According to the Peoria County Republican Website, Jim Montelongo, an at-large member of the Peoria City Council, has agreed to run for the GOP nomination for the Illinois House of Representatives in the 92nd District.
If successful, he would face incumbent Jehan Gordon.
The brief announcement acknowledges it would be a tough battle, and i agree....
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Council member Montelongo running for Jehan Gordon’s seat
Travis has gone off the deep end
Travis McGlasson has finally gone and done it. He’s started a blog, called Off the Deep End. He’s got a couple posts up. Go over and say “hello.”
It’s a well-designed self-hosted WordPress site.
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Eight police cars with lights on, four w…
Eight police cars with lights on, four without and a fire truck just blasted down NE Adams in Averyville and turned off on a side street near the Hardee’s Restaurant near the intersection with U.S. Router 150.This is from an eyewitness in the area. So something is going on.
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Liveblogging tonight
I’ll be at tonight’s meeting of the Peoria City Council. The meeting starts (allegedly) at 6:15 p.m. Here is the agenda.
I’ll be livingblogging with my little Dell Mini laptop.
And I think I owe C.,J. a pizza afterwards. I hope he isn’t stuck babysitting his kids tonight.
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Media: Jenny Li joins the dark side
WEEK announced at last night’s 10 p.m. newscast that weekend anchor/producer Jenny Li was leaving the station to work in public relations for State Farm Insurance in Bloomington.
What’s good for Jenny — better pay and better hours, no doubt — is bed news for news consumers. I’ll miss seeing her around the press...
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Local: Blogger Bash was off the wall
I’m not even going to try to name all the bloggers and others who attended. Lot of conversation. Lots of hugging. Lots of liquid refreshment. And the Cubs won 7-1 over the Brewers.
We even talked some shop.
Look for photos on some of the blogs. I’ll link to ‘em when the photos get posted.
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Local: Three shootings
Via WMBD:
Three victims went to the hospital after a Sunday morning shooting in Peoria. It happened at the Southern Valley 66 on Western Avenue. Authorities say soon after a victim went to the hospital with a gun shot wound to the stomach, two more people showed up with bullet wounds. Police won’t say if...
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Local: More havok on Peoria’s streets
From a press release:
Beginning Monday, May 5th, Allen Road will be reduced to one lane of traffic in the vicinity of Northmoor Road for approximately two weeks.Â
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Starting with the northbound inside lane the week of May 5th, and the outside southbound lane the week of May 12th, the contractor will be installing the left...
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Local: And thus, the Comcast suckage begins
Internet service went down at Peoria Pundit World Headquarters today. After confirming that this was not the case of an unpaid bill (not THIS time), I contacted Comcast technical support.
Some background: While others may disagree with me, During past several years, I found Insight technical support to be friendly and well-trained. It wasn’t perfect...
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Local: Kellar parents concerned about shortened school day
Parents of children attending Keller Primary School are upset at changes that will give their kids less time in school and fewer teachers to teach music, science and computer skills.
One set of parents spoke to me today and complained at length about many of the issues they and other parents at Kellar have with...
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Local: New airport terminal plans unveiled
The Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria on Wednesday will see renderings of the proposed $60 million terminal planned for 2010, the Journal Star is reporting this evening. The new building will be built just west of the current terminal and preparation work is expected to take place this summer.
The existing terminal opened in May...
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Local? Rebuilding alleys? Hardly
I took the following email from Peoria City Hall:
Today, Public Works crews began grinding alleys. This is done so they can put material into the alley to build them up. The next step will be to seal coat the alleys. The work will not be completed until early Summer.
I would hardly call this “rebuilding...
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Local: The cause of Peoria anti-business climate is …
… Peorians.
We want it both ways.
We scream and yell about how Peoria makes it hard to do business.
But we scream and yell even louder whenever anyone wants to do business in our neighborhood. Heaven forbid, there might be a car parked where I want to park! There might be some urban youth-type person walking...
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Local: So, you want to dis-incentivize gang membership?
Freakonomics has an interesting post in reaction to state of New York passing a law making it illegal to recruit anyone into a gang. Success is 100 percent guaranteed because, as you know, the last thing people who are engaging in an ongoing, multi-generational criminal enterprise want to is break the law. End sarcasm.
From...
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Local: City willing to risk another lawsuit to protect Big Al’s from competition?
How completely bizarre.
For a little less than five years, the official position of the City of Peoria is that Elliott’s cannot and must not have a liquor license. Because a tiny non-stripper corner of the joint was too close to an apartment complex.
This decision allowed the place to operate as a liquor-free strip joint...
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Today’s News: No surprises
Links via the Journal Star:
To the surprise of no one, OSF Health Plans has been old. The new owner will be Humana Inc. This sale was mentioned back when the city was deciding who employees’ health care provider would be. The decision to pick OSF over rival Methodist saved the city millions of dollars....
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PeoriaPunditRadio: On the air! (closed)
(The show is over now. Listen here.)
