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	<title>Peoria Pundit &#187; Gary Sandberg</title>
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		<title>Sandberg gets it: Debt, not economy, is cause of city&#8217;s problems</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/12/09/sandberg-gets-it-debt-not-economy-is-cause-of-citys-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Ardis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Peoria City Council today approved a $165.8 million budget that eliminated 69 jobs, a log of them from the police department:
At-large Councilman Gary Sandberg criticized council members and city officials who have pointed to the slumping of revenue sources during the recession as the main culprit for the deficit problems. He said the city&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PJS just can&#8217;t stop carrying water for politicians</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/11/30/pjs-just-cant-stop-carrying-water-for-politicians/</link>
		<comments>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/11/30/pjs-just-cant-stop-carrying-water-for-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sandberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peoria City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, the Peoria City Council spent $16,000 to print a glossy and mail a glossy magazine full of old information that&#8217;s readily available elsewhere.
But there&#8217;s nothing to worry about, says the Journal Star&#8217;s Word on the Street column.
After all, the money was budgeted last year.
And they aren&#8217;t doing it again this year.
And some people actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q &amp; A with Gary</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/11/17/q-a-with-gary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I get interesting email.
Peoria City Manager Scott Moore sent the following email to members of the Peoria City Council:
Mayor &#038; Council:
Good evening.  I wanted to follow up with you to see if you had any legislative items that needed to be added to the proposed list that is being developed.  Council member Spain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New city manager introduced to staff and the media</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/08/14/new-city-manager-introduced-to-staff-and-the-media/</link>
		<comments>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/08/14/new-city-manager-introduced-to-staff-and-the-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Moore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the rest of the news media turns off their microphones, cameras and voice recorders, I walked up to new Peoria City Manager Scott Moore and asked him a question:
&#8216;Certainly you&#8217;ve seen news reports about the state of Illinois political leaders. Did it give you pause about coming here to Illinois?&#8217;
He just broke out into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger bust? Not really &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/06/30/blogger-bust-not-really/</link>
		<comments>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/06/30/blogger-bust-not-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogger Bash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peoriadotcom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A grand total of eight people showed up for Blogger Bash. And they weren&#8217;t all there at the same time. The event lasted from 6 p.m. until I left at 10:30 p.m.
Why was attendance so light? I dunno. Competing events that tend to attract bloggers. A lack of marketing by ME this time around. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A double first in the Peoria Journal Star</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/06/19/a-double-first-in-the-peoria-journal-star/</link>
		<comments>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2009/06/19/a-double-first-in-the-peoria-journal-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journal Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merle Widmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Bibo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out today&#8217;s column by Terry Bibo. There are two firsts.
1. Gary Sandberg and Merle Widmer are on the same side. They&#8217;ve been sniping at each over recently, mainly because they differed on the library vote.
2. Not only DOESN&#8217;T the column take potshots at either of them, the column is actually pretty much on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local: A few taxing questions for Gary Sandberg</title>
		<link>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2008/03/26/local-a-few-taxing-questions-for-gary-sandberg/</link>
		<comments>http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2008/03/26/local-a-few-taxing-questions-for-gary-sandberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hra taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m asking Gary because he was the Peoria City Council member who moved to increase the city&#8217;s tax on hotel room rentals from the 1.5 percent called for in the Hotel, Restaurant and Amusement tax by another half percentage point to 2 percent.*

What essential city services&#8211; such as police and fire protection or infrastructure &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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