Finalize that TellPeoria pitch for new publishers.
Work on those Freedom of Information Act Requests I’ve been threatening to do for weeks.
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Billy Dennis is lifelong Peorian, having attended Kingman, Glen Oak, Woodruff High School and Illinois Central College before finally tricking Eastern Illinois University into granting him a bachelor's degree in journalism. He's reported on police, fires, labor, local government and schools all across Illinois and Missouri. A former liberal Democrat, life experience turned him into a small-l libertarian.
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 The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown, Peoria IL. Call me at (309) 863-5748 and leave a message. Or email me.
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Date: August 31, 2010 Released by: Alma Brown, Communications Manager Subject: RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION SCHEDULE FOR THE CITY OF PEORIA DUE TO THE LABOR DAY HOLIDAY Due to the upcoming holiday, all residential collections during the week of September 6, 2010, will be delayed by one day. If your normal garbage and yard waste collection day […]
Local Telecasts add, change Broadcast times Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity (PCCEO) announces changes to the broadcast times of its two television shows it airs on Comcast Cable Channel 22 effective September 3rd. CAPtions, airing since 1975, will continue to air on Sundays at 5 pm and Wednesday at 7 pm on Comcast Cable […]
Bradley Hall of Famer’s Honors subject of Local Broadcast Mitchell “JJ” Anderson, outstanding Bradley Braves basketball all-star from 1978-1982, was honored recently by having the new Bradley Athletic Facility Men’s practice court named after him. Highlights of the dedication ceremony revealing this honor will be aired on CAPtions next week. Speakers include […]
From the recent “Issues Update”: The Building Division of the Inspections Department continues to see strong growth in new construction projects in the City of Peoria. With four months remaining in 2010, permit revenue has already surpassed the total amount collected in 2009. Illustrated in the table below is a comparison of Building Permits/Permit Revenue t […]
Last week’s “Issues Update” from the City Manager’s office has the latest on how things are progressing with the Firefly bankruptcy: The Bankruptcy Court has set a hearing on the City’s and County’s settlement with the Bankruptcy Trustee for September 9, 2010. Negotiations continue with Electrotherm, the company from India who has expressed interest in acqui […]
Actually, WCBU has had a new website for a little while now, but I’m just getting around to blogging about it. WCBU is, of course, the public radio station in Peoria (89.9 FM) with studios at Bradley University. If you haven’t checked it out their new site, take a look: http://www.wcbufm.org/. The local news is […]
Think of the extravagance of this spending. Then consider the PRM and Peoria County has already spent 56 times that amount of money on the Peoria Riverfront Museum and not one spade of earth has been turned.The letter below is fake. The figures are not.MerleFor only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country. I want to thank the hard wo […]
Note the next to the last sentence about $8 million in private funds to cover the gap. Even with more taxpayer dollars the gap was not covered. A meeting was held today (or yesterday between Dave Ransburg and Mike McCord and others to see how they were going to raise more funds, both private and taxpayer dollars. Interesting.Three weeks after Mr. Beasley fro […]
So says Gary Panetta, JS columnist. Go to Gary's site and see what he wrote and what Karrie Alms and I answered for the "truth" nit-picking of this museum fiasco. Some writers on the JS have sometimes not been bothered to look up facts or let facts get in there way when trying to "make the news" rather than report it.You should know […]
Snowed in!!
Roads are down to wet pavement !!
Not my street.