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The nearly 1.5 million in Peoria-area projects includes $250,000 to help Bradley University renovate Bradley Hall, $250,000 to expand Glen Oak Zoo, $250,000 to Lakeview Museum to help build a downtown museum of Peoria hitory, $500,000 to help rehab roads in Springdale Cemetery and another $200,000 to help the Heartland Clinic bring services [...]

Wisely, a group of Peoria firefighters are getting ready to evacuate themselves should Rita take a turn toward Louisiana. That looks to be what is happening.
Be careful guys. We are proud of you all, but upu need to mind your own safety as well.
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Via Little Green Footballs, I found this link to a National Geographic article that predicted exactly what happened:

I’m glad he said it first.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert said doesn’t make sense, and the New Orleans media is all over the story.
I don’t disagree. I don’t know why my tax dollars should be used to rebuild an area that’s prone to devastation because of geography.
If there’s an economic reason for it to [...]

I should have topped off my gas tank this morning when I could have paid just $2.59 a gallon. I just paid $2.79 at the head shop gas station next door. It’s supposed to go up to $3.50 a gallon soon, and my neighbor heard they are talking about $5 a gallon before the week [...]