I’ve heard from two different sources that there is a second reverse discrimination suit in the works. Bear in mind that with teachers so unhappy with administrators and the board over the threat of an imposed contract, that there are a TON of rumors going around.
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Recent Blog Peoria PostsThe Cosmos strives for equilibrium today. The hours of daylight and dark are equal. Spring returns–even if the day is dark and cold, rainy, snowy, spitting sleet. It’s the thought that counts.
Modern Wiccans call the day Ostara. I am not found of the name. Like Easter itself, the name is taken from a Teutonic lunar Goddess Eostre. Mike Nichols, author of The Witches’ Sabbats, from the website of the same name, “Her holiday, the Eostara, was held on the vernal equinox full moon.” Technically that will fall on the 29th of March. According to Nichols, the Roman Catholic Church divided the vernal holiday into Easter–the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox–and Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on March 25th. This, of course, the day that the Angel Gabriel announces that Mary is “with child.” “Lady Day” was the name used by our first Wiccan founders.
I think I prefer the simpler “Spring Turning.” It was the phrase I used in my own fiction back before I was “officially” Pagan. It signifies a becoming. As Nichols says, it’s a springboard to Beltane, May 1st. Processes begun at the equinox find fulfillment at Beltane.
I hadn’t planned to celebrate the day, but a friend called late in the morning and said, “Let’s go to Bloomington to the Mennonite Relief Sale.” The day was dreary; and I knew that by the time we got there, most everything would sold, but I hadn’t been to the Relief Sale since it left Peoria. I was pleasantly surprised to get a bunch of pussy willows. I can’t remember the last time I had pussy willows.
And on the way back, I asked to stop in a Kelly Seed to look over their new shipment of heirloom seeds. I haven’t decided yet if I am going to plant a garden this year or slit my wrists, but Global Village in the Heights is collecting supplies for Haiti this month, and one of the things on the list is garden seeds. So I bought heritage melons, squash, radishes, and corn. And a packet of mixed lettuce if I decide to plant for myself. Spring is such a fickle time of the year…
I think the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway’s 172-page Industrial Development Brochure is incredible for its detail, and it shouldn’t leave prospective buyers of listed properties and buildings with too many questions. But if they do have any, they can always contact the railroad.
Closer to home, RailAmerica’s Toledo Peoria & Western Railway lists these properties. I’m curious, though, why two of them, here and here, which are nowhere near TP&W track, are listed (furthermore, they could find out that “Middle Road” is not spelled “Middel.”).
Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., owner of two local shortlines – Illinois & Midland Railroad and Tazewell & Peoria Railroad – provide few details on their website, but it does say this:
I&M’s extra-wide 200-foot right-of-way, and adjacent industrial sites on both I&M and T&P, offer excellent location opportunities for manufacturing, distribution and transload facilities.
Before the Internet Age, railroads published and circulated booklets detailing industrial development sites in various communities they served. One example was the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s 1964 booklet. One page of the Peoria section, which appeared in the railroad’s 1963 Annual Report, can be viewed by clicking the thumbnail below.
The Rock Island’s promotion of both the Galena Road Industrial Park and Pioneer Industrial Park caught the attention of the Peoria Journal Star, which mentioned it in a June 16, 1964 editorial.
Past and present, American railroads know that to remain viable long term they must continuously promote their services to prospective industrial and logistics firms. And the only change is the type of media.
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Today’s strip: Chris Muir is hearing my pleas. Sam is again in the low-cut, skin-tight little black dress. Chris treats up to a front view and a maddeningly curvaceous profile.
Today’s strip: Now this is more like it. Sam is in a skin-tight, low-cut little black dress. There’s a front view and a side view. You go, Chris!
Via Slashfilm:
Now there’s a slight update: according to IESB, the shortlist is now only three names: Chris Evans (Sunshine, The Fantastic Four); Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, Stop-Loss) and Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl). I’ve stumped for Evans before, but am a bit surprised that he’s still on the list, because of that Fantastic Four association. But that’s no big deal in the long run, as the Marvel Studios film universe has nothing to do with the Fox version of Marvel’s characters. (Confusing!) Evans is easily the best choice here.
Feh. We need a traditional square-jawed hero for this role, not some pretty boy. Evans is an X-games sorta guy. Cap is a baseball/football/track letterman kinda guy. And the FF movies sucked and that kinda stink don’t wash off.
