Local: Deadbeats abound in Peoria city and county

An email from Merle Widmer might be of interest:

“Also, you could point out on your blog site that RiverStation also owes the County $46,407.00 and that Globe Energy owes the County $170,873.00 and hasn’t made a single payment since the County lent them the money back on June 27, 2007. Also that the In-Play bankruptcy cost the county a bundle of which we will get nothing back as the County is always in the third or fourth position on our Gap loan Program.  We get our “clients” on the recommendations of the EDC, a division of Heartland Partnership.

I was on the loan committee until I protested what we were doing too loudly and too often and was not reappointed a year and a half ago.

Well, Merle, that’s what you get for getting in the way of all that synergy and critical mass.