Peoria ChronicleFunny, we don’t see images like this one much these days. It’s almost as if the media doesn’t want us to remember.
Hat tip: Polly.
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PeoriaIllinoisan had it right. WMBD1470 reports that L.R. Nelson announced that it is buying Henri Studio, a manufacturer of cast-stone fountains and statuary.
Next up, an announcement that Dave Ransburg will be moving these jobs to China too.
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Once definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
So why is the city even bothering to try to make its firefighters live within city limits?
Bear in mind that this is the rule in small towns all across the state. I know, because I’ve reported from […]
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Kudos to Jenny Davis and Molly Parker for a spot-on perfect Word on the Street column today. They lead with details about the corrupt (my word, not theirs) Peoria Civic Center Authority are hell bent to force taxpayers to finance a new hotel right next to the Civic Center.
The first plan fell through because of […]
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Folks, I got some bad news in the mail today.
One of my member bloggers reported a problem entering her site. I checked, and lo and behold, it was affecting everyone’s Blog Peoria blog.
Essentially, there was a data base error that reported there were “too many open filed” for the mySQL databases to work.
I am working […]
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Talk about a turnaround: ‘Houston Chronicle’ Links to Ex-Reporter’s Blog That Got Him Fired
NEW YORK More than three years after the Houston Chronicle fired reporter Steve Olafson for writing a personal blog, and sparked an industry-wide debate over reporters’ freedom of opinion that continues today, Olafson is back at the Chronicle–sort of.
Since November, when the […]
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Via WMBD 1470:
A welcome home celebration is planned in Galesburg Monday for soliders returning from Iraq. Members of Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 123rd Field Artillery of Galesburg were called to active duty in December of 2004 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. They have been at Fort Dix, New Jersey for demobilization since January 21st. The […]
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I hate to criticize HOI News, especially considering that their redesigned Web site is soooo easy on the eyes, but I have to scratch my head over their ignorance of Peoria geography.
The headline reads: Expanding business in Downtown Peoria.
Trouble is, this headline sits atop a story about expansion at the One World Cafe, located at […]
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I found Krisser Pisser at Angie’s Drama.
Angie Walker,Angies Drama, Kisser Pisser
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Terry Bibo Baker reports on the City of Peoria arranging for arrest warrants for people who don’t pay parking tickets. She includes some allegations that people are getting arrested for not paying tickets they never had. The article implies that this is a huge problem in the City of Peora.
My two cents: I am […]
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Via Yahoo! TV News & Gossip -:
Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for […]
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Peoria Blogger Scott Janz has an interesting take on the concept of justifiable homicide in a crack house:
I can just here how the interogation went:
Police: “What did you see“?
Crack Head: ”Yea, I hate when I’m doing crack and a drug addict comes in waving a gun”. “Man, can’t a guy do crack anymore without […]
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Sweet babbling Jesus:
A Republic, Madam, If You Can Keep It
Because the Daily Illini has requested that Google remove the cached version of the Muhammad cartoons it ran, I am reproducing the entirety of Acton Gorton’s statement accompanying the printing here.
After this paragraph, the blogger — a U of I student named Stephen Donohue — goes […]
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More censorship for student newspapers:
Some Noblesville High School students say they are being censored after the superintendent of Noblesville schools decided that the school paper will not be allowed to run a controversial article on oral sex.
[snip]
[Superintendent Dr. Lynn] Lehman agreed that the subject was important to students, but not suitable for a student paper.
“Upon […]
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What does this guy have that I don’t?*
One year ago today, I asked the readers of kottke.org to become micropatrons and support my efforts in producing the site for a year. Over the course of three weeks, people generously sent in their financial support, giving me enough to pay my salary for the entire year […]
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