It turns out Barack Obama is one of those people.
Hat tip: SCAM.

Chi-Trib columnist/blogger Eric Zorn notes a case of bicycling enthusiasts who lack perspective. Gee … like we’ve never heard of THAT here in Peoria.

From the City of Peoria:
City crews have worked primary routes by plowing and treating as needed.  Crews have moved to residential areas to plow as needed.  Temperatures are expected to rise close to 40 degrees , and should melt the snow that remains.

Jim Cramer, the easily agitated host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” program, doesn’t think much of GateHouse Media or the investment company that owns it:
Fortress Investment Group’s IPO might have been a boon for its partners, Cramer said, but it was a bust for investors.
Chairman and CEO Wesley Edens cashed in over $200 million in stock […]

As far as I’m concerned, February 2008 sucked the big one. From the city of Peoria, another snow update:
We are expecting 1-2 inches of snow overnight with the possibility of freezing rain.  City crews will treat primary intersections with a sand/salt mix, and plow as needed.  Snow will tapper off by morning.  Temperatures will help […]

I received this via e-mail, and I thought I’d post it anonymously. I disagree with most of it:
The Himmel and Wilson Strategic Plan looks like the consultants told the Library Board what they wanted to hear and sell the public, not what they needed to hear. There is certainly nothing close to cutting […]

NOTE: Somewhere in this post, there’s a joke to be made about smoking a few fags, but this is a serious blog and I am far too classy a person for that.
Anyway … here’s the whole sordid story:
State Sen. Dave Koehler is proposing legislation that would legalize civil unions in Illinois and entitle unmarried couples […]

The monopoly-loving newspaper chain just regurgitated some of the newspapers it recently gobbled up:
After nearly three decades, the ownership of the Yankton (South Dakota) Daily Press & Dakotan is returning home.
An agreement was announced Wednesday by which the Press & Dakotan will be purchased by Yankton Media, Inc., headed by current P&D publisher Gary Wood, […]

Danny Ruffin, whose use of force to remove a combative former girlfriend – with whom he was growing bored – from his campus apartment left the woman bleeding and needing treatment at a local hospital, has been reinstated to the Bradley University basketball team for the remainder of the season.
 

What has happened to America? There was a time in this country when people were actually admired for pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and finding a way to make a living, if not prosper, from their hard work and innovation.

C.J. Summers took a look at the figures, and it turns out that the pro-museum push poll conducted by the County of Peoria actually found that at no time, under no circumstance mentioned, do voters support any kind of tax increase to pay for the regional museum that Caterpillar and other movers and shakers want […]

So, I agree to an interview with Illinois Issues about Aaron Schock (the guy said I’m an expert on Aaron, which made me laugh a bit). At the end, he gave me his boss’s name and number says she’s doing an article on blogs.
Like most media interviews, I expect that they will use one or […]

The Journal Star’s latest story has even more details. The victim sorta recanted the first statement she made to police, saying she can’t be sure how her injuries happened. And she expressed concerns about his being treated unfairly because he’s a basketball player.
If Danny Ruffin and the other witness are to be believed, his one […]

I attended Tuesday’s presentation on marketability of downtown residential development, held in the Peoria City Council chambers.
I tried to use my nifty new digital voice recorder. But because speaker Erik Doersching, executive vice president of Tracy Cross & Associates, didn’t think it necessary to actually use one of the many microphones available to him, the […]

I just saw the most amazing report on HOINews.
Reporter Ian Schwartz was granted access to the operating room where Percy Baker, the former leader of Peoria’s Carver Center, received a heart transplant. The images were very graphic, but not offensive or shocking in the least (owing, in no small part, to Schwartz’s deft presentation and […]