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  • Emtronics: hightower: Why don’t you Google it and do some reading. Maybe you’ll learn something
  • lanestar7: The one and only time I saw a movie at the museum I noticed a big either dent or scrape in the center left...
  • Jim: My biggest problem with this plan is the lack of actual growth for the city. This does not grow anything in...
  • lanestar7: No one has ever made a convincing argument? The Labor Center at UC Berkeley might not agree with you...
  • Emil: School fnances are a mess, Park District can’t attract quality softball tournaments because fields and...
  • hightower62: No one has made a convincing argument that employing an unemployed person costs the government...
  • Mr. Lane: Conrad, I agree. I don’t understand it when people say it’s so hard to avoid Wal-Mart. I made a...
  • Vonster: Lane: However, I agree that location is not good for a Wal-Mart for some of the reason you mention. I hope...
  • Vonster: Hightower: Wal-Mart is bad no matter what. Don’t you listen??
  • Dennis in Peoria: First, this proposal has to be approved by the Peoria Public Schools District 150 Board of...
  • Mike: hightowner62: As a company think about using as your strategy to hire part time low wage people. It is self...
  • The Mouse: If you want to make yourself sick, you can do it for less than that.
  • Emtronics: For $25 you can get seat at the Mayor’s breakfast and watch as he hands the deed over to WalMart...
  • The Mouse: it’s called crony capitalism. If most companies proposed something like that, they’d be...
  • Emtronics: Because Walmart staff discourages their people to hold other jobs and they treat their employees like...

Henry Holling is the interim city manager

The Peoria City Council met in special session tonight to name former Caterpillar executive Henry Holling the interim city manager. He is scheduled to start work Feb. 3, but will not assume the duties of interim city manager until the close of business on Feb. 15, which is Randy Oliver’s last day. He will [...]

The Center for Prevention of Abuse outraged by portrayal of sexual assault victims

I received this press release today:

PEORIA, IL—The CENTER for PREVENTION of ABUSE believes that all persons deserve the right to live free from violence, regardless of “collateral” issues.

In recent news articles and coverage of the arrest(s) of Monterius Hinkle, it has been suggested by local leadership that female victims of violence are [...]

State of the City address

You can read a copy of Mayor Ardis’s “State of the City” address by downloading a PDF copy of it from the city’s website.

What to think about Holling

I don’t know Henry Holling. All I know is what I read in the papers. And there’s a doozy of an article in the paper today.

It’s been previously reported that Holling is being considered for interim city manager after Randy Oliver leaves on February 15. It has also been reported that Holling was [...]

Zoning commissioners, council members skip LDC training

There was a big flap last November when the Zoning Commission (and subsequently the City Council) undercut the new Land Development Code (LDC) for the Heart of Peoria Plan area by approving a special use request from St. Ann’s Church against city staff’s recommendation. Staff had recommended that the architecture of the proposed building [...]

Peoria Comprehensive Plan online

From a news release:

HELP PLAN PEORIA WEBPAGE AND ONLINE SURVEY

The City of Peoria is launching the second phase of public participation in the Comprehensive Plan process with the launch of the www.planpeoria.com web page and online survey.

The Comprehensive Plan serves two major functions for a community. First, it sets an [...]

Upcoming Events

A couple of important dates for your calendar:

Blogger Bash tonight at Buffalo Wild Wings near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. Billy has the details.

JammSammich Tenth Anniversary Concert is this Saturday, Feb. 2, at Crusen’s on War Memorial Drive. Show starts at 8:30. Believe me, if you like live music and especially [...]

Plans for analog holdout thwarted by dying TV

I had it all planned out. I was going to be the digital television holdout. I already reserved a coupon for a digital-to-analog converter box so I could keep using my TV to get over-the-air broadcasts well past the February 2009 cutoff for analog signals.

I like being non-conformist in some ways. I don’t [...]

Monday Open Thread

What’s Mobile Kuzen – Free ringtones, metro pcs ringtones wallpaper, free themes, free downloads for Siemens, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola mobile phones.

on your mind? Leave a comment and get some discussion started!

All right, we’ll call it a draw

I feel like I’m caught in a Monty Python movie every time I read a story like this.

David Pittman, the Vice President of Recreation Trail Advocates, says the recent use of the [Kellar Branch] rail line should not sway people against the trail.

In other words, the STB’s decision to allow both [...]