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PeoriaChronicle

• Another D150 administrator put on paid leave March 16, 2010
  District 150 Director of Technology and Library Media Services Mary Ward has been put on paid administrative leave as the district performs an internal investigation. If past is prelude, taxpayers may be paying her to do nothing for a long time. The last administrator to be put on paid administrative leave, Mary Davis, [...] […]
• “Word on the Web” has Urich news conference video March 16, 2010
  The Journal Star recently started a new blog based on John Sharp and Karen McDonald’s Monday column “Word on the Street.” The blog is called “Word on the Web,” and so far it has been very good. New content is added regularly, and the information is much more timely than the weekly print [...] […]
• Transportation Secretary speaks out on . . . health care reform? March 15, 2010
  Talk about your full-court press from the Obama administration. Even Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is advocating for the administration’s health care bill now: Yesterday, I voiced my support for health care reform with an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. I am grateful to those who saw my speaking-out for what it was: a former [...] […]

Merle Widmer’s Peoria Watch

• FireFly - What Community Leaders Said March 15, 2010
  "Calling FireFly 'the poster child' of Peoria NEXT", National City regional president Doug Stewart said that technology was not in short supply in Peoria. "Ideas are not our problem. The issue is management, first, and capital second. If we are going to hit a home run, FireFly is the closest thing we've got."Doug was probab […]
• FireFly Closer to Burning Bright March 15, 2010
  So wrote Molly Parker, reporter for the JS in May of 2007. The resolution by the County to guarantee, along with the city, a six million dollar loan to FireFly by National City Bank, State Representative Dave Leitch, Vice-President, who personally urged the County Board to approve this loan. Quoting Ms. Parker,"The resolution passed both committees by v […]
• FireFly & G&D Integrated March 14, 2010
  On 5/28/07, Jennifer Davis and Molly Parker wrote "Finding a FireFly Fix Over Breakfast" in their 'Word on the Street' Column in the JS. Quoting the column, " braving buckets of snow, former Mayor Dick Carver, current Mayor Jim Ardis, state Representative Dave Leitch and a Peoria businessman showed up for breakfast at Le Peep. Over t […]

The Community Word

• Women’s History Month
• Long fight for U.S. Senate seat begins
• The gift of life
• Progress Report of Downtown Library’s Renovation
• Remembering — Straight Talk March 2010
• District 150 needs business, board to clean house
• Northern exposure — Dale’s Column March 2010
• I was banned — City Beat March 2010
• Stop Playing Politics With Our Lives!
• Be Still: Doors and Windows column March 2010

CW Notes

• Heartland Festival Orchestra 2010-2011 Season March 17, 2010
• The Peoria Cabaret Theatre Presents Local Premiere of Jonathan Larson’s “Tick Tick Boom” March 17, 2010
• First United Methodist Church Lent Services in Peoria March 17, 2010
• RECYCLING CONTAINERS March 17, 2010
• Google Plays in Peoria – Google Parade March 17, 2010
• WATER QUALITY REPORTS SHOW HIGH-QUALITY WATER SERVICE FROM ILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER March 17, 2010
• Illinois Mutual’s Year of Caring Grant Applications Available March 17, 2010
• Google Peoria Parade on March 22nd! March 17, 2010
• Black History According to Children to be Broadcast March 17, 2010
• League of Women Voters Invites the Public to learn about Peoria NEXT Innovation Center March 17, 2010

CapitolFax

• This just in… No delay in Blagojevich trial March 17, 2010
• Question of the day March 17, 2010
• *** UPDATED x1 *** Raw videos of Madigan, Quinn and Cullerton March 17, 2010
• Blog commenter wisdom March 17, 2010
• Statehouse roundup March 17, 2010

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