Archive for January, 2009

NEWS RELEASE Date: January 27, 2009 Released by: Alma Brown, Communications Manager, 494-8554 Subject: PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING COMCAST CABLE SERVICES The City of Peoria and Comcast Cable will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, at 6:30 p.m.  The meeting will take place at Peoria City Hall, in City Council Chambers (Room 400). The purpose of the...
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Holiday lights have faded but upcoming elections are igniting a blaze of politics and policy that has city residents feeling the heat. Election Day may be over, but politics is just getting started in Peoria County with the mayor’s seat, five district city council positions, and a spot on the District 150 school board up...
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Rather than New Year’s Resolutions, something the majority of people no longer do, perhaps we should instead endeavor to learn more about our immediate community and try to find ways to positively impact that community. This reporter recently found some tidbit pieces of information that I wanted to share with my fellow Peorians. We...
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Practically everything in society has gone paperless: bills, statements, gift certificates, etc. Why not prescriptions? Health care professionals and government officials are making a strong push for more doctors to prescribe medication paperless. An electronic prescription is one where a doctor writes all the necessary information on a computer and then sends it directly...
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EXCLUSIVE NEWS We start the New Year with some exclusive news. Rumor has it that former Richwoods High School basketball star Billy Cole is unhappy at the University of Illinois and just might be interested in transferring to Bradley. How great would that be if true! Cole has reason to be displeased. He was...
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Winter’s when even anti-government conservatives might find common ground with progressives in appreciating one aspect of the country’s “cooperative commonwealth” – public services. After all, taxpayers and especially motorists need their government to do what individual citizens cannot, whether it’s building schools and staffing them, or building roads and clearing them. But sometimes a zeal...
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Upon reviewing scientific discoveries from 2008, there are a few that grabbed my attention. Quite a few actually, on the web, and in “Discover” magazine, but I only have room here to list just a few of the more interesting. * Vast areas of sea floor have been found to be dead zones,...
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The City of Peoria recently announced that it is initiating a hiring freeze to help cope with what is sure to be a long and damaging recession. But, this is a “sensible” hiring freeze because it doesn’t include police, firefighters and public works employees. Bunk. To suggest that we can make do with less is to...
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Shhhh. Can you hear it? No? Well then, perhaps you can feel it. I can. It’s the sounds and feelings of hope. We, along with the rest of the world, hope that the incoming President – Barrack Obama, will be able to face all of our country’s challenges; that he can guide our...
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