Peoria ChronicleI neglected to read today’s comments this morning. That was a mistake.
Folks, I have had a consistent policy. This blog is NOT the place to go to discuss whether or nor ANYONE is or is not gay. Period. I don’t write posts about it, and I delete comments that do so.
I had to take down […]
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Links via the Journal Star:
Sometimes I really think the Journal Star headline writers have no idea how their work is being perceived. For example: “Hyde a ‘distinguished’ servant.” Do we really need the quotes marks for one word? Apparently the “editors” do.
Well, thank God we now know what the “top priorities” are each of […]
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Eyebrows McGee has blogged on the subject of grocery shopping. It triggered what started as a comment, but I cut most of it out and turned it into rambling a post of my own on the subject. (WARNING: Stream of Consciousness Ahead)
When I was little I thought it was cool […]
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I’m devoting some time and energy to The Blog Peoria Project recently. I have some posts up, as well as some new features to benefit members. In the next few months, I plan to make the site more of an online community, with chat and instant messaging among members.
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PeoriaIllinoisan says he’s sitting on his hands even though he’s got “fireballs coming out of my fingertips.”
Gee, could it be that PI, a big booster of the Peoria Playhouse Children’s Museum, is just a tad POed at the headline above today’s Journal Star article: “Children’s museum funding drags.” Caterpillar has just announced that it will […]
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CampusProgress interviewed Rolling Stone political reporter Matt Taibbi, and this exchange had me rolling on the floor:
CampusProgress: You wrote a column in the New York Press a few years back referring to journalism as “shoveling coal for Satan.” I believe you also said that journalism as a career was worse than being a worker in […]
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Retired Rep. Henry Hyde, who died this morning at a Chicago-area hospital, never recovered from heart surgery. Initial media reports identify him as being best known for his strong opposition to abortion (a position with which I disagreed, by the way). He took a principled position in opposition to the use of forfeiture as it […]
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A few of the songs I enjoy during the Christmas Season - most don’t get a lot of air-play.
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
Christmas Time All Over the World by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Mistletoe & Holly by Frank Sinatra
Baby, It’s Cold Outside by Dean Martin
And the Angels Cried by Alan Jackson w/ Allison Krause
If We Make It […]
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Kudos to the Journal Star’s Clare Jellick. Once again, she’s used her j-blog to insert leftover material from her notebook into the public discussion, this time to provide some background to Tuesday’s article about Peoria School District 150’s sudden decision to consider locating its new East Bluff school at the site of the now-closed White […]
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I heard today that the city has chartered a new neighborhood association, the Jackson Corners Neighborhood Association. The JCNA serves the area bordered by Knoxville, Forrest Hill, McClure and Prospect.
The fledgling association counts 13 members, and is likely to grow because of aggressive door-to-door recruiting.
The new association shares the exact same official boundaries as the […]
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… so he’s listening to people who do:
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ITEM NO. 5: Communication from the City Manager and Corporation Counsel Requesting Adoption of an ORDINANCE Amending CHAPTER 20 of the Code of the City of Peoria Pertaining to REAL ESTATE Used for ILLEGAL POSSESSION, USE or SALE of ILLEGAL DRUGS Such as Cannabis, Narcotics, Methamphetamine or Controlled Substances.
George Jacob: Most landlords are good. Not […]
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ITEM NO. 4: Communication from Council Member Patrick Nichting Requesting Approval of a RESOLUTION Pertaining to KELLAR BRANCH RAIL USE
Sandberg asks for privledge of the floor.
Sharon Deckard: Spoke to STB. Message if and when you pass your resolution and pass it on to elected official, they will send it back to STB for replay. […]
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Continued:
ITEM NO. 3: Communication from the City Manager and Director of Economic Development Requesting Approval to Enter into an AGREEMENT with TRACY CROSS & ASSOCIATES, INC. as the CONSULTING FIRM to Prepare and Conduct a BROAD HOUSING MARKET SURVEY for the Demand for Residential Development in Downtown Peoria, the Warehouse District, and the Heart of […]
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The meeting starts in about 30 minutes and the chamber is full of regulars, and Tiger Scouts from Den 9, Pack 158 at St. Vincent’s. There are some kids here from Dunlap who are getting extra credit.
I have been asked to not hit my keyboard quite so loudly. It is apparently preventing people from hearing […]
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