Peoria ChronicleBefore there were blogs, there were online forums. This forum on and about firefighters is hosting an interesting exchange of ideas and information about the about fire department based paramedic services. Of course Dr. John Carroll is in the middle of the debate.
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The good news is that Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock finally tied the knot. Boy, I bet he was sick of waiting, huh? I wonder if she was nervous and giddy as a schoolgirl on their wedding night? She wore white when she married Tommy Lee. Actually, it was a white bikini, as I recall. […]
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Mel Gibson went on a anti-Semitic tirade after he was pulled over in Malibu and arrested on drunk driving charges:
“Fucking Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?”
As I seem to recall, I took a little of crap for this post Gibson’s defense of his Holocaust denying […]
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The word I’m hearing is that everything is almost a “go” for Steve Fandel, the guy who’s trying to convert the former Gaslight II bar at the top of West Main Street Hill into a up-scale pub/eatery. As you may recall, the Peoria City Council several months ago gave tentative approval for a liquor license, […]
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Full disclosure: I am a former writer and assistant editor of the Harbinger, and I consider retired adviser Mike Foster to be a friend. My two cents: Still, were I not associated with the Harbinger, I would be appalled by what Illinois Central College has done to this consistently award-winning student newspaper. As hard as […]
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If I’m going to fall of the eye candy wagon, I might as well land with the biggest thud as possible. So I present, for the first time in more than a year, a Drew Barrymore Update:
Barrymore, who stars in “Lucky You,” a movie set at the 2003 World Series of Poker, said she missed […]
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I know I’m not supposed to be posting pics of pretty girls just to be doing it, but this pic of the lovely Miss Johansson is just too good to resist. So I’m using it to illustrate this article about Scarlett’s movie habits:
Actress Scarlett Johansson has come up with a disguise to watch movies without […]
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Roger John, executive director of the Peoria Housing Authority, says in a letter to the editor of the JS:
It is unfortunate that the District 150 school site decision has polarized so many people. It appears that emotion, rather than reason and fact, is driving so much of the discussion.
I believe Superintendent Ken Hinton is looking […]
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The headline WMBD1470’s Website reads ‘Bacteria in Lake,’ which I found amusing because if you have a lake without bacteria, you’ve got a serious problem. The story is more more accurate:
Pekin city officials are telling people not to swim in Lake Arlann - after tests there showed potentially dangerous bacteria in the water. It appears, […]
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In light of the Charlotte Observer photographer who got canned for changing the color of the sky in a newspaper photograph, I found this passage in a Seatle Weekly column an amusing look at the way things used to be.
I was once a P-I copy boy who carried art orders from editors to the […]
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A suburban Chicago weekly — onwed by the same group that owns the Chicago Sun-Times, lets four middle-aged Rotarians pick the front-page stories that that’s day’s newspaper. Since middle-aged Rotarians are the target audience for most suburban newspapers anyway, I doubt anyone would have noticed the difference had they not bothered to announce they did […]
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I bet you didn’t know that smoking in bars and prostitution are the same thing.
That’s just one message I’m getting from today’s Journal Star article about the start of a campaign to get local government to ban smoking in restaurants and bars
Historically, Peoria has held its own as a rough-and-tumble town. Prostitution, for instance, was […]
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Hey, don’t look at me. I didn’t say it. Jack Shafer of Slate did. Papers what cover local news are attracting readers that are far dumber than those who read the New York Times, for example. By extention, Shafer insists, newspapers that increase local coverage to comete with the New York Times, for example, are […]
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Back when I first started writing the “Blotter” column in the River City Times, I used to include items about people who were driving down the street when their vehicle were hit by rocks and other objects thrown at them. Now that it’s summer and children are all over the place, the number of these […]
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Via WMBD 1470: Specialists Jimmie Soto and Luis Aponte from Chicago, members of the 1744th Transportation Company in Streator , saved a 16-year-old kid’s life last week:
Military officials say the soldiers were on their way back to Camp Atterbury last Friday when they spotted an accident involving a semi and a car on I-65 in […]
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