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An online magazine of news and opinion in River City
Saturday, July 14, 2012
AlterNet: Hot News & Views
- Can Rape Jokes Ever Be Funny? By Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
- Feds' Threat to Shut Down World's Largest Dispensary Reveals Motives Behind Pot War By Scott Morgan | Drug War Chronicle
- Feeling the Bain: Romney Makes Rounds of Nightly Newscasts By Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
- Mississippi's Only Abortion Clinic Gets Reprieve--For Now By Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
- Bill Moyers: Can We Make Banks Accountable? By Staff | AlterNet
- Policeman Threatened to Kill Michelle Obama By Steven D. | BooMan Tribune
- Mitt Romney's Week of "Pretending to Be Interested in Black People" By Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
- On Woody Guthrie’s Centennial, Celebrating the Life, Politics & Music of the "Dust Bowl Troubadour" By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez | Democracy Now!
- Occupy LA Stages Artful Protest during City’s Art Walk and Draws Riot Police By Joan Donovan | Occupy The Social
- This Week in the War on Voting: The 'Rosa Parks of Voter ID' in PA By Joan McCarter | Daily Kos
Who was that biker?
Who was that biker I was behind yesterday evening all the way from Farmington Road to Nebraska Avenue with the licence plate that read "at large?"
Friday, July 13, 2012
Weather Underground
Friday Night
Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. Low of 72F. Winds less than 5 mph. Chance of rain 20%. |
Saturday
Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 95F. Winds from the SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%. |
About time
I used to take Koerner Road into work every day. I am surprised that part of it were 50 mph, considering how unsafe the road really is. Kudos to lowering the speed limit. The trick now is enforcing it. There is almost NO right-of-way on the side of this road in either direction from Route 8 to War Memorial Drive. I don't see how any officer could pull anyone over.
Will anti-landlord ordinance work in Peoria?
From PJStar:
BARTONVILLE —
The Village Board unanimously approved a new ordinance Thursday night that will allow the city to punish landlords for their tenants' frequent criminal behavior.
Under the ordinance, a landlord will be fined $500 after three criminal offenses as defined by the ordinance take place at a property in a year. Each subsequent offense will result in a $750 fine.
Once a property has been deemed a nuisance, the police will notify the property owner, who will have 10 days to respond with a plan to take care of it.
OK, folks. I'll be devil's advocate for this. Name me ONE address where the landlord in Peoria would be penalized for this. Name just one.
Thought so.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Must Reads from NetRightDaily
- Another failed 'War on Drugs' — NetRightDaily
- Is outsourcing so bad? — L.A. Times
- Outsourcing for dummies (including the willfully ignorant) — Cato
- Cartoon: Step in the right direction — Warren Toons
- 55% think ObamaCare is a tax hike — Quinnipiac
- Obama is actually out-raising Romney by $125 million — Washington Examiner
- Debt has increased $64,000 per taxpayer under Obama — CNS News
- Minimum wage laws are costly for the unemployed — Jeff Jacoby
- Spending & Saving — Don Boudreaux
- Obama offers change corporations can believe in — Washington Examiner
- Rise of the global tax collectors — Washington Times
- TSA should follow the law — Cato
AlterNet: Hot News & Views
By Bill Scher | Campaign for America's Future
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
By Roxane Gay | Salon
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
By Staff | AlterNet
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
By Bill Gibron | PopMatters
By Angela Lee | AlterNet
By Akbar Ahmed | Campus Progress
By Shiuan Butler | Women's Media Center
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Bartonville ordinace would penalize landlords for behavior of bad tenants
Are you paying attention, Peoria City Council? Bartonville is doing something that some Peoria neighborhood activists would KILL to have:
Landlords could face stiff fines for the actions of their tenants under a nuisance property ordinance that will be considered by Village Board members Thursday.Interesting. Many neighborhood activists blame absentee landlords for most of their problems. This would be one way to get after them. But blamning landlords for problems their tenants create? It seems like third party guilt to me. It seems to me this would force landlords to run a criminal background check on tenants AND their relatives.
Property owners could be subject to fines beginning at $500 if three criminal violations occur in their rented residences within a year.
The types of criminal offenses are detailed in the ordinance, which calls for $750 fines for each additional offense after the third in a year's span.
Matt Buedel is live Tweeting an armed standoff (Updated)
Here's where Matt Buedel is live Tweeting an armed standoff::
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He reports that the standoff ended peacefully, with the suspect giving himself up and surrendering for an evaluation.
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He reports that the standoff ended peacefully, with the suspect giving himself up and surrendering for an evaluation.
