Today’s news: Crime, like the Journal Star edit page, is a pain in the ass
Today’s news links via the Journal Star:
- At first, you have to wonder how stupid a former police officer has to be to try to solicit an undercover officer. Then you realize he was fired for misconduct, so the guy obviously lacks impulse control, as do the vast majority of criminals. The reader comments on this are a hoot, too.
- Whatever caused this eatery to catch fire, I’m willing to bet it wasn’t friction from the blisteringly fast service.
- Peoria and Pekin are upset about water rate hikes. Gee, if only there were some way to give local residents some control over prices (to prevent gouging) while at the same time giving local officials the power to ensure necessary repairs and upgrades are done.
- Ray LaHood has picked up the Outstanding Service Award from Spoon River College. He attended SRC in 1963. Apparently, Peoria’s own Illinois Central College wasn’t good enough for him. Well, that and the fact ICC wasn’t founded until 1967.
- I love Morton. Well, not really, but I love the sort of crime that spews out of this repressed little burg. A couple decades ago, there was a guy breaking into parked cars and pleasuring himself onto the the leather seats. Now there’s a guy driving around shooting women in the ass with blowgun darts. And once again, the comments are a hoot.
- The anonymous drone who penned the today’s edit on the JS’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page says that if the city sells the Gateway Building, then it might as well sell off the Peoria Civic Center and stop trying to help build a museum on the former Sears Block. Finally! The Journal Star editorial board gets it.
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