edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
Right after this happened, and I was writing posts about it, all I kept hearing from folks is how these people were all friends and how no one wanted to seek revenge (or a long sentence) for what happened to Danny Dahlquist.
Now, we have the lawsuit.
The 22-count suit [...]
Former Peoria journalist Jonathan Ahl announced on C.J.’s site that he has deleted his blog.
That’s a shame.
Original post by Billy Dennis
[...]Now that Rupert Murdoch announced all his newspaper properties are putting up a pay firewall of some sort, I advised other newspapers to follow suit. This may be happening in Boston:
“Nothing is absolute, but we are heading toward some sort of consumer pay model,” for its Web site Boston.com, [...]
Access to BlogPeoria Project sites has been intermittent this morning. A support ticket has been send to the hosts and they are working on it as I write this. I normally don’t make announcement about hiccups in access, but this has been longer than usual.
I’ll keep you all posted.
[...]
Two interesting bits of GateHouse Media economic news from the Turner Report.
First, the bad news:
The quarterly report filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission, showed a sizable decrease in revenue from the same quarter the previous year, with losses in advertising, circulation, and printing, and a $526.1 [...]
Apparently, some of my commenters are getting all their health-care reform news from Rush Limbaugh. So, to provide some clarity, here are five health care myths being spread by the GOP.
Hopefully, this will reduce the wacka-doodle in the comments section.
Original post by [...]
This just arrived in my inbox. I’m not endorsing any of John Bambeneck’s suggestions, although I agree with most fo the goals he expresses. I’m printing this to generate some discussion:
Have at it:
Friends-
Are you fed up with the mess in Springfield? I know I am. Years of [...]
A Wall Street Journal article on News Corp. earnings included this little tidbit:
[News Corp owner Rupert] Murdoch said News Corp. plans to charge reader fees for all its news Web sites, which aside from The Journal include newspapers such as the Australian, U.K. tabloids the Sun and News of [...]
A Wall Street Journal article on News Corp. earnings included this little tidbit:
[News Corp owner Rupert] Murdoch said News Corp. plans to charge reader fees for all its news Web sites, which aside from The Journal include newspapers such as the Australian, U.K. tabloids the Sun and News of [...]
According to the list I found at the City of Peoria Website, the Randolph-Roanoke Residential Association did not have an event to coincide with today’s National Night Out Against Crime.
So what was I to do?
I went begging for an invitation on Facebook.
(First, I’m going to apologize for [...]
If you are a fan of weather news and have a Facebook account, you ought to visit Sandy Gallant’s weather album taken from the stations’ Skywatch camera positioned at Methodist Medical Cente. The picks show the line of clouds moving in and bringing the rain and wind. I saw the [...]
I guess I’m just another media Brownshirt for making fun of these people.
Original post by Billy Dennis
[...]Here’s one man’s opinion: journalists are nothing but lazy thieves.
The Internet is also making reporters lazy. In fact, many believe there’s a lower standard for Internet journalism. Don’t believe it? The editor of Wired magazine just wrote a book about why content should be free. Come to find out [...]
His computer is still hiccuping on occasion, but Merle Widmer has managed to get two new posts up on his site, here and here.
Original post by Billy Dennis
[...]Anyone prone to upset stomach or sudden bouts of projectile vomiting are advised to not read the following story:
Jeanne Williamson, an assistant superintendent of school operations at District 150 before she left in 2002 to become superintendent of Dunlap School District 323, was hired as a consultant. She retired [...]
David Jordan reported this on Peoria Station on June 30:
PEORIA – Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection will drop its nonstop service between Peoria and Atlanta on September 1. The airline’s online schedules show two daily roundtrips through July, then one through August. Delta Connection had reduced Peoria service [...]
From a press release:
Peoria, Illinois (August 3, 2009)–For the first time since 1992, Caterpillar employees and retirees who participate in the Caterpillar Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan will be able to choose Methodist Medical Center for their healthcare needs when Methodist joins the Caterpillar PPO network next July. A [...]
Since local news organizations pretty much ignore state politics — except trials and budged crises — most Peorians probably have never heard of State Sen. James Clayborne. He’s the Illinois Senate majority leader. And he’s mulling over a run for governor.
Rich Miller predicts that Clayborn would make interesting candidate:
[...]
Timothy Riggenbach hasn’t even completed his first summer as a member of the Peoria City Council, and it’s clear he’s forgotten exactly who he is supposed to represent.
