There will be votes next week on at least two of the items that failed on 5-5 votes at Tuesday’s Peoria City Council meeting. One vote will be on whether or not to reduce automatic longevity pay increases given to non-union (mostly management) employees.
The tie votes happened because At-large council member Eric Turner was absent […]
I really, really thought there was a chance that this version of the Peoria City Council was going to different. I am really getting worried that I was wrong.*
Again and again, they passed up opportunities to stop spending money on non-essential stuff, which would have freed up money to return Fire Station 11 to full […]
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Two charitible organizations — Peoria Opportunities Foundation and the South Side Office of Concern — are asking the city of Peoria to spend $467,758 in federal in federal grant money to help them buy and renovate the former and currently vacant YWCA building in downtown Peoria. The building would be […]
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I didn’t create the design being used by new Blog Peoria member The Biggest Small Town in America. But I did tweak a standard Kubrick-style theme a bit to be able to use a few plugins and show off a nifty patriotic design.
And sorry. No one else can use it. That’s one of the things […]
U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood spoke to Dave Dahl about his son Darin’s bid to become the new U.S. attorney for Central Illinois“
Says Congressman/Dad La Hood: “I’m not really going to be involved in that process, for obvious reasons, but I think his background and his eight years of experience in prosecuting cases obviously means he’s […]
Administrators at Oak Ridge High School in Tennesee went into teachers’ classrooms, desks and mailboxes to snatch up all 1,800 copies of the newspaper. Wghat had their undies in a bunch?
The Oak Leaf’s birth control article listed success rates for different methods and said contraceptives were available from doctors and the local health department.
Superintendent […]
Today’s Word on the Streets columns attempts to mine gold from recently released minutes from closed Peoria City Council meetings.
The result is a collumn filled with interesting pieces of info, but nothing that wasn’t really known before (and discussed in the blogosphere), and precious few insights. That’s because meeting minutes are nothing but summaries with […]
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The imminent execution of Crips co-founder/convicted murder Tookie Williams has lead lead to a few Google searchers to this post about how the New York Times is soft-peddling William’s crimes and focusing on the good works he is supposedly doing from behind bars, ignoring the four victims.
Feh.
He is scheduled to die on Dec. 13.
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Let’s look at some of the sins committed by the Ladies Lounge II, the Bellvue bar that was the site of a fatal shooting:
Three shootings in the past two weeks.
Not enough parking causes problems for nearby property owners.
Trash.
Assaults on neighbors.
The bar owner’s response? She accuses the critics of racism, of course.
And I love how she […]
I don’t remember Sgt. First Class Eric Pearrow. But the 40-year-old man was a freshman at Woodruff High School when I was a senior.
I wish I did.
Pearrow died in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day in a single vehicle accident involving a M1 Abrams tank. Pearrow was a member of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Thunder Squadron, […]
I’m a fan of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, but an article on how Obama’s stock is rising with big-money donors made me wince for him:
“Warren Buffett’s $2,000 is no different than anyone else’s. There are a lot of people who can give me money,” Obama said. “The wonderful thing about Warren Buffett � […]
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