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Today’s Word on the Street is especially newsy today. Dave Koehler comments on his civil union legislation. It looks like Elliot’s is gonna get some kind of liquor license today. Peoria County officials defend their silly little push poll that faked public support for raising taxes for the regional museum [...]

I am frightened.
I’ve been reading today’s editorial on TIFs and enterprise zones, and I can’t find anything to really snicker at, especially since they came clean on having benefited from one, thus giving critics one less thing to sneer at.
Oh, I would have said ‘no’ to the $6 million Firefly Energy loan guarantee simply on [...]

Double A Pizza says it cannot afford to stay in Peoria area any longer. So the sports bar wants to pick up shop and move to an area outside of the city limits of Peoria. And it wants the taxpayers to help by giving the developer building their new digs an 8 percent tax break [...]

A huge retail corporation is wants to lower the taxes it pays on one of its properties.
I am reminded of a family vacation to see Yellowstone Park, where the signs advised visitors to not feed the bears. The rangers didn’t want the animals associating humans with free food, lest the animals become accustomed to it [...]

Kudos to Gary Sandberg and Clyde Gulley for voting against extending the city’s enterprise zone to far north Peoria. Essentially, the city voted to create a three-foot-wide corridor down the center of Willow Knolls Road, down U.S. Route 150 to Illinois Route 91 to OSF St. Francis Property, where a new “regional Illinois eye center” [...]