Many moons ago, I was editor of the weekly Peoria Times-Observer, and one of my duties was to upload each week’s articles to the newspaper’s online version.
For a variety of reasons, the company stopped posting articles and switched to a static site with contact information. Those reasons included:

Under-powered, clunky computers that made the task tiresome [...]

Belated kudos to one of my favorite couples, who were among those honored at last week’s neighborhood awards banquet:
The awards given out that night recognized individual members of the community who gave unselfishly. The prestigious Mayor’s Award went to Mitch and Nancy Mitchell of East Bluff United Neighborhood Association. The award is for those [...]

I didn’t know the Peoria Times-Observer’s DeWayne Bartels was such a fan boy:

“Closed sessions” are a fact of life for journalists who cover public meetings. And, it is in these meetings where the dirty laundry gets aired. Illinois has a strong open meetings law. But, it requires state’s attorney’s to enforce and that is almost never done. But public bodies are required to keep minutes of meetings, [...]

Yes, the story is true. If you have gone to the Peoria Times-Observer Web site recently, you have noticed that it has no new content. We decided that the cost and effort to maintain the site is not justified by the number of visitors. We will update it soon to make it more static. It [...]

Let me explain: I write a column for the Peoria Times-Observer. The PTO covers the part of Peoria that is north of War Memorial Drive. It also covers Peoria Heights and Dunlap. Generally, I don’t write a column unless it would be of interest to these readers. I also avoid using the column for personal [...]

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I suppose. Months after Tom Batters wrote about Jazz music in the Peoria area, the Peoria Journal-Star wote about it in this week’s Cue section. But, they followed our lead the week before, when we broke the “strippergate” story. Sometimes they don’t bother to follow up on stories [...]