Third District City Councilman Timothy Riggenbach hopes opposition to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s wishes to someday build an “energy center” in [...]
The Earth is not flat.
Elvis is dead.
Paul is NOT dead.
Man did walk on the Moon.
George Bush did not conspire to blow up the World Trade Center.
And Barack Obama was born in the United States, is a citizen and is eligible to be president of the [...]
Found on Facebook:
Valerie Umholtz will be holding a press conference at 11 am on Wednesday August 5th, at the West steps of the Tazewell County Courthouse, to announce her candidacy for Circuit Judge. She would really like to have her friends and supporters share this important moment with her.
She [...]
Found on Facebook:
Valerie Umholtz will be holding a press conference at 11 am on Wednesday August 5th, at the West steps of the Tazewell County Courthouse, to announce her candidacy for Circuit Judge. She would really like to have her friends and supporters share this important moment with her.
She [...]
I noticed that the Road Ranger gas station at University and War Memorial is no longer a Road Ranger. All the RR signage is down, and a cheap banner is up announcing it will soon be the site of a Marathon station.
New owners? Or did the current owner switch [...]
Blog birthdays for the month include:
4: Merle Widmer’s PEORIA WATCH (2004)
11: My Flock Rocks (2007)
17: Knight in Dragonland (2006)
21: Get the Stink Off (2008)
30: Eyebrows McGee (2004)
And July anniversaries were:
28: cjay (2008)
30: Emerge (2008)
31: The Usual Suspects (2007)
Wanna get your blog on the lis? [...]
Do you have electricity in your home? Sick of Comcast and their crappy service and caps on bandwith? Don’t want to pay for a telephone line just do get DSL service that’s even slower that Comcast?
Well you won’t have to wait long. The IEEE is two months or so [...]
The State Journal Register’s Bernard Schoenburg reads Peoria Pundit, which is where he saw this video of Aaron Schock suggesting that President Obama has not sufficiently proven he was born in the United States.
Schock would later equivocate, saying he assumes Obama was born in the United States because he [...]
You remember that guy from Sparland who got stoned on meth, went for a spin crossed the center line on killed a mother and daughter on Christmas Day 2004? And then later admitted he had smoked some meth?
Well, he’s out of the slammer now, thanks to the convoluted logic [...]
You remember that guy from Sparland who got stoned on meth, went for a spin crossed the center line on killed a mother and daughter on Christmas Day 2004? And then later admitted he had smoked some meth?
Well, he’s out of the slammer now, thanks to the convoluted logic [...]
@greggrunberg So what did you write on his picture? Something dirty, I hope … in reply to greggrunberg #
@Matthom Run out of Vaseline? in reply to Matthom #
@jayette peoria pundit at gmail dot com in reply to jayette [...]
I suspected is was about this.
A little known fact of the March 13, 2007, agreement through which GateHouse Media bought the Peoria Journal Star and other Copley Press newspapers in Illinois was that Copley would pay termination benefits for certain employees.
The lawsuit filed by GateHouse against Copley on [...]
WMBD-31’s Iris Perez had a good report at 6 p.m. about how some Peoria businesses were charging too much sales tax. But there was a minor gaff:
If you shop at any of the businesses at the convention center, civic center or three downtown hotels you’d be shopping in the [...]
I don’t know much, just these details that hit my inbox a few moments ago:
Gatehouse Media Illinois Holdings, Inc. v. The Copley Press, Inc. et al
Plaintiff: Gatehouse Media Illinois Holdings, Inc.
Defendant: The Copley Press, Inc. and Does
Case Number: 2:2009cv05536
Filed: July 29, 2009
Court: California Central District Court
Office: Western Division – [...]
Via Editor & Publisher:
GateHouse Media’s Times Newspapers, a group of six community papers in Central Illinois, is the pilot site for SpeedyAd, the newest product from MultiAd, Peoria, Ill., is a self-service advertising solution that allows newspapers to reach new print advertisers via the newspapers’ Web sites.
This is what [...]
There aren’t many details yet, but police are investigating a murder in the 1500 block of West Margaret.
Source at the scene tells me that the crime scene is the home near his, and they’ve got his driveway blocked off with yellow police tape.
UPDATE from source: “whole block is [...]
I don’t know much, just these details that hit my inbox a few moments ago:
Gatehouse Media Illinois Holdings, Inc. v. The Copley Press, Inc. et al
Plaintiff: Gatehouse Media Illinois Holdings, Inc.
