A Dark And Quiet Room

Citizen Journalism from your neighbors

• Local: Neighborhood leadership awards banquet set, nominees soughtSeptember 5, 2008
  (press release) Date: September 5, 2008 Released by: Alma Brown, Communications Manager, 494-8554 Subject: [...]
  Billy Dennis
• Local: Fair housing seminar addressed landlord, tenant rights and responsibilitiesSeptember 5, 2008
  (press release) FREE FAIR HOUSING SEMINAR The third annual Free Housing Seminar will be held on September 25, 2008 from 3:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Main Branch of the Peoria Public Library, 107 N.E. Monroe Street. Homeowners, homebuyers, tenants, landlords and property management professionals should attend this event. No advance [...]
  Billy Dennis
• Politics: Schock toots his own horn (UPDATED)September 5, 2008
  Anyone see Aaron Schock’s very brief speech to the Republican National Convention? I did.
  Billy Dennis
• Abortion and politicsSeptember 5, 2008
  Okay, let’s start at the beginning. This is unacceptable, in precisely the same way that this was unacceptable. (Both links are probably NSFW for violence, BTW.) We look at lynchings as evidence of wickedness in our country, especially because the lynch mobs should have been forcibly stopped by the government. And, perhaps some were and [...]
  Seth Ben-Ezra
• Politics: Reagan?s ag secretary to stump for CallahanSeptember 5, 2008
  (press release) Former GOP Ag Secretary headlines Callahan fundraiser Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture John Block, a Republican who served under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986, will headline a slate of guests at the Callahan Ag Coalition hog roast Monday, Sept. 8 from 6-8 p.m. at the Meils Brothers Farm in rural Varna. [...]
  Billy Dennis