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Royster strikes again

When we last left former District 150 Superintendent Kay Royster, she had just been fired from a school district in Missouri. Well, since then, the state has audited the school district. From the July 29 St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

The Jennings School District ran annual deficits of $3 million for four years, mismanaged an expensive [...]

August 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: General News | 13 comments

Riggenbach takes neighbors to task for opposing OSF

At the last City Council meeting, the council approved a new institutional (N-1 zoning) plan for OSF St. Francis Medical Center. Part of the plan called for the future construction of an “energy center,” which is a euphemistic way of saying “industrial power plant.” Power plants are ugly, loud, smelly, and require no [...]

August 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: City Council, City of Peoria, OSF St. Francis | 36 comments