Defendant: The Copley Press, Inc. and Does
Case Number: 2:2009cv05536
Filed: July 29, 2009
Court: California Central District Court
Office: Western Division – [...]
From my inbox:
The Chadwick Homeowners Association will be having a contractor painting the decorative stamped entrance way on Polo Place next week. This work will require Polo Place to be closed to all traffic between Koerner Road and Vauxhall Place from August 4-6. All traffic to and from the [...]
There aren’t many details yet, but police are investigating a murder in the 1500 block of West Margaret.
Source at the scene tells me that the crime scene is the home near his, and they’ve got his driveway blocked off with yellow police tape.
UPDATE from source: “whole block is [...]
Two days ago, citizen journalist C.J. Summers blew the lid off how some north Peoria businesses were ripping off customers by charging a tax that didn’t apply. C.,J. found no one at the state of local level really gave a rat’s ass, as long as they got theirs.
Two days [...]
The Journal Star’s award-winning editorial page opines that it is concerned at how long it took for the public to learn Illinois’ 3rd District Appellate Court ordered school shooter Dione Alexander freed.
But cases like Alexander’s, or the one concerning former Peoria attorney Robert Becker, whose conviction on a charge [...]
Hide your fake Dr. Pepper stash!*
According to his Facebook page, intrepid former (which is better than “formerly intrepid”) WCBU newsie Jonathan Ahl and family are returning to Peoria this weekend. Woo hoo.
* Details here.
Original post by Billy Dennis
[...]I have come to the conclusion that people who insist on a public prayer when eating out informally are as at least as interested in making sure everyone knows how pious they are as they are in their meal. Just saying is all.
There’s a guy who sits inside the [...]
So, I’m sitting inside Whitey’s last night, drowning my sorrows in Diet Pepsi and a losing Cubs game, when look out the window I notice a guy shambling by. He was wearing a red shirt and I swear for the life of me looked like DeWayne Bartels might look 20 [...]
Leave it to Peoria’s top citizen journalist C.J. Summers to break this story. Seems like Northwoods Mall stores and some other shops in north Peoria (I refuse to capitalize “North”) are charging customers 9 percent sales tax, when the legal rate is only 8 percent. C.J. tried to get someone, [...]
As I said previously, tonight’s meeting of the Peoria City Council is going to be rather long. And since even a short meeting is too depressing to contemplate, I think I will pass.
So, I think I’ll spend the evening at Whitey’s, enjoying some pizza and watching the NL Central [...]
As I said previously, tonight’s meeting of the Peoria City Council is going to be rather long. And since even a short meeting is too depressing to contemplate, I think I will pass.
So, I think I’ll spend the evening at Whitey’s, enjoying some pizza and watching the NL Central [...]
While a passenger in an east-bound car on War Memorial, I saw two Peoria Police cars, lights flashing, stopped in the Meadowbrook/Brandywine intersection. They were keeping cars from pulling into the middle of a rather long funeral procession. There was a Peoria County Sheriff’s Department car at the head of [...]
The Earth is not flat.
Elvis is dead.
Paul is NOT dead.
Man did walk on the Moon.
George Bush did not conspire to blow up the World Trade Center.
And Barack Obama was born in the United States, is a citizen and is eligible to be president of the [...]
It’s that time of the month again: Pledge Day.
Any donations made go toward costs incurred, such as annual domain renewal, two site hosting accounts, professional support and high speed Internet.
You can use the PayPal donate button on this page. You can use any major credit card and a [...]
Birther: Individuals promoting eligibility claims have been dubbed birthers, drawing a parallel with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, who have been nicknamed “truthers”. The movement has been widely criticized by mainstream conservatives. A few members of congress have proposed legislation to prevent future occurrences of such issues. — Wikipedia.
According to this [...]
Today’s Word on the Street leads with details about how Caterpillar Inc. was revealed to be a behind-the-scenes contributor to the Build the Block campaign that convinced taxpayers to pony up for the plan to build a museum on the site of the former Sears in downtown Peoria.
Caterpillar sees [...]
From my inbox:
Rainfall in the City of Peoria has caused a sewer overflow into the Illinois River recently from one or more locations shown on the map located here.
When this warning is posted, please avoid full-body contact with the Illinois River in the area downstream from Detweiller Marina, [...]
The Peoria Journal Star has an article how there are elections in 2010.
Which is what the headline should have read. Instead, the headline says: “Local candidates gearing up for election.” Well, which elections about a year away, one would assume so.
Problem is, except for someone in Pekin who [...]
