I’m working this evening, and my morning and early afternoon are taken up by Blog Peoria Project business. Member bloggers might want to read this important post.
Anyway, do check out Word on the Street. Apparently, there’s something Barbara Van Auken hasn’t been telling me.

Today’s Word on the Street mentions that parents who are upset at D150’s decision to cut a month’s work of instructional time out of their primary schools are taking their concerns to members of the Peoria City Council. I’ll paraphrase the positions taken by two of the council members quoted in the article. Mayor Ardis: [...]

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Today’s Word on the Street is especially newsy today. Dave Koehler comments on his civil union legislation. It looks like Elliot’s is gonna get some kind of liquor license today. Peoria County officials defend their silly little push poll that faked public support for raising taxes for the regional museum [...]

Karen McDonald has a good catch in today’s column. It turns out Dick Versace has been describing himself as both pro-life and pro-choice, depending on the person he’s speaking to.
And John Sharp gives us the school on the City of Peoria’s budgetary shortfall and the possibility that this is the year they will seek a [...]

In today’s Word on the Street, JS reporter John Sharp sought someone to comment on Peoria Heights Mayor Mark Allen’s comment that “those online bloggers didn’t bother to show their faces when we have public meetings on it. … They are real strong and tough online, but when we have the public meetings, no one [...]

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Never underestimate the value of getting your information from the source.
Peoria’s might be the site of a new steel plant. No word on how much cash and incentives, if any, taxpayers would be expected to cough up. Since one presumes Caterpillar would [...]

OMG! Be still my heart! If Jenny Davis back on the beat? It’s been about a month since Jenny left the City Council beat and Word on the Street to take a job as editor of one of those silly sections the JS prints that I never read. She did it because let her give [...]

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Clare Jellick’s article on the Manual restructuring is up. It includes the list of “recommendations” that the various subcommittees working on the plan asked the board to approve. The meat of the story is that they want the new Manual to operate under a longer school day, a longer [...]

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There are some ideas on how to restructure Manual High School. Too bad the public won’t hear them.
When you pay a consultant to advise you on what insurance carrier to you, you assume that the consultant isn’t getting money from the insurance carrier they recommend. Hence, Cat’s lawsuit.
I was under the [...]

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I didn’t have the staying power to sit through the entire Peoria City Council meeting last week. So of course in today’s Word on the Street, PJS reporter John Sharp had all sorts of juicy details I didn’t have about the final three hours of the meeting. Council members [...]

Yesterday’s Word on the Street: “Peoria County Board member Tim Riggenbach said he’s seeking the Republican nomination for the 92nd District seat being vacated by Aaron Schock.”
My reply: “I have it on good authority that Peoria County Board member Tim Riggenbach will NOT run for the Republican nomination for the 92nd District seat being vacated [...]

Some thoughts on today’s Word on the Street:

I see they finally got around to reporting on the controversy over Aaron Schock operating his 18th District U.S. House seat out of county GOP headquarters. I reported on it back on Sept. 20, 18 days ago. Kudos! Better late then never, I always say.
Members of the Peoria [...]

One of the first things I do when I wake up on Monday mornings is to go the the computer and read Molly Park and Jennifer Davis’ wonderful Word on the Street column. I was especially looking forward to today’s column because Labor Day marks the unofficial start of election season, where politicians take off [...]

Kudos to Jenny Davis and Molly Parker for a spot-on perfect Word on the Street column today. They lead with details about the corrupt (my word, not theirs) Peoria Civic Center Authority are hell bent to force taxpayers to finance a new hotel right next to the Civic Center.
The first plan fell through because of [...]

Oh my God.
Let’s start with the headline: LaHood flip-flops on ethics.
Brilliant and accurate.