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Sacred Places. Shows how churches have been saved elsewhere. The National Trust for Historic Preservation. Very interesting site. Continue reading
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Here's the bureaucracy in action: HISTORIC...
Here's the bureaucracy in action: HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MINUTES August 20, 2003 **REVISED** CALL TO ORDER Vice-Chairperson Vega called the meeting to order at approximately 8:40 a.m. Roll call confirmed a quorum was present. PRESENT: Commissioners Cazzato, Masick, Neumiller, Schmidt, Smith and Vega ABSENT: Commissioner McDonald STAFF PRESENT: Kim Smith,... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at Historic Pres. (Not!)
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Historic Preservation in Peoria (Not!)
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Read the book. This is how the new Jim Crow works. There are other ways to police than deploy military style tactics and target minorities and the poor.
The New Jim Crow and the PHA: Now it all makes sense
PEORIA -- Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press) is so insightful about race relations in this city, state and nation that it should be must reading for everyone who cares about civil rights. First read the book, a masterful ac...
Have you ever looked into how much of your tax dollars go for war? For fossil fuel subsidies? For weapons?
July 6 austerity protest
PEORIA -- Fed up with GOP austerity politics? Here's a new way to protest, from the Peoria Peace group: Here's the published rationale:
This is propaganda, not news.
Will it replace live broadcasts of the board meetings?
Peoria School District 150: an overview
PEORIA -- Below is an edited version of the brief talk I gave to the Greater Peoria League of Women Voters meeting on Jan. 15. PEORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT 150 The Facts While District 150 has lost 13 percent of its students in the last decade, its expenses have almost doubled. Enrollment – 1999: ...
She talked with Equip and was told they would not take her case. They said to call Prairie States.
If you know someone at either place, tell them to read the blog post above. Perhaps she did not explain her situation fully.
Disabled woman fired on anniversary of Disabilities Act
PEORIA -- On the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Vickie Elston, a disabled American, was fired from her job of three decades with the Community Workshop and Training Center, a Peoria agency whose mission is to help the disabled. Vickie, 57, was fired for allegedly maki...
Thanks for your comment. Vickie cannot attend a workshop in another county because she has no transportation. She lives in Peoria in housing for the disabled, but not housing controlled by the CWTC.
Disabled woman fired on anniversary of Disabilities Act
PEORIA -- On the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Vickie Elston, a disabled American, was fired from her job of three decades with the Community Workshop and Training Center, a Peoria agency whose mission is to help the disabled. Vickie, 57, was fired for allegedly maki...
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She didnt have an off day -- she just didnt have a focused, organized
speech. A couple of people in the audience that I spoke with after the
speech ageed with me.
We all like AD, and she had some interesting things to say as my
comments show. But believe me, it was not organized.
She told the audience that she forgot to set her timer, and she also
asked someone, from the podium, what the title of her speech was.
Weird.
But dont take my word for it. Heres Peoria Journal Star critic Gary
Panettas take on the talk.
http://blogs.pjstar.com/panetta/2010/03/10/reflecting-on-angela-davis/
Angela Davis: provocative and boring
PEORIA -- How is it possible that leftist radical and "Marxist feminist" Angela Davis could be both provocative and boring in the same 90 minute presentation? Davis spoke at Bradley University to a standing-room-only crowd on March 9. Her speech was unfocused, likely not even prepared in advanc...
I dunno why they picked this location. Maybe they thought they would
be welcomed there.
But the most interesting thing about this is the attempt of the police
to get rid of them. Didnt work.
Animal rights demonstrators defeat Peoria police
PEORIA -- When Peoria police tried to shut down a recent anti-meat - "Meatout" demonstration on a public sidewalk in front of One World Cafe, they got a lesson in free speech and freedom of assembly. And the restaurant got a lesson in customer relations. It had better apologize. Here's the st...
I didnt say they were corrupt. I said that when actions make no
apparent sense we should look for other motives. To me cutting down
those trees made no sense.
There are other things they could have done that likely would have been
cheaper and better. (Prune the trees, bury the electric lines, install
screens over intakes if thats a concern, those the trees have been
there for years.) So why do it? Kickbacks? Stupid? Hate trees? I dunno.
Did you ever even see those trees? I saw them every time I left my
residence. Now theyre gone. The evergreen trees they had planted last
year or the year before around other parts of the site are small,
boring, and some of them are dead.
The trees that were cut down were all grand trees, including huge
irreplaceable trees that flower every spring. They provided shade for
the property. Now theyre gone. Just a little bit of beauty wiped out.
And for what reason?
A tale of two cities
PEORIA -- Lets do an amusing comparison: Peoria, IL and Charleston, South Carolina. Population: the same. History: both have interesting histories. Charleston has a lovely history museum, one of the first of its kind in the US. Peoria‘s museum? It’s a work in progress. Protection of nat...
Hummm -- guess you spent more time than I did looking up the
ordinances.
I am on vacation and just left Charleston where a licensed tour guide
yesterday told our group that trees are not cut down. I also checked
and found an ordinance in effect. Not sure what you mean about
proposed ordinance. No time to research it tonight.
Do you defend the right of utility cos to cut down anything they want?
What does that prove other than greed rules all? What about my ideas,
to bury their lines?
I saw nothing about invasive species in the Charleston ordinance I
saw on line. There are plenty of what are apparently non native trees
in Charleston. Maybe theyre not considered invasive but beautiful.
Locusts are not invasive either, and are beautiful for about 10 days
each spring. Not any more. I dread returning to Peoria and seeing those
trees gone.
