I was caught off guard by Pat Nichting’s decision (apparently) to not seek re-election to the Peoria City Council from the 5th District (kudos to Word on the Street for the scoop).
In general, I think Nichting represented the district the way he thought he should — by devoting much of his time and energy representing [...]

Well, they were never closed. But they were limited to those who registered. But it was too difficult for some people.
Have at it.
The difference: If I catch ANYONE behaving badly or dishonestly, I’ll ban them. If you don’t have an internal sensor that tells you what is and isn’t dishonest, then you will soon [...]

Via Merle Widmer:
Peoria County Board Chairman William (Bill) Prather called me Monday to inform me that for health reasons, he will not run for reelection at our Full Board Meeting Monday December 1, at 6:00. I had previously announced I would not run for a third term as Vice-Chairman. These two Chairmanship office positions will [...]

All Blog Peoria sites — including Peoria Pundit — will be down for emergency maintenance tonight. The “window” will be from midnight tonight to 6 a.m. Central time. The emergency notification I just received states that “no one customer” will be down for longer than 30 minutes. The downtime is required to fix the issues [...]

All links via the Peoria Journal Star:

Twenty-four members of the Illinois Air National Guard’s 182nd Airlift Wing are back home after a mission in Afghanistan. Welcome home. And best wished to the 80 or so members of the wing still serving overseas. Kudos to Andy Kravetz for a good article.
Phil Luciano tells the story of [...]

I’m too busy working and too wrapped up in Blog Peoria nuts and bolts stuff to get much blogging done today. Go visit C.J.’s site for updates from Tuesday’s Peoria City Council meeting.
I’ll no doubt get some stuff posted Wednesday evening and on Thanksgiving. This weekend will be filled with overtime. Yay.

For four days only, a $50 order from my CafePress store receives free shipping. Just be sure to use the code “FEMHOL10”
If you haven’t visited in a while, you will notice many new designs, including high school designs.

(press release)
Mayor Jim Ardis announced today that he intends to file nominating petitions for another term as Mayor. With solid support from his family, Mayor Ardis is committed to continuing his focus on providing a strong environment for business, maintaining an intense focus on crime and supporting strong neighborhoods with [...]

As of 11:30 p.m. Sunday, anyone who sent me a note saying they cannot make a comment because they cannot register, or that they cannot sign in using their existing user name and password, please let me know. I have manually registered anyone who has sent me an email or used the contact page. Check [...]

This is the letter that Diane Vespa — a friend and fellow blogger — sent to members of District 150 Watch, the group Diane helped form to fight the district’s mostly abandoned effort to drastically shorten the school day for grade school students so that teachers would have group planning time.
Hello all!
As you may recall, [...]