On the very same day that the Journal Star first reported on plans to build a Peoria School District 150’s “community school” on property owned by the Peoria Park District, the paper ran an glowing editorial calling it a fine example of inter-governmental partnership and a win for the community. The very next day,...
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East Bluff trying to muddle through
There’s a lively discussion going on in the East Bluff Peoria Yahoo! Group about the quality of police protection in that venerable residential neighborhood.
My thoughts:
When you see a crime in progress, call the police. Period. If they don’t show up quickly enough, call them again. And again. The squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Don’t make...
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Brian Alexander fundraiser honors murder victim
For those who Brian Alexander is an East Bluff resident who was shot and murdered outside him home on Dec. 19, 2004. The man’s family has been very frustrated at the seeming lack of progress in this case.
Don’t give up! It’s harder to solve murders this long after they happen, but the more awareness...
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Fight gangs in the inner city? Nah … the city’s too busy making people homeless
Were I not a fair-minded person, I would make a snarky comment about the City of Peoria being hot and heavy to close a hotel with a non-existant crime problem while making residents of the East Bluff wait for the city’s help closing a crime infected walkway. After all, I’ve been hearing complaints about...
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Begging for help in the East Bluff
Peoria Peont has a tale that sums up life in the East Bluff quite nicely. I’ve added my comments as well.
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Van Auken has fans
I tried to attend Wednesday’s meeting of the East Bluff United Neighborhood Association, but car problems prevented that from happening. But a blogger who attended that meeting says guest speaker Barbara Van Auken was a hit:
Her presentation was primaily about the cooperation between herself and Bob Manning, the 3rd District councilman. It seems these...
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Muckety-mucks at East Bluff neighborhood meeting
More news from the East Bluff Peoria Yahoo! Group:
Representative Schock, Peoria Police Sgt Mike Eddlemon (Supervisor of the Problem Oriented Policing Teams), and Councilman Bob Manning will discuss state and local issues important to our community.
Date: Thursday, November 10th Time: 7:30 to 9:30 am Location: Prince of Peace Church, 711 E Arcadia Ave
For more...
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It’s always time for ice cream
From the East Bluff Peoria Yahoo! Group:
The Neighborhood Alliance is hosting an ice cream social and has invited landlords to come as well. This is an opportunity for neighborhoods to meet with landlords on an informal basis.
The social is at the Prince of Peace church 711 E. Arcadia (off Wisconsin) on 11/13/05 from...
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Ho Chi Minh trail in Peoria
This is an excerpt of a post made at the East Bluff Peoria Yahoo! group. The public walkway allows walkers to get from Frye to Republic avenue on that loooooong block in Frye that runs from Wisconsin to Peoria Avenue.
Many nearby residents want the walkway closed because of the crime and litter the path...
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New Peoria Website
It’s actually a Yahoo! Group: East Bluff Peoria:
I’m one of six people who join this group after the East Bluff Neighborhood Housing Service sent out a mailing about the Sept. 10 neighborhood trash pick-up. The mainling included the URL for the group and I just had to check it out.
The Web is a wonderful...
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East Bluff cleanup is next weekend
East Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services Fall Clean Up will be held 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 10. Dumpsters will be available at the corner of Wisconsin and Nebraska avenues. Trash and landscape waste will be accepted. No chemicals, paints, appliances or tires.
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Unlucky 13
The two fatal shootings this weekend were 12th and 13th murders in Peoria this year.
They dead guys lived just a few blocks from each other in the 1000 blocks of East Virginia and East Corrington avenues. They lived in my neighborhood.
The East Bluff took it on the chin again yesterday. A woman got...
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Reserving judgment on the Guardian Angels
The Guardian Angels made its first appearance of its latest attempt to start a chapter here in Peoria.
State Rep. Aaron Schock, an East Bluff resident, seems happy to see them come to town. Mayor Jim Ardis seems open to the idea. Myself, I don’t see the big deal.
People already are taking matters into their...
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Making new friends on the East Bluff
I snapped this picture at the “Night Out Against Crime” event sponsored by the East Bluff Serenity and Glen Oak Park neighborhood associations held last night at the Prince of Peace Church, at the corner of East Arcadia and North Indiana.
I don’t know the names of the kids or the barely visible member of...
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I doubt Rand Paul is good for the GOP or the country March 19, 2010Billy Dennis
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That vibration you feel this morning is due to the administrators at Peoria’s big three hospitals quaking in their boots in fear March 19, 2010Billy Dennis
Via Rich Miller:
A new opinion by the Illinois Supreme Court is very bad news for not-for-profit hospitals in Illinois who want to qualify for local tax exemptions.
Yes. It seems that it IS legal for cities to make nominally not-for-profit hospitals pay property taxes. Miller links to lots and lots of articles about it. Apparently, this [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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- Should principals be empowered leaders or branch managers? March 18, 2010The extent to which mechanistic thinking is corrupting our culture might be illustrated in relation to any number of fields of activity. For instance, our educational system suffers disastrously from the dominion of the administrative mind, which is, by the very nature of modern administration, generally mechanistic in its thinking (and therefore unfitted to […]
- Another D150 administrator put on paid leave March 16, 2010District 150 Director of Technology and Library Media Services Mary Ward has been put on paid administrative leave as the district performs an internal investigation. If past is prelude, taxpayers may be paying her to do nothing for a long time. The last administrator to be put on paid administrative leave, Mary Davis, [...] […]
- “Word on the Web” has Urich news conference video March 16, 2010The Journal Star recently started a new blog based on John Sharp and Karen McDonald’s Monday column “Word on the Street.” The blog is called “Word on the Web,” and so far it has been very good. New content is added regularly, and the information is much more timely than the weekly print [...] […]
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- FireFly - What Community Leaders Said March 15, 2010"Calling FireFly 'the poster child' of Peoria NEXT", National City regional president Doug Stewart said that technology was not in short supply in Peoria. "Ideas are not our problem. The issue is management, first, and capital second. If we are going to hit a home run, FireFly is the closest thing we've got."Doug was probab […]
- FireFly Closer to Burning Bright March 15, 2010So wrote Molly Parker, reporter for the JS in May of 2007. The resolution by the County to guarantee, along with the city, a six million dollar loan to FireFly by National City Bank, State Representative Dave Leitch, Vice-President, who personally urged the County Board to approve this loan. Quoting Ms. Parker,"The resolution passed both committees by v […]
- FireFly & G&D Integrated March 14, 2010On 5/28/07, Jennifer Davis and Molly Parker wrote "Finding a FireFly Fix Over Breakfast" in their 'Word on the Street' Column in the JS. Quoting the column, " braving buckets of snow, former Mayor Dick Carver, current Mayor Jim Ardis, state Representative Dave Leitch and a Peoria businessman showed up for breakfast at Le Peep. Over t […]
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