From a press release:
Maplewood, North of Main Street, will be closed for two weeks starting Monday, May 19th to allow for construction activities.

Kudos to Bradley President Joanne Glasser, who took a firm stand for a safe campus:
Three former Bradley University students convicted of manslaughter for a fatal college prank learned recently they would not be allowed to return to the college, a family member said.
The parents are livid, because they say they were promised their offspring would [...]

As I get ready for tomorrow’s Peoria Pundit Radio Show (6 p.m., listen here, call in at (347) 326-9459), I thought’s I’d toss together six links to keep readers occupied. I’m planning to talk about litter, but ANY subject is likely to come up:

Remember Sally Kern, that Oklahoma state legislator who said homosexuals are worse [...]

Here’s some links to keep readers amused as I look for a guest for Sunday’s radio show about litter:
From Chef Kevin’s site, this email he received about the downtown museum:
 ”…seems to me if they can’t do the marketing and promotions to raise enough money to BUILD the museum, why should anyone expect they’d be able [...]

Unless noted, all links are from the Peoria Journal Star:

I attended Woodruff High School, and walked up and down Abington Street hill more times than I care to remember. And being a stupid teenager, we goofed around. It was quite common to playfully “shove” a friend off the sidewalk and onto the street as a [...]

Jonathan Ahl reports on the passing of Dave Schenk, director of Infrastructure and Engineering Services at Bradley University, which made him chief engineer at WCBU and WTVP. My condolences to his friends, family and co-workers.

Danny Ruffin, whose use of force to remove a combative former girlfriend – with whom he was growing bored – from his campus apartment left the woman bleeding and needing treatment at a local hospital, has been reinstated to the Bradley University basketball team for the remainder of the season.
 

The Journal Star’s latest story has even more details. The victim sorta recanted the first statement she made to police, saying she can’t be sure how her injuries happened. And she expressed concerns about his being treated unfairly because he’s a basketball player.
If Danny Ruffin and the other witness are to be believed, his one [...]

Bradley University just doesn’t get it. If you want to be a top basketball school that perennially sends teams into the NCAA tournament, you have GOT to overlook the little things, such as when your star player gets his sorry ass arrested for domestic battery. In fact, you’ve got to have a local police department [...]

Phil Luciano has jumped on the Bradley University Soccer bandwagon. He admits it. He doesn’t care. He finds the whole three-victories-away-from-a-national-championship thing absolutely riveting:

Saturday night at home, with the team playing in Maryland, I kept dashing to my computer, desperate for updates. College soccer scores are hard to find, especially mid-game.
And when the [...]

Today’s links via the Peoria Journal Star:

Repairs are done at the McClugage Bridge. If I ever used that bridge, I’d be ecstatic.
Bradley University is investigating what happened at the sorority talent show that led to the dangerous street brawl. No doubt BU is deeply concerned about student safety. Heaven forbid that something would happen to [...]

The headline says Talent show spawns brawl. What happened was that a Bradley University sorority held a talent show, and some “youths” out in the parking lot started fighting and wouldn’t stop, so the police had to use pepperball guns to break them up. So I would say that the brawl wasn’t spawned by the [...]

Peoria Anti-Pundit did some citizen journalism and discovered that Bradley University students are being ticketed — by campus police. This supposedly includes tickets for jaywalking. And they aren’t happy about it. Do BU police officers have the power to ticket BU students for jaywalking across West Main Street and University? If so, good.

OMG! Be still my heart! If Jenny Davis back on the beat? It’s been about a month since Jenny left the City Council beat and Word on the Street to take a job as editor of one of those silly sections the JS prints that I never read. She did it because let her give [...]

Citizen journalist C.J. Summers went to last night’s forum on the school siting issue, and has a comprehensive report on his site. It is well-written and is far less biased and condescending that the brief Journal Star report. Concerned citizens are going to need more online journalism like this as GateHouse continues to turn what [...]