Karen McCarron is 39 years old. She’ll have to serve 100% of her sentence according to news reports. And the sentence is 36 years. The would mean she will get out of jail when she’s 75, assuming she lives that long.
Here’s what I want to know. How do they come up with these sentences? She could have gotten as much as 110 years; the prosecutor asked for 50. The judge gave her 36.
Why 36? It’s so arbitrary. And what’s she going to do when she gets out at 75? She’ll have no family, no home, no pension, no job, and probably not very good health. She’ll end up being a ward of the state anyway. Why not just keep her in prison for life?
The Kellar Branch “Rail/Trail Committee” hasn’t met since February 15 and therefore missed their April 1 deadline. Why?
“I got busy at work and some things with the City Council and (other) things came up,” [4th Dist. Councilman Bill] Spears said. “We went to schedule it and obviously Easter hit. We had people on vacation.”
I’m sure the Journal Star Editorial Board will figure out a way to blame this latest setback on Pioneer. Spears says the committee will “likely meet next week,” according to the paper.
UPDATE: The Journal Star has inexplicably taken down the article; I haven’t checked the print version of the paper today to see if it’s in there. In any case, if you were wondering what it said, I happen to have a copy here:
Similar to the economic incentives the federal government will be mailing starting in May, the City of Peoria has decided to give out $100 to homeowners to incentivize home repair and maintenance. The $100 will be distributed in the form of gift cards to Home Depot and can be picked up on the fifth floor of City Hall in the Office of Economic Incentives.