Weather Underground for Thursday
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Fire makes short work of apartment building in Bartonville
Holy crap! It didn't take long for this apartment to go up in flames:
BARTONVILLE — A fire that may have ignited from discarded charcoal Wednesday destroyed an eight-unit apartment building and sent one resident leaping from a second-story window.
That man suffered a broken ankle but no other serious injuries, while only one other occupant was inside 5609 S. Adams St. about 1:30 p.m. when the building quickly became engulfed in flames.
Green Party’s Jill Stein Names VP Pick
from the Wall Street Journal:
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced her vice presidential choice on Wednesday, naming Cheri Honkala, an anti-poverty advocate from Philadelphia and national coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign.
“My running mate has been on the front lines fighting for the American poor, taking on the banks, taking on foreclosures, standing up for children most at risk,” Ms. Stein said. Ms. Stein also said that her party, running heavily on environmental and economic populist themes, would compete nationally and take their message to the American people.
At an event at the National Press Club in Washington, Ms. Stein laid out her campaign platform, heavily emphasizing what she called “the Green New Deal” of economic justice and jobs for all Americans who want them, tough financial regulation, political reform to reduce the role of money in politics, and a transition to a “green” economy.
Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis Grows in Coalfields, As Coal Baron Entertains PGA
Golf Tour, Rock Stars
jeffbiggers- Odds That The Record Heat Was a Fluke: 1 in 1.6 Million
By Joe Romm | ThinkProgress - New Short Film Shows How Extreme Weather is Our New Reality
By Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet A Good Move For Wind
Mary Anne Hitt- As Japan Says Fukushima Disaster "Man-Made" & "Preventable," Fears Grow for Nuclear Plants Worldwide
- By Amy Goodman | Democracy Now
- How Record Heat and Drought Are Hiking World Food Prices
- By Rebecca Leber | Think Progress
Recorder's Office to Host Tech Demo
Peoria - On Thursday, July 12, from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m., the Peoria County Recorder of Deeds Office is hosting a technology demonstration of its recording services in Room G-4 of the Peoria County Courthouse, 324 Main Street, Peoria. The demonstration will showcase the office's state of the art recording process and revenue potential of additional software. Public is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please call Nancy Horton, Recorder of Deeds, at (309) 672-6090.
The Must reads
- Environmental extremists exposed as political goliaths — NetRightDaily
- Budget insanity — John Stossel
- We don't pay for tax cuts, we pay for spending! — Human Events
- Obama's tax hike vs. Clinton's tax hike — Campaign 2012
- The invincible lie — Thomas Sowell
- ObamaCare a minefield for workers — The Oklahoman
- Shocker: Maryland's high taxes chase away high earners — CNBC
- GOP criticizes outsourcing that it once supported — Washington Examiner
- Obama and Romney are as different as two peas in a pod — Reason
- How cronyism hurts the economy — LearnLiberty.org
- The power of intimidation– NetRightDaily
- Repeal of ObamaCare is only the first step — Washington Examiner
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Dan Rutherford, man of the people
That's right, Dan Rutherford posted this picture about how novel it was for him to be eating lunch in his car. While he was being driven between events. By a driver.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Visit Peoria24Seven
It's my brand new news blog for news starved Peorians. Right now I'm covering crime news (I have the most complete blotter coverage in town) and city council news. We also link to some of the best bloggers in town.
Visit Peoria24Seven.
Visit Peoria24Seven.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Site issues at The Blog Peoria Project should be resolved soon
Several days ago, I upgraded The Blog Peoria Project to the most recent version of WordPress. The process seemed to go well, but I soon discovered that any new or existing image that was uploaded to any member blog would not appear in readers' browsers, either part of a post are by viewing the file directly.
Also, the front page of the site would not appear. Also, I soon discovered that any attempt to view any individual post failed.
I contacted the hosting company, and I have been working with them to resolve this issue. It has taken longer than I expected, and I have communicated my concern about this to the hosting company. I am assured that the repair is underway.
I am sorry to bloggers and readers for the inconvenience. I am cross posting this message to all my sites.
Cross posted from TellPeoria Online Media.
Also, the front page of the site would not appear. Also, I soon discovered that any attempt to view any individual post failed.
I contacted the hosting company, and I have been working with them to resolve this issue. It has taken longer than I expected, and I have communicated my concern about this to the hosting company. I am assured that the repair is underway.
I am sorry to bloggers and readers for the inconvenience. I am cross posting this message to all my sites.
Cross posted from TellPeoria Online Media.
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