It took a more than a couple days, but the anonymous gnomes who pen official opinions on the Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page have finally editorialized about the stunning drop in violent crime from te same time last years.
As readers may recall, recently I chastised the Journal Star for failing to quote Peoria Mayor [...]

The Peoria Journal Star couldn’t find a way to mention Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis’ name even once when it devoted four stories Sunday to how the murder rate has dropped (details avaialable here).
But when they ran a story today casting doubt on the success of a committee that’s just getting off the ground, this is the [...]

Today’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page opines on teenagers who help pick up litter. They are in favor.
Still no comment on the drop in the the murder rate.

Today’s Word on the Street mentions that parents who are upset at D150’s decision to cut a month’s work of instructional time out of their primary schools are taking their concerns to members of the Peoria City Council. I’ll paraphrase the positions taken by two of the council members quoted in the article. Mayor Ardis: [...]

My, how time flies.
About this time last year, Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis had the audacity to stand up for Peoria and complain about how Peoria’s one and only daily newspaper was portraying his city. He complained that the newspaper over-emphasized bad news the city, including an unusually high murder murder rate.
The response from the editorial [...]

I’m chuckling over today’s Word on the Street column. Karen McDonald takes a look at Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis’ endorsement for Jim McConoughey for Congress. The column leads with the ironic details (reported here earlier) that Ardis just happened to serve with former City Council member John Morris for eight years, and that Ardis’ own [...]

Yeah, that was me calling in to the Markley and Luciano Show on WMBD 1470 suggesting “March of the Elephants” as their “theme song” for Ray LaHood.
I intended to remain anonymous, although I did manage to get in a dig at Marley and Luciano for the softball questions they are tossing at Lahood, Mayor Jim [...]

Peoria won’t be sending police officers to help with disaster relief, the Journal Star reported today: