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Oct. 23 council agenda portends another protracted meeting

Last week, the council meeting lasted six hours, starting on Tuesday and ending on Wednesday. That’s probably not going to happen this coming Tuesday (Lord willing), but if the agenda is any indication, it’s still going to be a relatively long meeting. Here’s the agenda for Tuesday night’s council meeting:

Still waiting for Park Board report on televising meetings

From the April 27, 2007, Peoria Park Board minutes:

Mr. Christopher J. Summers read from a letter he wrote to the Park Board regarding the question of whether or not to televise Park Board meetings on the public access channel. VICE PRESIDENT CUMMINGS MOVED STAFF PREPARE A STUDY OR REPORT WHICH WOULD GIVE THE BOARD A [...]

Capital dollars for the Heart of Peoria

Although the Heart of Peoria Commission is currently slated to receive no funding in the city’s proposed 2008 capital budget, that doesn’t mean the Heart of Peoria area is getting no funding for projects.

City Manager Randy Oliver sent me this breakdown of the funding that is currently proposed:

The Heart of Peoria area is [...]

City Council budget session minutes released

Did you miss the special City Council meeting on Monday where they discussed the proposed 2008 budget? Here is the meat of the official minutes from that meeting, which were released today (they’re long, so click on the “Read the rest of this entry” link below to see the whole thing):

City Manager Randy Oliver [...]

Beware of “fake news” on TV

When is TV news real journalism and when is it fake? According to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), it’s fake when it’s nothing more than a “video news release,” or “VNR”:

Video news releases are public relations videos designed to look like television news stories. The vast majority of VNRs are funded by [...]