This just in: A legal opinion for City of Peoria Corporation Counsel Randy Ray:
Double parking is illegal.
Wow. That’s really going out on a limb.
Now, the challenge will be to find any example of any delivery van being given a ticket for double parking ANYWHERE and ANYTIME in downtown Peoria.
Or does the city of Peoria enforce […]

Willy Nilly ought to email me whenever be posts. He does it so infrequently, I often miss entertaining posts like this one:
This week’s Word of the Street works overtime to provide cover for Ray Lahood. The first snip tells us what a great mediator LaHood is for stepping in to try to broker a compromise […]

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It seems the big meeting between all the players in the Glen Oak Park/School controversy ended with nothing more than a decision to meet again in 10 days. At least that’s what Rep. Ray LaHood told WMBD 1470.
Peoria School District 150, which claims that it wants […]

There’s nothing inaccurate at all about Pam Adams column in today’s Journal Star, or its headline: “Draft boards ready to be activated.” Yes, there still are draft boards, and they are collecting names of young men as they turn 18. People are still are being asked to serve on these boards. And yes, it certainly […]

Terry Bibo tells us that Dennis Diamond, retired featured editor at the Journal Star, has died after a battle with ALS.
My sympathies to his family, friends and co-workers. I remember Dennis from my long-ago internship at the Journal Star. I didn’t get a chance to write features for him, but I remember him as a […]

I’m no longer boycotting downtown Peoria or Peoria in general. But I still doubt I’m going to be doing much business downtown.
The boycott didn’t last long. After the Blogger Bash at Whitey’s broke up, some of us headed over the Steak ‘n’ Shake in East Peoria for a bite, but they were horribly understaffed and […]

For those who missed it and keep asking me about it, here it is: Aaron Schock — ticket scalper:
When Aaron Schock was in high school, his job was to buy tickets.
His employer would order tickets to, say, a Garth Brooks concert, and Schock would call Ticketmaster. He would purchase the maximum number of tickets allowed […]

Area Cub fans tempted to root, root, root for another home team after the Chicago Cubs’ terrible May might regain their die-hard faith by seeing one of Cub fan-dom’s most inspiring movies, “This Old Cub.”
The 2004 documentary is scheduled to show at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, at downtown Peoria’s Apollo Theater.
Starring legendary Cub […]

Stay away from downtown. Shop elsewhere. You are not wanted.
That’s what I’m going to be doing from now on. I may live outside the city of Peoria, but I certainly spend money there. I’ll be doing as much shopping as possible in East Peoria Creve Coeur, West Peoria, unincorporated Peoria County.
I finally got the […]

Just a reminder: The Blogger Bash will start at 8 p.m. tonight at Whitey’s Tip Top Inn, 2601 N. Sheridan Road. Bloggers, commenters and readers alike are welcome. Since it’s being held in a public place, anyone can show up. We can’t stop you.
Heh.

I watch the network and cable news shows (when I get a chance) and I visit news Websites quite often. But it wasn’t until I was browsing Bill Baar’s West Side this evening until I learned about violent revolts in Iran. Gee, how can this possibly be important, considering how we’re inching closer to war […]

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post discusses indications that Sen. Barack Obama may be planning a presidential run in 2008. Specifically, he’s brought in two Democratic consultants with experience in national races: Anita Dunn and Minyon Moore:
Dunn served as a senior adviser to Bill Bradley in 2000 and is playing a similar role for Indiana […]

I’m sitting here dumbfounded. More so than usual, anyway.
This morning, I sat at this PC and made five posts. Only one of which appears on this site, the one about the spoils of the drug war. I thought I had published them all. But they aren’t even saved in “draft” form. They are gone completely. […]

He’s just now figured out that laws frequently are neither rational nor consistent.
Actually, they do make sense, once you finally realize laws are not designed to improve the lives of the governed, but to improve the lives of those who govern.

Thank goodness for the War on Drugs:
BROOKSVILLE [Fla.] - Daymond E. Taylor Jr. is the Brooksville Police Department’s biggest benefactor.
His 50-inch television sits squarely in the conference room.
His plush leather sofas decorate Chief Ed Tincher’s office.
His sport utility vehicle, with $30,000 of stereo equipment inside, is parked in the motor pool, repainted with police slogans […]