It took a more than a couple days, but the anonymous gnomes who pen official opinions on the Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page have finally editorialized about the stunning drop in violent crime from te same time last years.
As readers may recall, recently I chastised the Journal Star for failing to quote Peoria Mayor [...]

Today’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page opines on teenagers who help pick up litter. They are in favor.
Still no comment on the drop in the the murder rate.

My, how time flies.
About this time last year, Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis had the audacity to stand up for Peoria and complain about how Peoria’s one and only daily newspaper was portraying his city. He complained that the newspaper over-emphasized bad news the city, including an unusually high murder murder rate.
The response from the editorial [...]

I’m chuckling over today’s Word on the Street column. Karen McDonald takes a look at Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis’ endorsement for Jim McConoughey for Congress. The column leads with the ironic details (reported here earlier) that Ardis just happened to serve with former City Council member John Morris for eight years, and that Ardis’ own [...]

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Peoria Firefighters Local 50 leader Tony Ardis, the brother of Mayor Jim Ardis, was arrested Sunday on aggravated battery charges. On Sunday. This is Thursday. The Journal Star says other details were not available. This info was first posted at at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. It’s hard to get [...]