But I am far, far to politically correct to suggest that a black guy who did this wouldn’t be sitting in the Tazewell County Jail right now. Just sayin’.
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Let’s not kid ourselves, we are ALL thinking the same thing about that retired white cop who pulled a gun during a Pekin traffic stop and somehow didn’t get his sorry ass shot
Pekin is on the right track
In Peoria, they shut down railroads so that connected developers can build next to bike trails. In Pekin, they use it to attract manufacturing jobs:
The Pekin City Council will conduct a special meeting Monday to authorize the sale of property in the Riverway Business Park to Wheelworx North, among three other agenda items.
“It’s a...
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Halloween Party benefits Tazewell animal shelter
From a press release:
Subject: TAPS Halloween party
Halloween party for pets at TAPS Shelter 100 TAPS Lane, Pekin, IL 61554
Saturday, October 24, noon-3 pm
Is your dog or cat a party animal? Are you and your pet ready for a howling good time? Do you have the “pawfect” costume for your pet? Pooches…, cats, and their...
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Miss Pot, meet Mr. Kettle
DeWayne Bartels writes that he took an odd call from the other day:
She wanted me to get the word out that people from all over the Greater Peoria Area – Bartonville, Pekin, Morton, Washington, Dunlap, East Peoria — need to be at Monday’s District 150 School Board meeting. Residents from all these communities need...
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Pekin’s been writing a ton of speeding tickets
I predicted that Ed Emmons was the new Pekin Pundit, and it looks like I was right with this post:
According to information obtained in City Council packets, through the first six months of this year Pekin has issued 2, 838 speeding tickets compared to 1, 909 through the same period last year. That is...
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A new ‘Pekin Pundit?’
Ed’s Two Cents is all about public policy in Pekin, especially the city’s impound and towing ordinance.
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Blogging: New Peoria Blogger, return of a Pekin blogger
The site is called Peoria Fashionista.
This is how she describes herself:
I’m married, no children, live in Peoria, have a great job, a wonderful husband and fabulous friends who love food, drink, fashion, commenting about others and living life – just like me!
I have lived in multiple states and traveled to foreign countries. I...
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Local: Some Bacon for breakfast in Pekin
Kinight in Dragonland has been a bit lazy of late and not living up to his rep as the unofficial “Pekin Pundit.” He broke out of his funk with a good post giving hell to a certain member of the District 108 School Board. No, not Jim Mangan (who actually served on a different...
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Pekin resident dies in Iraq
He wasn’t wearing a uniform, but try telling me this man wasn’t one of the good guys:
A North Carolina man who graduated from Pekin High School in 1984 was killed in Iraq last week by a roadside bomb of the kind he was employed to remove, a family member said Saturday.
Richard Todd Rhodes, 40,...
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Don’t blame open government laws for lack of communication
The new mayor of Pekin is blaming the state’s Open Meetings Act because he can’t meet with members of his city council to discuss business.
State law says that anytime a majority of a quorum of a public body get together to discuss business, that’s a meeting, and it has to be announced in advance...
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JS plays catch-up on water buy-out pact
Yesterday, the Journal Star reported on agreement between Peoria, Pekin, Champaign and Urbana to team-up to buy the Illinois American Water Company. I’ve read the same story before, last week.
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Peoria teams with other cities to buy water works
Peoria is teaming up with Champaign, Urbana and Pekin to look into buying their water systems from the Illinois American Water Company:
Urbana Chief Administrative Officer Bruce Walden disclosed the effort at Monday night’s meeting of the Urbana City Council, saying the city managers and attorneys in the four communities have been talking on a...
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Once again, Pekin’s disgraced ex-mayor changes his tune
I’ve been lecturing my commenters on the need for brevity. It doesn’t seem to be working. So, I will instead link to PeoriaIlinoisan’s brief summary of the Lyn Howard saga:
Let’s recap. First he didn’t think he did anything wrong. He didn’t realize it was wrong. Didn’t realize it was a city card. Confused. Not...
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Crooked mayor? Don’t remind us
A state legislator wanted to hold a press conference to announce his proposal to make it harder for convicted politicians to get probation.
The people who operate the proposed site of this announcement — Pekin City Hall — said ”
no thanks.”
“All it does is open an old wound and rub salt in it and we...
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Holy Moses
I agree. This is a funny post.
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Via Slashfilm:
Now there’s a slight update: according to IESB, the shortlist is now only three names: Chris Evans (Sunshine, The Fantastic Four); Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, Stop-Loss) and Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl). I’ve stumped for Evans before, but am a bit surprised that he’s still on the list, because of that Fantastic Four association. But that’s no big deal in the long run, as the Marvel Studios film universe has nothing to do with the Fox version of Marvel’s characters. (Confusing!) Evans is easily the best choice here.
Feh. We need a traditional square-jawed hero for this role, not some pretty boy. Evans is an X-games sorta guy. Cap is a baseball/football/track letterman kinda guy. And the FF movies sucked and that kinda stink don’t wash off.
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Let’s not kid ourselves, we are ALL thinking the same thing about that retired white cop who pulled a gun during a Pekin traffic stop and somehow didn’t get his sorry ass shot March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
But I am far, far to politically correct to suggest that a black guy who did this wouldn’t be sitting in the Tazewell County Jail right now. Just sayin’.
Here are some possibly related postsDecember 23, 2009 — Five Peoria police layoffs averted (0)November 29, 2009 — Pekin is on the right track (2)October 22, 2009 [...]Original post by Billy Dennis
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if you guys think this is amazing, wait till the Avengers movie comes out. dakkota92 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:03 pm. he wanted more money they said no soo he quit. SilentWorld13 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:08 pm …
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Of course this would mean that he could be a villain in Iron Man 3 or even the Avengers movie. Now what if each major villain of the Marvel heroes banded together? Mandarin for Iron Man, Red Skull for Captain America, Loki for Thor, …
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