I’m taking the weekend off. Feel free to comment on any subject.

The PeoriaIllinoisan delivered a well-deserved smackdown to WMBD 1470’s Jamie Markley for the talk show hosts demonstrated ignorance of how a real journalist works.

I knew that it was just a matter of time before the administration at Illinois Central College would seize control of the student newspaper.
It has been slightly more than a month since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities have the right to censor student newspapers if the papers are printed by the [...]

Kiyoshi Martinez says that you know you’ve made it when you cited as a official resource in an almanac. He came to this conclusion after he consulted the “Almanac of Illinois Politics 2006” and noticed a section on blogs:

I’m glad they got my address right. Kudos to Archpundit, Rich Miller and Illini Pundit.
On one hand, [...]

Call me crazy, but when you call any black person, let alone Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a “coon” on the air, you should pretty much expect to lose your job as a radio personality.
David Lenihan,KTRS

Is everyone in the Bush administration congenitally stupid? I am beginning to wonder:
In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.
The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. [...]

Kudos to Molly Parker for her post-election follow-up on the Edwin Eisendrath very strong showing against Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Eisendrath did almost no campaigning in Central Illinois and had no resources for a decent media campaign. Yet he captured 30 percent of the vote to Blago’s 70 percent, and actually won in Champaign, Cumberland, [...]

He joined up, imported more than two-hundred posts from his old Blogger site and instantly became the most prolific blogger I have. His site is called “A Dark and Quite Room.”
This is his own introduction:
So, a brief introduction. My name is Seth Ben-Ezra. I’m 28, married, and a father of five. I [...]

I agree with Polly Peoria. Common Sense Peoria is strong right out of the gate with great posts about the state senate race, licencing landlords and city annexation.
Common Sense Dude is an anonymous blogger. If he ever wants to abandon Blog*Spot, there’s a spot open at BlogPeoria.

I have a good feeling about the two new members of the Peoria School Board.
I had no beef with incumbentSteve Morris, who lost to Jim Stowell. I chatted with both of them for an article I wrote of the Community Word. And I found both of them engaging and concerned, with good ideas.
And I was [...]

I thought Barbara Van Auken was going to slug Clyde Gulley last night.
Some background. I’m not a huge fan of the Renaissance Park, nee Med-Tec District. I am worried the thing could turn into another TIF district or enterprise zone as the snap of someone’s fingers. But as long as it avoids that pitfall and [...]

Instead of betting a pizza and/or rib dinner over the outcome of Thursday’s Bradley University/Memphis game, Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis had another idea.
Via a press release:
Mayor Jim Ardis is asking the community to “Red Out” in honor of Bradley University. Everyone is asked to wear red and white on Thursday, March 23rd to show their [...]

I’m glad to know that the city is now openly discussing municipal WiFi. What displeases me it learning that there’s some effort to link municipal WiFi to the surveillance cameras that seem to have become an integral part of the city’s future crime-fighting plans.
Folks, the city tried surveillance cameras before. They didn’t work, and I [...]

It happened fast.
I left work at 1 a.m. last night and the sky was overcast and no snowfall at all in the Pioneer Park area of north Peoria. I told a co-worker that I thought Peoria dodged the bullet and the winter storm that had been predicted must have missed us.
By the time I [...]

Yep. Take a look at this map (huge pdf file) showing that it wants to do during the next 10-15 years. Bradley University already owns the east side of Maplewood Avenue from West Main Street to West Bradley. The plans include including tearing out all those lovely old homes on the west side of Maplewood [...]