Archive for August, 2008

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Two years of planning, one year of programming, and six months of meetings and campaigning have boiled down to the Peoria City Council’s decision to keep moving forward and the Library Board’s settlement on a new North branch. In April 2007, local citizens cast a 72 percent landslide vote on behalf of a $35 million...
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From presidential endorsements to support from House majority leaders, candidates are campaigning hard to raise money—and votes—as the election draws near. With kids out of school and families on vacation, the November election may be a mere spark in the minds of voters. But for State Representative Aaron Schock and former WMBD Agricultural Reporter Colleen...
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With the rising cost of fuel and energy, many people are thinking about alternative ways to harness their energy, all while lessening their carbon footprint. One popular option is to use renewable energy to power their houses and cars. Renewable energy options all come from the sun, either directly or indirectly, and will be...
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Amazing. President George Bush comes to Peoria again and the smear merchants at the Peoria Journal Star see nothing positive about his visit. It’s hard to figure why the left-leaning newspaper and their intellectually-challenged writers would find anything negative about the leader of the greatest country in the world making a return to our...
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Anyone who’s seen TV’s Law & Order has seen a dramatization of the prickly relationship between police and prosecutors, so it shouldn’t be a surprise when any incumbent State’s Attorney is not endorsed by police groups. However, there are real risks in raising crime as the main issue in the campaign between Peoria County State’s...
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We are in the midst of that toasty torrid time of year… commonly called the dog days of summer! A time dominated by the doggone heat. You can feel so dog tired that you’re sicker than a dog. Things seem to be going to the dogs, so you just don’t feel like putting on...
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Listen to talk radio these days, and one gets the impression that the Republican Party is the party of the working class. It is the Democratic Party that caters to the whims of the rich, liberal elites, they say. Listen to it long enough, and you might begin to believe it. But if you saw the...
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by Dolores M. Klein, for Peoria National Organization for Women In July of 1980 at a Rally labeled Pro-Family by the sponsoring California arm of the Moral Majority, Conservative Caucus leader Howard Phillips (still active today) railed against government policies he felt were anti-family. The major result, in his eyes, “has been the...
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by Sharon Crews, West Peoria, IL District #150 has too many “irons in the fire,” and the latest—the Wacky Wednesday plan to cut 90 minutes from the primary school day to give teachers a common prep period has been deemed “legal,” but it certainly isn’t “right” for students. District Watch,...
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