Today’s news aganda, 5/31/2006
May 31, 2006 in The Wire
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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 input from the public on the design on two new school buildings, has cancelled today’s meeting that was supposed to be for this purpose. Not that the district gives a rat’s a$$ that the public doesn’t like the idea of building a new school in the middle of Glen Oak Park, but that’s another story.
Minor league baseball umpires have ended their strike. Which leads me to ask: They were on strike?
You know all those news subdivisions that are sprouting up in north Peoria? It seems that we don’t have enough water to keep growing north. So what’s the solution? Is it to start limiting growth and encouraging people to settle in the older parts of the city, perhaps by rehabbing older homes and making neighborhoods less amenable to slum lords and gangsters? Nah. We have to get more water. We can’t deprive all those politically connected developers and real estate agents of an income, can we?
WMBD 1470 — The wailing and gnashing of teeth can stop. It turns out all those District 150 teachers who were sent notices they wouldn’t be rehired will be working after all.
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May 31st, 2006 at 1:34 pm
On the topic of the Park District mysteriousness….
Does anyone know anything about the Peoria Park District Scholarship program? I called there today and I was told that a committee decides who does and does not receive scholarships. The person “in charge” of the program is out of the office for an indeterminable amount of time and there was no one else that could answer my questions. I would think that there would be an established formula to determine who receives scholarships rather than a committee.