But I am far, far to politically correct to suggest that a black guy who did this wouldn’t be sitting in the Tazewell County Jail right now. Just sayin’.
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if you guys think this is amazing, wait till the Avengers movie comes out. dakkota92 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:03 pm. he wanted more money they said no soo he quit. SilentWorld13 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:08 pm …
Of course this would mean that he could be a villain in Iron Man 3 or even the Avengers movie. Now what if each major villain of the Marvel heroes banded together? Mandarin for Iron Man, Red Skull for Captain America, Loki for Thor, …
As for Chris Evans, he was the best part of the Fantastic Four, so why not keep him for a spot in the Avengers movie instead? Sebastian Stan / Wilson Bethel Sebastian Stan and Wilson Bethel are unknowns to me. I don't watch Gossip Girl …
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Very unfair of you to imply that a second lawsuit (if it in fact exists) is sour grapes over stalled contract negotiations. Hasn’t the District leadership demonstrated over and over that they are more than capable of hostile and innappropriate behavior towards staff? Your feigned surprise is very transparent.
Just because the administration of District 150 is flawed, that doesn’t translate into District 150 is always in the wrong. There is a LOT of blame to go around. Teachers share some of that blame. Sorry.
Maybe it is just me but I didn’t read into it what Peoria Parent did. I read it as the legitimacy of this rumor is in question as there are many frustrated over contract negotiations. Not that this rumored lawsuit is a retaliation for the contract negotiations.
this lawsuit has been in the works far longer than negotiations have been going south.
I spoke with some teachers at a holiday party. They will strike. They have a long list of mistakes that the D150 administration has made, including money wasted on lots of things that never get publicity. This hard line stance against the teachers, who actually deliver the education, is just the latest. Now it’s provoking a strike. Very sad.
If a strike occurs, it isn’t about the money/pay. Purportedly both sides are in agreement where salaries and pay freezes are concerned.
Mike Tucker
writes since they are firing the police, why doesn’t the police attack the teachers when go out on strike, stick to them with all their might.
when on strike, say something like so out here getting to rob cars to teachers.
why not the city council has put district 150 ahead of police, and build the block has renamed to fire the police and get a musuem
mike tucker
Nick weedi
writes you know me law breaker, neighborhood stalker, insider trader of caterpillar stock.
Jane and I think district is run terrible, but if they have fire police all better that can’t come around and bug me for running a commerical business in neighborhood, bringing down all the property values
you can give a traffic ticket for that
Those 2 comments above are incoherent!
miketucker and nickweedi: are you smokin crack? what are you talking about?
*sigh*
It’s the same guy. He writes that that on purpose, When I catch him libeling anyone, I delete it. I’ve banned him once, but he’s obviously using a different computer than before.
He does this to increase his “troll footprint.”
We recieved a letter from one of the most well loved and well respected teachers in our child’s school.
She laid out why she will be striking with the other teachers. It was very compelling.
She writes:
“I will be doing this for your children and not for any personal or financial gain. Your children desrve the best education possible. I do not believe that the district should have the ability to move a teacher to any school at any time of the year. This would not provide a loving, stable environment for your child. I do not believe that a child in a class of 30+ students is conducive to learning, especially in the lower grades. The children should not have to pay for the mistakes that the district has made.”
I believe that most parents will tend to side with the teachers when the issues are laid out like that.
The irony behind D150’s thought process on the involuntary transfer is that they truly believe that moving teachers from higher achieving schools to lower achieving schools will raise the scores at those schools. Essentially, they are saying it’s the teacher’s fault at those lower performing schools…….
not in a recession, but when did peoria government ever care what citizens that just forced the stuff through hook or by crook
Consider the illogic.
On one hand, teachers say parents should oppose efforts to let the district assign personal where they are needed because they might “lose” a beloved teacher.
Yet, if the district wants to base pay on MERIT, that can’t happen because teachers shoul;d be evaluated on seniority alone.
Either some teachers are better and more sought after than others, or they are not.
Show of hands: How many readers of this blog — who are NOT public employees — are avaluated on performance by their employers? How many Caterpillar employees cannot be transferred to other worksites?
steve j weibring
writes this is big steve ban me with all your power
you low iq works well with your community comments
steve I pleading with ya ban me weibring
OK
peoria desparate to issue moredebt
writes in the final analysis, district 150 will issue more municipal bonds in the race to bankrupt peoria they say a bunch of bull to make sound right then go home to german town hills
Now THAT I understand.