Peoria Pundit

Links via the Journal Star:

• There are some ideas on how to restructure Manual High School. Too bad the public won’t hear them.
• When you pay a consultant to advise you on what insurance carrier to you, you assume that the consultant isn’t getting money from the insurance carrier they recommend. Hence, Cat’s lawsuit.
• I was under the impression that one of the reasons District 150 already pays its two associate superintendents more than $114,885 annually was so that they would be on hand to help the current superintendent. So why the need to pump their salaries while Ken Hinton is on medical leave? Aren’t these people considered management? These guys do NOT miss a trick do they? They sort of remind me of consultants.
• OK, so from now on, and this time they mean it, if you don’t have a working kitchen in your joint, you don’t get a restaurant-style liquor license. Seriously. They aren’t kidding this time. Just try it.
• If you are paying pals to set fires, try to not be the first guy from the volunteer fire department to arrive at the scene.
• Whaddayaknow. The feds also give out grants to help people kick their drug habits, and not just to arrest them.
• The union is angry the county laid off three part-time janitors and outsourced the work.
• Maybe they should try a spray-paint buy-back program in Bellevue?
• The family and friends of Rakiem Campbell are sad and angry that he is being sent away to prison. Let’s look at the facts. His sentence for a long string of crimes, including killing a woman with a brick tossed from an overpass, is 22 years, but he almost certainly will serve a little more than 10, thanks to “good behavior” rules. When he get out, he’ll be 26 years old. That’s the same age as his victim. So lets not annoy the rest of society by complaining the sentence is too harsh. It is absolutely NOT.
• I wonder if the “moment of silence” means that no one is allowed to complain if some student announces after the fact that he or she is using the time to silently offer up a prayer to Satan?
• Apparently, JS reporter John Sharp is saving up all the juicy controversy and anger stemming from Monday’s budget meeting for next week’s Word on the Street column. Gah! What a bland report from a genuinely interesting meeting.

Tags: district 150, Journal Star, Ken Hinton, Rakiem Campbell, Word on the Street

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