A Dark And Quiet Room

Citizen Journalism from your neighbors

• Abortion and politicsSeptember 5, 2008
  Okay, let’s start at the beginning. This is unacceptable, in precisely the same way that this was unacceptable. 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 perhaps some weren’t. But we all agree that [...]
  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
• The Weight of History Grows Heavy.September 5, 2008
  1906 - Lost World Series 1907 - Won World Series 1908 - Won World Series 1910 - Lost World Series 1918 - Lost World Series 1929 - Lost World Series 1932 - Lost World Series 1935 - Lost World Series 1938 - Lost World Series 1945 - Lost World Series 1984 - Lost National League Championship Series 1989 - Lost National League Divisional Series 1998 - Lost [...]
  PeoriaIllinoisan
• Iron Man (Gabrielle)September 5, 2008
  This summer was a very good summer for movies. There were several movies that came out that I was very excited about. And Iron Man was the movie that started the movie season off. I really liked Iron Man and had resigned myself to waiting impatiently until it came out on DVD, but Erie is [...]
  sharppointythings
• Local: City finds a new way to screw up West Bluff traffic patternsSeptember 5, 2008
  (press release) Road construction is scheduled to start on Monday, September 8, 2008, at the intersection of Moss Avenue and University Street/MacArthur Highway in the City of Peoria. Driving lanes will be reduced to one lane in each direction while work is being performed for the reinstallation of traffic signals and concrete replacement work at [...]
  Billy Dennis