If you see this post at the top of the blog, then I’m on the air (click to listen), right now. Call (347) 326-9459 to join the conversation. It starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 7:30 p.m. (Central)
Here are some of the topics and some associated links:
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Local: Race relations committee seeks members
From Peoria City Hall:
At the Mayor’s State of the City Address this year, he announced the formation of the Peoria Race Relations Commission to focus on race issues in the community, and positive means to deal with them. Dr. Amir Al-Khafaji, Chair of Civil Engineering and Construction at Bradley University, has agreed to...
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Local: Here’s the straight dope on yard waste collection
From a Peoria City Hall press release:
The 2008 yardwaste collection season begins on Monday, March 17, 2008, and ends Friday, December 19, 2008, for City of Peoria residents served by Waste Management.
Yardwaste may be set out for collection in:
Garbage cans marked “Yardwaste only†which do not exceed 32 gallons in size nor 50 lbs....
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Local: It’s time to clean up Peoria
I was driving through a certain Peoria neighborhood and was disgusted and disappointed at how much trash lined the curbs. Ugh. Then I came home and found this timely email from Peoria City Hall:
Applications are available to neighborhood associations that want trash and landscape dumpsters free of charge for neighborhood clean ups. Neighborhood associations...
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Day by Day: Skin status update 3/20/2010 March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Today’s strip: Chris Muir is hearing my pleas. Sam is again in the low-cut, skin-tight little black dress. Chris treats up to a front view and a maddeningly curvaceous profile.
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Day By Day: Skin status update 3/19/2010 March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Today’s strip: Now this is more like it. Sam is in a skin-tight, low-cut little black dress. There’s a front view and a side view. You go, Chris!
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It’s official: The Captain America movie is going to suck March 20, 2010justiceblogofamerica
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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Iron Man 2 Trailer (OFFICIAL) | Home Video Marketing March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
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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Mail It To Team-Up: Captain America Cartoon and My theory about … March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
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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Captain America News Round Up « Fangirl's Handbag March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
As for Chris Evans, he was the best part of the Fantastic Four, so why not keep him for a spot in the Avengers movie instead? Sebastian Stan / Wilson Bethel Sebastian Stan and Wilson Bethel are unknowns to me. I don't watch Gossip Girl …
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Star Trek vs X-Men Trailer – MoviesOnline March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
Leave it to film fans to do something cool. Below you can checkout a fan trailer for X-Men vs Star Trek. Back in the day MARVEL did a cross over comic…
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Bryan Singer Embraces More 'X-Men'; Regrets 'Superman Returns … March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
And what about that X-Men 4 news? There were hints in recent months that the 'X-Men' movie franchise would be moving ahead and away from prequels — and with Singer involved, no less — but this is a veritable official announcement. …
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[NEWS] «Could 'X-Men 4′ Be in Bryan Singer's Future?» – X-Men … March 20, 2010Billy Dennis
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- Should principals be empowered leaders or branch managers? March 18, 2010The extent to which mechanistic thinking is corrupting our culture might be illustrated in relation to any number of fields of activity. For instance, our educational system suffers disastrously from the dominion of the administrative mind, which is, by the very nature of modern administration, generally mechanistic in its thinking (and therefore unfitted to […]
- Another D150 administrator put on paid leave March 16, 2010District 150 Director of Technology and Library Media Services Mary Ward has been put on paid administrative leave as the district performs an internal investigation. If past is prelude, taxpayers may be paying her to do nothing for a long time. The last administrator to be put on paid administrative leave, Mary Davis, [...] […]
- “Word on the Web” has Urich news conference video March 16, 2010The Journal Star recently started a new blog based on John Sharp and Karen McDonald’s Monday column “Word on the Street.” The blog is called “Word on the Web,” and so far it has been very good. New content is added regularly, and the information is much more timely than the weekly print [...] […]
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- FireFly - What Community Leaders Said March 15, 2010"Calling FireFly 'the poster child' of Peoria NEXT", National City regional president Doug Stewart said that technology was not in short supply in Peoria. "Ideas are not our problem. The issue is management, first, and capital second. If we are going to hit a home run, FireFly is the closest thing we've got."Doug was probab […]
- FireFly Closer to Burning Bright March 15, 2010So wrote Molly Parker, reporter for the JS in May of 2007. The resolution by the County to guarantee, along with the city, a six million dollar loan to FireFly by National City Bank, State Representative Dave Leitch, Vice-President, who personally urged the County Board to approve this loan. Quoting Ms. Parker,"The resolution passed both committees by v […]
- FireFly & G&D Integrated March 14, 2010On 5/28/07, Jennifer Davis and Molly Parker wrote "Finding a FireFly Fix Over Breakfast" in their 'Word on the Street' Column in the JS. Quoting the column, " braving buckets of snow, former Mayor Dick Carver, current Mayor Jim Ardis, state Representative Dave Leitch and a Peoria businessman showed up for breakfast at Le Peep. Over t […]
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