That’s Merle Widmer’s prediction for the year 2010. The current budget is for $50 million, but he says it’s going to continue to grow. The villains of the piece are bonds already purchased to start the Glen Oak Zoo expansion, as well as the temporary relocation of park district headquarters to a site on...
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Local: $60 million budget for Peoria Park District?
Matheson’s missing comment
What happened?
I went to visit Journal Star reporter Clare Jellick’s excellent School Crossing blog and saw this post:
Sean Matheson weighs in
Check out School Board member Sean Matheson’s defense of the proposed park site. Click on “comments†underneath my “It’s no walk in the park†blog entry. Props to him and community members for putting...
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Dead on arrival
School Superintendent Ken Hinton knew when he handed his counter proposal for a new Glen Oak School to Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis, that it would be dead on arrival. The district is insisting pm building a huge suburban-style megaplex campus on the park. The option to build at the present site with acres in...
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Don’t look at me …
I’ve invested all my cash in Beanie Babies. And even if I had $1 million to donate anonymously, I wouldn’t pick Glen Oak Zoo expansion.
Glen Oak Zoo,Glen Oak Park
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Another voice against losing Glen Oak School
The lovely and talented Stephanie Aaron sent me the following email:
Hi,
I am a lifelong Peoria resident who recently (2 1/2 years ago) moved to Chicago. My parents live across the street from Glen Oak School, which of course was my school. I feel a great stake in this ridiculous plan of moving...
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- Transportation Secretary speaks out on . . . health care reform? March 15, 2010Talk about your full-court press from the Obama administration. Even Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is advocating for the administration’s health care bill now: Yesterday, I voiced my support for health care reform with an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. I am grateful to those who saw my speaking-out for what it was: a former [...] […]
- Note to D150 employees: Illinois offers whistleblower protection March 14, 2010Another potential scandal at District 150 was revealed last week by the WEEK-TV news team: Sources tell us district 150 security this week was notified of employees possibly selling District 150 computers illegally over the Internet. Those sources say there was a raid at the district’s Ricketts Center and several shredders and computer hard drives were con […]
- More historic quotes about Firefly March 13, 2010“In terms of company stability, Caterpillar owns 35 percent of Firefly, and Cat is a company that does its homework. This battery technology is unique and promising enough that Firefly had little trouble raising $20 million in private equity. Company officials figure 80 percent of that money is spent locally, so there’s economic spin-off.” –Journal [ […]
Merle Widmer’s Peoria Watch
- 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 […]
- Why Peoria County Makes Gap Loans March 14, 2010It appears the City/County of Peoria had put in place, through an Inter-Governmental Relations Committee a long time ago, a City/County Loan Program with the aim of helping businesses in need of financial assistance to expand or begin operations.An early loan of $100,000 to United Scanning Technologies went bad in 1986. In time, this Loan Program was replace […]
The Community Word
- Women’s History Month
- Long fight for U.S. Senate seat begins
- The gift of life
- Progress Report of Downtown Library’s Renovation
- Remembering — Straight Talk March 2010
- District 150 needs business, board to clean house
- Northern exposure — Dale’s Column March 2010
- I was banned — City Beat March 2010
- Stop Playing Politics With Our Lives!
- Be Still: Doors and Windows column March 2010
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- Weird press release and Quinn might’ve been right after all March 15, 2010
- Modern Tech Policies Create and Save Jobs in Illinois March 15, 2010
- Sen. Duffy caught on red light video, plus other videos, graphs and lots more stuff March 15, 2010
- Question of the day March 15, 2010
- Fixing a hole in the ocean March 15, 2010
CW Notes
- March 27th – One-day Fielding & Baserunning Camp March 15, 2010
- Your 2010 Census Form will arrive SOON! March 15, 2010
- Join County Board Candidate (3rd District) Karrie Alms at St. Patrick’s Day Parade March 15, 2010
- COMMUNITY CALL TO ACTION FORUM March 15, 2010
- MADISON GOLF COURSE OPENING March 16 March 15, 2010
- OSF SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL EXERCISE PROGRAM OFFERS SILVERSNEAKERS® WATER FITNESS CLASS March 15, 2010
- Red Cross promotes sober driving on St. Pat’s Day March 15, 2010
- Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ at the Apollo March 14, 2010
- OSF SAINT FRANCIS HEART HOSPITAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY TEAM EARNS ACCREDITATION March 13, 2010
- ILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER ALERTS CUSTOMERS TO CHECK EMPLOYEE IDENTIFICATION March 13, 2010
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