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  • precinct committeeman: If you can walk into a hospital, you can walk to a public hospital.
  • Stephen Scanlan-Yerly: This bill mandates that you carry insurance. Thats what it does. The federal government will...
  • Emtronics: BTW, walk into a private hospital in a big city needing emergency care and see how fast you are loaded in...
  • Emtronics: The health care system in this country as it stands now, can not go on. The costs keep rising (39%) for...
  • Stephen Scanlan-Yerly: So why kcdad would you, of all people, be at all supportive of this bill. Corporations, that...
  • charlie: “requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency...
  • charlie: Sharon, Sharon Sharon… it’s only money.
  • charlie: Sud O Nym: Neither am I, but you are getting close!
  • Stephen Scanlan-Yerly: Emtronics I am just confused where the denied treatment situation is happening. You say in...
  • precinct committeeman: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)[1] is a U.S. Act of Congress...
  • Sharon Crews: Edison and Johns Hopkins. $150,000+ is on the agenda to buy more equipment and textbooks for...
  • Emtronics: Stephen, not here in Peoria but people in bigger cities like New York and Chicago have been taken to...
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  • no special treatment: With all the cuts announced why isn’t Edison on the table? And why not cut sports?...
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Wait for it….

I know you’re all waiting with bated breath for me to comment on Bob Manning’s proposal to District 150. I’m deliberately holding off until the whole plan comes out, instead of the bits and pieces that have been reported in the paper the past couple of days. It looks interesting, doesn’t it?

One World Café to expand with a little help from the city

One World Café, established in 1994 at the corner of Main and University, recently purchased the former Lagron-Miller building to their immediate east and is trying to secure financing to expand their restaurant:

Their expansion plans include the relocation of the kitchen and upgrade of appliances, reconfiguration of the dining room to increase customer capacity, creation [...]

Hey Bloomington, hurry to Peoria! Gas is only $2.96/gal. here!

This is a pretty funny story from today’s Pantagraph — especially the comments section. Apparently, a rumor got started in Bloomington-Normal yesterday that gas prices outside of the twin cities, from Champaign to Peoria, were up to $4 per gallon! So, everyone was rushing to the gas stations to fill up at $2.96 [...]

Bradley’s 1991 Plan an interesting read

Bradley University first filed an Official Development Plan (ODP) in 1991 when the city created the N1 (Institutional) zoning designation. Since then, it has been amended four times, expanding their institutional boundaries each time, but the balance of the plan is still in effect. The largest addition was the St. James apartments east [...]