by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: WTVP fall guys were not at fault for TV station’s downfall
Why not ask the management of the three stations to serve on the management team? Maybe consider asking one of the stations to loan an administrator to be an interim CEO for one year.
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: Christmas sings ‘support Israel’
More than 200 people raised their voices under the direction of the talented Lee Wenger with wife Denise Adams at the grand piano and son Christopher on guitar. That was almost double the audience’s size last year when we resurrected the community event.
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: COVID funding folly is ‘curing violence’?
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.”
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: Sixty-year reunion rekindles memory of a lifetime
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.
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: Why so much deception in all these hospital ‘deals’?
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.
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk: Why no naming rights for Civic Center?
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…