It’s a quiet Sunday, and I have some time to catch up on the Blogosphere. Naturally, the result is a local blog round-up:

• First, I’d like to offer my belated sympathies to the friends, family and co-workers of former Peoria newsie Randy Salerno, who dies a a snowmobile accident Edgar Sandoval and Shannon Tebben offer their memories. And I might as well note that Shannon is a new Peoria blogger, and Edgar has a spiffy new theme.
• And speaking of broadcast newsies who blog, Jen Christensen is blogging up a storm at News Anchor Mom. And fellow HONewsie Mark Welp is having some fun with his site.
• And blogger/WCBU news director writes that WMBD 31’s news director Jody Davis is apparently no longer with the station.
• And I’m late in mentioning my regrets of the fact that HOINews producer Meghan Fischer is leaving Peoria. She has posted on her blog since then, and I found this post particularly amusing. In my experience, a customer in Peoria is about 100 percent more likely to be treated rudely by an service worker than he or she is to witness a manager bullying a service worker.
• WHOI has a pretty big presence in the Peoria Blogosphere. That’s appropriate, considering that corporate owner Barrington Broadcasting has a goal of earning 50 percent of its revenue from the Internet.
• Brad Carter often complains that I don’t read his blog. Well, I did today and I’m linking to this post about Peoria’s electronic voting machines. He’s a fan of Tom Bride, executive director of the City of Peoria Election Commission, even if he’s suspicious of electronic voting.
• The Junior League is pucking around with the Peoria Playhouse. Heh heh heh. Seriously, it’s a fund raiser for the playhouse with the Peoria Rivermen.
• Peoria Illinoisan catches Bradley University basketball program behaving badly, and getting called out by the new president. I wonder if the alumni will start turning on her, like they do any most Serious Basketball Colleges when the administration doesn’t look the other way.
• Merle Widmer also is a bit peeved with the basketball program. He also had good things to say about the staff at Hines School.
• Pod blogs never die. They just podfade away.
• Dunlap-based blog RLO Today doesn’t think much of Aaron Schock, based on a personal encounter.

UPDATED: Fixed some spelling issues.

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