I’m still under the weather, hence no new posts. Sorry. If I had time and felt like writing, I would put up posts on these topics:
- St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols is the 2008 Most Valuable Player.
- Ken Spirito is leaving Peoria. He got another job someplace else — I think on the radio they said Newport News. Congrats to him. He certainly improved air service to Peoria while he was here. Of course, he also raised taxes through his ambitious new terminal building project.
- District 150 is going to raise taxes again. They take more of our money each year, yet things never seem to get better.
- The Heart of Peoria Commission meets this Thursday morning at City Hall. Yes, we usually meet on Fridays, but our regularly-scheduled meeting would have ended up on the day after Christmas. So we rescheduled the December meeting for November 20.
- Why do people write Ann Landers with their problems? What is the thought process? “I’ve got to get help with this problem. Should I talk to my friends? My spouse? My favorite uncle? My pastor? My therapist? No! I’ll write to Ann Landers, instead. Because the best advice comes from a total stranger who knows nothing about me or my situation other than what I tell her. Besides, I would be too embarrassed for one other person to know my secret problem; I’d much rather share it with newspaper readers across the nation instead.”
About those school taxes…is there any recourse or should we bend over and take it up the tail pipe?
Wasn’t there the option to do away with the current school district organization, to force the election the entire school board?
THis may be poor timing, but I can’t resist.
If Dist. 150 raises taxes, what will that do, pray tell, to the Museum Group’s chances of pulling off a ‘tax’ increase? Obviously the Dist. 150 players and the Museum Group players are not on the same page.
Any takers?
What’s going on with keeping an airport boss around here?
The last two sure took off quickly.
Tip your waitress.
More money for District 150… hmmmm… on whose authority? How can a bunch of incompetent bureaucrats arbitrarily raise taxes in this country?
Oh… sorry, I got sidetracked. C.J.? You said things never seem to get better… of course they do. We now have a few very rich people sitting on their thrones on Wisconsin Ave. that just a few years ago were working for a living. Things are much better. We now have several very successful schools in the Peoria area (Dunlap, Peoria Christian, Notre Dame, Morton, Metamora, Bartonville) not to mention the large number of home schooled kids all getting really good educations. This is much better than it was just 10 years ago.