Local: Knock me over with a feather — PJS opposed to hiring new firefighters
The Peoria Journal Star editorial board — an entity that has consistently argued in favor of closing inner city fire stations while promoting increased spending on “quality of life” projects that have little to do with essential city services — today used City Councilman Eric Turner’s warnings of red ink to argue, again, for keeping Fire Station 11 closed. Of course, they scoffed at the idea of eliminating non-essential quality of life junk from the budget.
The JSEB has been editorially pimping the library expansion for close to a decade, so you know they will screen bloody murder if the council declines to burden taxpayers with that debt curing this recession. Today’s editorial on the surface might seem to be an argument for fiscal responsibility. But it’s really an argument in favor of further decay of the inner city so that the city can afford to pay for amenities for suburbanites.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