Maybe Ill move to Charleston, or another place where trees and
historic buildings are valued instead of destroyed.
A tale of two cities
PEORIA -- Lets do an amusing comparison: Peoria, IL and Charleston, South Carolina. Population: the same. History: both have interesting histories. Charleston has a lovely history museum, one of the first of its kind in the US. Peoria‘s museum? It’s a work in progress. Protection of nat...
An arborist? Guilty, I guess. No facts? Not guilty. The facts are on
my side.
Tree cutting in Peoria continues
PEORIA -- On Tuesday, Feb. 23, without any warning to neighbors, Illinois American Water Co. sent in a crew to quickly cut down seven beautiful, mature trees on its property at the intersection of Crestwood and Grand. It was over in a flash -- and the flowering trees that brightened this inter...
Ah, the non-native excuse to cut trees.
Anything to cut them down, right? Makes you feel like a tough guy
controlling nature? Or some type of ecological farmer?
More enlightened cities protect all trees, not just so-called native
trees (native to what period in the history of the planet?).
In Charleston SC, no tree can be arbitrarily cut down without
undergoing all kinds of scrutiny from local officials. Theres no
native test. That city knows the value of the tree canopy.
I have 2 locust trees in my back yard. Woodpeckers and other birds love
them, and apparently find insects to eat there.
Tree cutting in Peoria continues
PEORIA -- On Tuesday, Feb. 23, without any warning to neighbors, Illinois American Water Co. sent in a crew to quickly cut down seven beautiful, mature trees on its property at the intersection of Crestwood and Grand. It was over in a flash -- and the flowering trees that brightened this inter...
Any time something weird happens that makes no sense, I look for other
explanations. I didnt say it happened, just that its one
explanation. There are others, of course, including stupid.
Cutting these trees makes no sense. The water co could have buried the
electric lines on its property, built a shed over the generator or
taken other action to protect the site from any falling limbs or
flowers from the trees. (Screen wire for example.) Why didnt it do
that? Who profited from this job? This is Illinois, isnt it!
Tree cutting in Peoria continues
PEORIA -- On Tuesday, Feb. 23, without any warning to neighbors, Illinois American Water Co. sent in a crew to quickly cut down seven beautiful, mature trees on its property at the intersection of Crestwood and Grand. It was over in a flash -- and the flowering trees that brightened this inter...
Oh please. The tree endanger property? Then lets cut them all down,
right?
May someone open a pig farm next to your property, and well see how
long your libertarian views last!
Trees are as important to our community as fresh air. In fact they
contribute to it.
They benefit everyone, and this benefit overrides the its my property
Ill do what I want to argument.
Tree cutting in Peoria continues
PEORIA -- On Tuesday, Feb. 23, without any warning to neighbors, Illinois American Water Co. sent in a crew to quickly cut down seven beautiful, mature trees on its property at the intersection of Crestwood and Grand. It was over in a flash -- and the flowering trees that brightened this inter...
Ok, lets cut down all the trees in the city and see how that will
look. Power bills will go up, birds and other wildlife will be even
more imperiled, oxygen less abundant.
Just because a tree is on private property doesnt mean it lacks
implications for the entire city. Other cities protect trees because
they benefit everyone.
As for my being a responsible person, thats an interesting ad hominem
(personal) attack, and has nothing to do with the arguments and issues.
I could say you must be a selfish SOB but I wont.
As for me Ive worked from age 16, have an MA plus from a major
university, have been a college teacher, a kindergarten teacher, a
journalist, publisher of a literary magazine, and am a wife, mother of
two successful adults and grandmother of four, all of whom are good
students, never in trouble. What about you?
E.H.
Tree cutting in Peoria continues
PEORIA -- On Tuesday, Feb. 23, without any warning to neighbors, Illinois American Water Co. sent in a crew to quickly cut down seven beautiful, mature trees on its property at the intersection of Crestwood and Grand. It was over in a flash -- and the flowering trees that brightened this inter...
Hummm -- you are correct. Now the link works. Hirner is listed under
Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group, p. 64.
League candidate meeting reveals the issues
PEORIA -- Candidates in three of the most interesting local races for the Feb. 2 primary election attended the League of Women Voters forum on Dec. 12, and as always, the event revealed a lot about the issues and candidates. I was out of town and unable to attend, but I have a recording of the...
Thanks for your comment.
I have a recording of the meeting. She clearly stated that she is not a
lobbyist.
The link you sent does not work. Resend it, and I will check it.
League candidate meeting reveals the issues
PEORIA -- Candidates in three of the most interesting local races for the Feb. 2 primary election attended the League of Women Voters forum on Dec. 12, and as always, the event revealed a lot about the issues and candidates. I was out of town and unable to attend, but I have a recording of the...
Karrie -- I agree with you that we need to promote peace. I dont think
we disagree. We both want a better world, and war keeps tearing it
apart, wasting resources that should go to feed, house and heal people
instead of for weapons and killing.
Protest war
Update Dec. 3, 2009: Who would have believed we have to do this under Obama? "No You Can't" Rally Dec 12 at White HouseOver 100 leading peace activist groups have announced an ‘Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally’ at the White House on December 12, from 11 am to 4 pm to reject President Obama’s m...
Karrie -- Peace is, or should be, the default. So we have anti-war
rallies when war is threatened!
Elaine H.
Protest war
Update Dec. 3, 2009: Who would have believed we have to do this under Obama? "No You Can't" Rally Dec 12 at White HouseOver 100 leading peace activist groups have announced an ‘Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally’ at the White House on December 12, from 11 am to 4 pm to reject President Obama’s m...
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