Women’s basketball coach Kate Popevic-Goss suspended; No confidence for President Standifird; still no name for Civic Center
Straight Talk: Disappointing decisions by execs at BU
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Straight Talk: Silence only stirs up stigma of suicide
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Journal Star is in the mail? That has to be devastating to readers. Wish we all could be like Ed Parker
Straight Talk: COVID funding folly is ‘curing violence’?
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It makes no sense. The health department has no experience or credentials to “cure violence.” Yet, it was handed $400,000 by the City Council with a pat on the back and the battle call, “go fight crime.”
Straight Talk: Kayaks? Get serious about our Riverfront
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Another $15-$26 million going to developing Peoria’s shore. Let’s begin with some gorgeous landscaping and benches to enjoy the riverboat traffic
Straight Talk: Sixty-year reunion rekindles memory of a lifetime
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The noon get together could not have been scripted better by Hollywood. Zack and Merl shook hands while smiling eyeball to eyeball. They sat down and talked and talked as family members admired the budding friendship.
Straight Talk: Why so much deception in all these hospital ‘deals’?
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For some reason, Unity Point Health officials didn’t call it acquiring Methodist, Proctor and Pekin hospitals a sale, but a “strategic affiliation,” which it wasn’t and isn’t.
Straight Talk: Why no naming rights for Civic Center?
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The heated confrontation between Peoria Rivermen fans and the Civic Center Authority Board is over — for now. A short-term, one-year lease agreement with a second year option was reached and all God’s children said “Amen.” Not everyone praised Ric…
Straight Talk: Auditor lost election, but winning in courts
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By a whopping 70%, Peoria County voters said the office of County Auditor should be closed. Members of the County Board had overwhelmingly stated there was no need for an elected auditor. Auditor Jessica Thomas was expected to accept the…
Straight Talk: Rivermen, Bradley basketball on thin ice at Civic Center
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The future of professional hockey in Peoria is being threatened by ASM Global, the people who manage the Peoria Civic Center. The ice-making equipment in the arena is 41 years old and needs to be replaced. That inevitable development was…
Straight Talk: Too good to be true? Disappointing development from developer KDB Group
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Kim Blickenstaff rode into Peoria like the proverbial knight on a white horse with wads of money and a load of ideas for improving life in central Illinois. The highly successful businessman, who made a fortune in the healthcare industry,…