There’s a fantastic article on Peoria Chiefs manager Ryne Sandberg on the ESPN Website:
What’s different is how the chronically soft-spoken second baseman has gone about this new experiment, managing with a Lou Piniella-like fire he rarely flashed in his playing days. The same quiet, introverted kid from Spokane, Wash., who was ejected just twice in [...]

Via AskJack:
Motorists should expect a right lane closure on westbound I-74 from Forrest Hill Avenue to Sterling Avenue from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, for landscaping. A work zone speed limit of 45 mph will be in effect during construction.
Motorists should also expect a left lane closure on westbound War Memorial Drive [...]

Some linkage to keep my readers amused:

Chef Kevin: They can have my garlic when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
C.J. is mapping Peoria crime. The alternative Zephyr newspaper in Galesburg used to print a crime map every week.
Scott Janz is ticked ’cause he’s paying twice for garbage pick up when he doesn’t have [...]

Some updates:

I will be attending, but not liveblogging, tonight’s council meeting. I probably won’t have a report posted until tomorrow. Sorry.
I have some new posts up at The Blog Pundit and Bill’s Content.
And believe it or not, I even have a few posts up at heinleinblog.

A brief look at what the media is saying about itself:

A columnist says getting slimed by Bill O’Reilly is a honor. I imagine it’s sorta like being called a Dorito-eating basement-dweller by PJS editorial page overlord Mike Bailey. Hat tip to Romenesko.
AOL has decided it needs to run its news in a blog-style format. Jeff [...]

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve given pit bulls a rough time on this blog. So in the interest of fairness, I feel compelled to post this video, which provides at least a little evidence not all pits are vicious killers.
Of course, for all we know, this animal just likes playing with his [...]

Kudos to C.J. Summers for his post about the shenanigans at the Peoria Library Board. For those who didn’t read the post, Monday’s Word on the Street kudos-worthy-column in the Journal Star stated:
…At-large Councilman Gary Sandberg, the library’s new council liaison, discovered that the library board’s building committee voted May 15 to recommend that the [...]

From a speech at the bi-annual Newspaper Quality Improvement Technical Meeting, via Newspapers and Technology:
“Newspapers are under great stress,” said Norm Harbin, vice president of business and technical development at Flint Group as he addressed the group. “What are things we can do to transform newspapers and get back to [...]

It’s nearly 5 p.m. and this is my first post. That’s unforgivable. Well, actually it is, considering I spent all morning getting my mother’s brand-new Dell set up at her house. Bad blogger, but a good son.
So use this post as an open thread and enjoy yourselves.

A judge rules that the government didn’t follow the rules, so a landowner gets his property back, only by now it’s a highway. Yeah, it’s a big screwed-up mess. But any time eminent domain is overturned, I feel a little bit better about America. To bad they don’t give back to widowed senior citizens the [...]

I’m a big fan of this new search engine, Mahalo, which beats the heck out of Google when it comes to actually relevant results. A recent New York Times article on Mahalo is sure to generate some business there way, too:
All of the links listed in Mahalo send the user to Web pages that contain [...]

I found this ominous comment at the Bradley Fans Website:
I just spoke today with an employee of the PJ Star. He said that the company will be dealing with four different unions, but expect significant changes/layoffs to be announced by this fall, as cost-cutting measures get implemented.
There’s a log of debate on this post about [...]

Granite Broadcasting’s Chief Executive W. Don Cornwell wants the $460,000 in bonuses owed to him while the company, owner of WEEK TV, was in bankruptcy, which is “raising the ire” (a phrase found only in the media of creditors and shareholders, and no doubt the lowly peons who work for them. From CNN Money:
Cornwell, [...]

Cutline: (AP) — US actress Cameron Diaz, right, takes pictures of press photographers as Sol Guy, an MTV Canada host, behind left, and guide Freddy Quispe stand with her during their tour of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu near Cuzco, Peru, Friday, June 22, 2007. Cameron’s bag reads in Chinese ‘Serve the People,’ a [...]

Blegging: Asking the denizens of the blogosphere for assistance. Basically, begging via blog (via Blogossary.
Notice the link near the top of the sidebar to the immediate right of this post. You can click on it and use a credit card or PayPal account to make an anonymous donation to help defray the costs of operating [...]