We’re moving.   We currently live in a two-bedroom home (great starter house), but have three kids.  My son’s bedroom has been the living room the past four months.  So, as they say on The Jeffersons, “we’re a-movin’ on up” to a bigger house.    If all goes as planned, we’ll be closing on the [...]

The Journal Star came out with their new obituary policies today.  Starting September 1, the Journal Star will only report “details of the person’s death, time and place of services, burial and visitation” for free.  Anything more than that will cost you $15 per column inch.  Some things for which they will now be charging include:  [...]

I was reading an excerpt of Yuval Levin’s essay from the journal The Public Interest on how the speed of technology adversely affects American politics. He has a paragraph on blogging I’d like to share here for your discussion:

Another example of the quickening of politics in the Information Age — and its mixed [...]

The city council, to my surprise and delight, decided not to pursue the water buyout tonight on a very close vote (6-5). Here’s how they voted (a “yea” vote was to pursue the buyout):

Yea: Grayeb, Gulley, Manning, Sandberg, Van Auken Nay: Ardis, Jacob, Morris, Nichting, Spears, Turner

Jacob, who had hardly said anything [...]

Dear City Council,

There seems to be some confusion over the city residents’ wishes regarding the proposed water buyout, so this letter is to give a little clarification. When we voted “no” in the most recent referendum, that meant that we didn’t want the city to purchase the water company. It’s as simple as [...]

I was checking out the Peoria Public School District 150 website, and I came across a link that said simply “Technology.”  I thought it looked intriguing, so I clicked on it and came across a plethora of internet links for students and teachers.  The most curious one was labeled “Internet Every Day.”  This links [...]