Posts Tagged ‘ WMBD 1470 ’

Are high-ethanol vehicles really in the city’s interest?

March 15, 2006
By Billy Dennis

WMBD 1470’s Dave Dahl seemed to go out of his way to not mention 4th District city council member Bill Spears’ name in his report about the council instructing city staff to do more to get bids on vehicles powered by E-85 ethanol-based fuel. The press and bloggers who attended last night’s council agreed that...
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Mystery illness takes Snell out of the game

January 19, 2006
By Billy Dennis

I caught a few minutes of last night’s Bradley University game on the radio, and I wondered why thay had former coach Joe Stowell doing play by play. It turns out that Dave Snell WMBD passed out before the game Snell, speaking to WMBD’s Greg and Dan Thursday morning from an Omaha hospital, said he...
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JS getting tougher on LaHood

January 5, 2006
By Billy Dennis

Kudos to the Journal Star’s award winning editorial page for again demanding that Ray LaHood take a stronger stand on ethics: So perhaps now would be a good time for Congressman Ray LaHood to retract his statement of seven months ago to The Hill – “the Newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress” – that...
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Welcome home

December 28, 2005
By Billy Dennis

Via WMBD 1470” About 70 soldiers from Galesburg’s Second Battalion, 123rd Field Artillery unit are expected to arrive in Fort Dix, New Jersey, on January 1. They’ll then fly into Quad City International Airport in Moline on January 1. The soldiers have been stationed in Iraq since November 2004.
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WMBD continues sucking up to ‘Congressman Ray’

December 23, 2005
By Billy Dennis

Yeah, that was me calling in to the Markley and Luciano Show on WMBD 1470 suggesting “March of the Elephants” as their “theme song” for Ray LaHood. I intended to remain anonymous, although I did manage to get in a dig at Marley and Luciano for the softball questions they are tossing at Lahood, Mayor...
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Now we know …

November 12, 2005
By Billy Dennis
Now we know …

… where Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and the other right-wing talking heads get their material. It’s all from the same source:
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WMBD 1470 is missing in action

September 12, 2005
By Billy Dennis

The station’s Website has been offline for several hours now. WMBD 1470,WMBD,peoria,radio
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