Peoria Times Observer editor DeWayne Bartels mentions in his blog that there’s an effort by some admirers to free Hitler wannabe Matt Hale from prison, where he is being held after his conviction for trying to order the murder of a judge.
I’ve tried to find other reporting in this, but can’t. And the group doesn’t [...]

The Peoria Times-Observer last week profiled the two candidates for Peoria County State’s Attorney, incumbent Kevin Lyons and challenger Darin LaHood. Both articles were, I thought, fair. I can’t link to them because the PTO doesn’t post articles on its Website. I’d post them in .pfd format, but I don’t want to go beyond fair [...]

Molly Parker is not only “walking on sunshine” (an inside joke), she’s hitting the road, via Capitol Fax:
Peoria Journal-Star political reporter/columnist Molly Parker is moving on to a new job in Charleston, South Carolina. I’ve known Molly since she was a PAR intern at the Statehouse, and she has become a pal. If you’re near [...]

GateHouse Media has bought out TimesNewspapers, the chain of local weeklies for which I once worked as editor of the Peoria Times-Observer. The other newspapers that have been snatched up include the Chillicothe Times-Bulletin, the Morton Times-News, the East Peoria Times-Courier and the Washington Times-Reporter. These papers had a combined circulation of 31,000 (one can [...]

I didn’t know the Peoria Times-Observer’s DeWayne Bartels was such a fan boy: