A source very close to the situation tells me that one of the five at-large members of the Peoria City Council plans to resign in order to seek the position as Peoria City Manager.
This council member member has apparently secured six votes from the remaining 10 members of the council. Should that fail, however, he […]
Now this is a newspaper correction.
Randall is back from Vegas, and perhaps he should have stayed in Vegas if he finds it so preferable to Peoria.
Someone notify John Plevka: The printing press also grants a power that’s easilly abused. The owners of this printing press wants to pay anyone who’ll tell them that video games […]
The links are via the Journal Star. The snarky comments are my own:
It’s good to hear that Percy Baker is doing well after heart transplant surgery and is itching to start helping the community again, this time by advocating for organ donation.
Hey, if I was stranded in Peoria Heights, I’d get a little hot under […]
Here’s a start-of-the-work-week tour of the Blogosphere:
Long before GateHouse Media bought the Peoria Journal Star, I was writing about how Peoria’s only daily newspaper skewed its editorials and coverage to promote some local candidates at the expense of others (here’s one example, out of many). According to this site, another GateHouse newspaper is getting in […]
My sympathies go out to the family, friends and comrades of Staff Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin, the member of Bartonville-based 724th Transportation Company, who as captured following an ambush April 9th, 2004. His captors released a low-quality video of Maupin that depicting his murder, but it was not clear until now that is what happened. […]
That would be Rich Miller and Larry Handlin of The Capitol Fax Blog and Arch Pundit, respecitively, for being named the best political blogs in Illinois by the Washington Posts’ “The Fix” column.
Some tidbits:
No, I am NOT going to change the theme.
WordPress — my blogging platform — has recently released version 2.5. I’ll be upgrading soon. Probably Tuesday. I can’t afford to fall behind, lest I find that I can’t get support anymore. After that, I’ll update The BlogPeoria Project.
Blogging HAS been light recently. I’ll try to […]
For those who were wondering, I’ve moved this week’s PeoriaPunditRadio show to this Tuesday. The scheduled topic is the situation in Tibet, plus local news and information, plus two “Fibber McGee and Molly” episodes.
The show can be heard here. Callers are welcome at (347) 326-9459.
As a matter of fact, it looks like I’ll be working […]
The Illinois Green Party is holding it’s convention in Peoria this weekend. I would have loved to go down and mingle with this well-meaning left-wingers, but I have to work today. Too bad the Libertarian Party in Illinois has essentially collapsed. Anyway, they picked their senate candidate today. Good luck trying to keep her and […]
A couple weeks ago, Bartonville police announced they were going to be “proactive” in the fight against drugs. They were going to set up roadblocks, pull over cars and have one of those highly-trained drug-sniffing dogs do it’s thing.
Although I consider the act of pulling over cars just to see if there’s a possibility […]
I received the following from a someone who’s in touch with Peoria County politics. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy:
On Tuesday, March 26, [Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin] Lyons showed up in traffic court at the Peoria County Courthouse and tried a DUI jury trial. Needless to say this was […]
Blogging will be light today, so here’s a few links from the Journal Star. The snarky commentary is my own.
Twice within a matter of a few days, the Peoria County State’s Attorney’s office failed to indict someone. Judging from the facts of the case, it’s probably just as well.
Allow me to go on record now […]
CUTLINE: President Bush hugs a person dressed as the Easter bunny at the start of the annual Easter Egg Roll, Monday, March 24, 2008, overlooking the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
You mean there’s no such thing as the Easter Bunny? Damn you , Reuters! Damn you for spoiling my childhood. I am […]
I’m asking Gary because he was the Peoria City Council member who moved to increase the city’s tax on hotel room rentals from the 1.5 percent called for in the Hotel, Restaurant and Amusement tax by another half percentage point to 2 percent.*
What essential city services– such as police and fire protection or infrastructure — […]
Sometime Tuesday, Site Meter recorded the 1,000,000th unique daily visitor to PeoriaPundit.com.
I have no idea who it what or what brought them here. Was it a regular visitor who wanted get his or her daily fix? Was it someone lured here by promises of pics of Paige Davis stripping?
And I have to concede that the […]
