Posts Tagged ‘ DeWayne Bartels ’

Miss Pot, meet Mr. Kettle

September 16, 2009
By Billy Dennis

DeWayne Bartels writes that he took an odd call from the other day: She wanted me to get the word out that people from all over the Greater Peoria Area – Bartonville, Pekin, Morton, Washington, Dunlap, East Peoria — need to be at Monday’s District 150 School Board meeting. Residents from all these communities need...
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Some of my best friends live in the 5th District …

April 8, 2009
By Billy Dennis

… but I wouldn’t want my sister to marry one. And she didn’t. She’s married to a guy who grew up 1 1/2 blocks away from where she and I grew up on the East Bluff. Sensible girl, my sister. What prompted this revelation? Well, in my last post on the Blog Peoria Pundit site, i...
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Local: ‘Movement’ to free Matt Hale?

August 5, 2008
By Billy Dennis

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...
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Politcs: Profiles of LaHood, Lyons reveal differences in style and substance

November 11, 2007
By Billy Dennis

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...
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PJS reporter Molly Parker is hitting the road

June 28, 2007
By Billy Dennis

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...
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GateHouse buys up Peoria-area weeklies, eliminating the competition

June 28, 2007
By Billy Dennis

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...
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