Caterpillar Inc. is fixing up its parking deck. Good for them. For them. It’s their deck, they are responsible for it. In a totally pure free-market, free-enterprise system they ought to be responsible for those costs. One of those costs, one assumes, would be to find a place for its workers to park.
After all, there [...]

Vacation is over.
After a three-week break, the Peoria City Council will meet at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. And judging from the agenda (viewable here), it looks to be a long meeting. Bring a pillow, as I would not be surprised if this thing doesn’t end until after 10 p.m..
There are seven proclamations scheduled. There are 31 [...]

Via C.J.’s site, I discovered the Campaign for a Walkable West Bluff. They will be meeting tonight at  6:30 p.m. in Bradley Hall, Room 142. I don’t think I’ll walk, but I will drive over. Beats going to some lame Peoria City Council meeting.
Basically, what they want to do is actively campaign for the city [...]

I’m closing comments on this post because I don’t want to steal any thunder from C.J, Summers’ excellent article, complete with Beth Akeson’s photo evidence, on why Peorians are forced to place their trash on the sidewalks in front of their homes.
I’m sure I’ve posted on it before. I grew up on Frye Avenue [...]

I’ll go over the agenda for the next Peoria City Council meeting later, but for now, here’s the agenda:

The Peoria Journal Star editorial board — an entity that has consistently argued in favor of closing inner city fire stations while promoting increased spending on “quality of life” projects that have little to do with essential city services — today used City Councilman Eric Turner’s warnings of red ink to argue, again, for keeping [...]

I didn’t attend tonight’s Peoria City Council meeting. I did listen to WCBU (while watching the action on Public Access channel 22).
There some chatter at the end about Councilman Eric Turner’s call for a hiring freeze. He now says it wasn’t directed at firemen or police officers. But I note that he never said they [...]

I hope everyone enjoyed the Peoria City Council meeting today. It was both short, AND boring.  Here are the bullet items:

The council punted on what was to be the big story, a new attempt to pass an ordinance mirroring the state law banning smoking inside commercial establishments. The goal is supposedly to “capture” 100 percent [...]

UPDATE: After 10 minutes of a message telling me that”no web audio servers are available,”  I gave up. I wish BlogTalkRadio the best. I didn’t even know if I was on the air or not. Apparently, they will need it.

NOTE: I’m going on the air in 40 minutes.
I’ve been a little under the weather, so [...]

Tuesday’s Peoria City Council meeting will either be very long, or very short. The agenda (printed below the jump) is very long. But there are 30 items on the consent agenda, which can be approved with one vote (although typically five or six items are taken out for discussion). There are no special presentations. There [...]

A source says that Peoria School Board member Jim Stowell did send emails to Catholic members of the Peoria City Council apologizing for any hurt feelings resulting from using the words “Catholic contingent” in a comment made on the Peoria Journal Star Website.

Background: Someone who used an email address known to belong to the family Peoria School Board member Jim Stowell commented on an actions of the Peoria City Council, and mentions a “Catholic contingent that is running everyone else out of town.” This happened in the comment section of an article posted on the Peoria Journal [...]

I hate to side with anonymous critics who refuse to put their name on comments, but I have to agree that perhaps Henry Holling isn’t the person who should be named interim Peoria City Manager.
This is what we know from today’s PJS article:
He’s going to be sentenced Friday for driving under the influence and for [...]

I received the following email today :
We need your help to make Peoria a better place to live, work, and play.  The City is currently updating our Comprehensive Plan, the “Master Plan” for the development of Peoria over the next fifteen to twenty years.  Public input is necessary to make this planning process a success.
Below is a [...]

According to Jonathan Ahl, retired Caterpillar executive and long-ago former Peoria City Manager administrative assistant Henry Holling is the city council’s choice for interim city manager. The background on Holling, via the post:
Holling retired last year after 35 years at Caterpillar, ending his time there as the Manager of Corporate and Community Support. Holling worked [...]