Condolences to the Cardinals family. #
No. Seriously. Can we talk mushrooms? #

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Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis today declined to get in the ring and mud wrestle with Kevin Lyons. Ardis has too much dignity to stoop to Lyons’ level and react to comments on why the state’s attorney chooses to not attend and participate in a series of meetings with police, judicial and community leaders that are […]

Via The Capitol Fax Blog:
It may be no surprise to some, but new polling shows Barack Obama is doing better with hardcore Illinois primary voters than Hillary Clinton is doing with voters in her home state of New York. Also, voters are split over whether Obama should be more critical of Chicago corruption, and […]

Knight in Dragonland took me to task for using who he considered a biased, anti-environmentalist source for my recent post about how compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) aren’t as environmentally sound as some proponents suggest. Perhaps he might find California Assembly member Lloyd Levine, author of a mandatory CFL bill, to be a bit more […]

Well, that’s what the City of Peoria says. It’s for a work order following a ticket At-large Peoria City Council Member Gary Sandberg received in 2004 for having litter and debris on his home at 1810 N. Bigelow. How long between notification and city clean-up? Ten days, perhaps less. And it was all stuff Sandberg […]

Either this woman is lying through her teeth or one or more members of the Peoria Police Department shot an unarmed man and planted a drop-down weapon.
I’m inclined to believe police version of events, namely that police responded to a domestic disturbance call and were confronted by a male occupant who simply refused to drop […]

Steve Jobs tells me I’m his newest friend. Hey, Steve, lend me $20 till payday, huh? #
I hate Wisconsin Dells. Nuke them. Nuke them all. #
Vasper: The Blogosphere IS my church. #
Attn: Twitterverse: Boy is my site acting up. All the lovely red X’s. I blame Bush. #
Query: If Vasper’s is an A-lister now, what […]

Just wondering how the ’shroom hunting is going. Too early, too late? Would love to hear some comments from those “in the field”. I can only eek out a few hours this week so would find it helpful to know when the peak time might be. I know the shroomers generally clam up about where […]

Cutline: A section of highway lies burned and crumbled in Emeryville, Calif., after a tanker carrying gasoline exploded on Sunday, April 29, 2007. In the resulting blaze, a section of freeway that funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed. The truck’s driver walked away from the scene and called a taxi, which took […]

Envirowackos looooooove telling up how much money we could save by switching to those annoying high-cost, low-energy use compact fluorescent light bulbs. In fact, the tree-huggers have got some state legislators convinced that these infernal devices need to be made mandatory.
Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, ME., learned that these things are neither “green,” nor are they […]

Sad news for the Cardinals:
Josh Hancock, a key member of the bullpen that helped the St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series last season, was killed in a car crash early Sunday.
The Cardinals postponed their home game Sunday night against the Chicago Cubs.
Police said the 29-year-old Hancock was alone in his 2007 Ford Explorer when […]

I’ve told people many, many times to never, never blog about work. You never know what’s going to tick off your boss. Apparently, your college career (and eventual your job prospects) can suffer too, thanks to Zero Tolerance:
A Pennsylvania woman claims that her teaching career has been derailed by college administrators who unfairly disciplined her […]

Via the The Washington Post:
Two years ago, former senator John Edwards of North Carolina, gearing up for his second run at the Democratic presidential nomination, gave a speech decrying the “two different economies in this country: one for wealthy insiders and then one for everybody else.”
Four months later, he began working for the kind of […]

The Peoria Journal Star’s award-winning editorial page has written the paper’s official position on the fact that there have been eight murders so far this year. They are opposed.

I wonder who got shot in Peoria today? #
Listening to my beloved Cubs trying to lose to the Cards. #
Ron Santo didn’t make the trip to Saint Louis. #
Crap. Bases loaded. Hit batter? Nope. It hit his friggin’ shirt. #
Demper gets out of the inning w/bases loaded. Suck it,Sh*tbirds! #
All things D is THE place […]