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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...
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  • 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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Chamber of Commerce inconsistent on tax increases

Here’s an interesting postscript to the library referendum vote. The last time the idea of a property tax increase was floated was in 2003 when some city council members suggested it to eliminate the dreaded garbage fee. At that time, the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce had this to say (according to City [...]

April 29th, 2007 | Category: Chamber of Commerce, City of Peoria | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

New Urbanism in 10 minutes a day, Pt. 1

I found a great video of Andres Duany talking about “new urbanism” on YouTube. Duany was the consultant that came to Peoria in 2002 and wrote the Heart of Peoria Plan. This video is a lecture he gave in San Antonio, but the principles are the same. It’s about 90 minutes long [...]

April 29th, 2007 | Category: New Urbanism | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Cardinals pitcher killed in car wreck

Tonight’s game between the Cardinals and Cubs was postponed indefinitely due to the tragic death of Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock. He apparently ran into the back of a tow truck on I-64 in St. Louis about 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning. He was 29 and single. MSNBC has a picture of his SUV [...]

April 29th, 2007 | Category: St. Louis Cardinals | One comment - (Comments are closed)