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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...

Big non-profits doth protest too much

The Journal Star is reporting that some area non-profit businesses are concerned about the possibility of the City Council imposing a 5% utility tax on water:

With the City Council weighing a possible 5 percent utility tax on water, not-for-profit organizations such as hospitals, colleges and local governments like the Peoria Park District are [...]