: Reloaded” will be held Saturday, July 9, at Whitey’s Tip Top Inn, 2601 N Sheridan Rd, Peoria, IL. It plan to be there shortly before 8 p.m.
If you get there before I do, say hello to […]

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Filed under: Citizen Journalism

Fax: Cable discussion scheduled

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

The city has scheduled the first community forum to father information before it starts to negotiate a new franchise agreement with Insight.
Related:
Why not two cable companies?

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Filed under: Local

I’m on the radio today

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

Just a reminder: I’m making my regularly scheduled 4:30-5 p.m. appearance on WXCL FM 104.9 today with B.J. Stone. I’ll be discussing politics as usual, and I’ll probably hang around and goof on callers.
This will be the second week on the air without a scoop. Of course, who knows what will appear in my mail […]

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It’s official: Peoria has an air quality problem

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

I complained about the city’s air quality recently, although my issue had as much to do with the stench from Archer Daniels Midland. I’m glad someone else noticed the haze problem, although everyone else in town seems to not notice or care. While the haze no doubt made the stench problem worse, I’d like […]

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More council stuff …

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

The Journal Star’s Jennifer Davis’ council story focuses on the city’s “olive branch” to the county. I think the decision to seek negotiations is perhaps more in the interest of public relations than reconciliation. If the county board balks, the council can say it took the high road.
WMBD 31 and WMBD 1470 have their […]

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Council keeps it brief, puts off drainage discussion

Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Billy Dennis

Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis reads a proclamation honoring Woodruff High School’s Sterling Merit Award winners. These young men and women are recent grads who finished in the top 8 percent of their class.*
So what happened at Tuesday’s city council meeting? Not much. Three council members were absent, and that made the council postpone some […]

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