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Posted by The Jim Leach Show 3 years ago.
Posted by Photos Et Cetera 3 years ago.
The colorful flowers are called Bird of Paradise.
Posted by Photos Et Cetera 3 years ago.
Here are some photos of that area I have spent almost a week in.
Posted by gotshoo? 3 years ago.
Buddy snuggled up next to GTG watching TV.
Ive been hankerin to grill out, so today I snuck out of the office a little early and bbqd some pork steaks, steamed some broccoli, and threw ready made rolls in the oven. Roommate Steve had stopped by the store...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 3 years ago.
Reach OutSet manual, 8 second hand-held exposure with flash.
Playing around with light.
Flash froze the foreground branches from a close-by tree, leaving the 8 seconds to gather in all those photons from the sky and my neighbors tree. The orange glow is f...
Posted by Springfield Rewind 3 years ago.
5th and Capitol - 1965 (Sangamon Valley Collection)
5th and Capitol - 2006 (Springfield Rewind)
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 years ago.
This is the west side of the State Archives Building at the Capitol Complex, Springfield, Illinois.With aid from the New Deal’s Public Works Administration, the building was completed in 1938 at a cost of $820,000. It is architecturally unique, having no ...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 3 years ago.
As mentioned in my last posting, Ive been neglecting This Old Blog while I try to land more writing assignments of the paying variety (not that writing for you good people isnt rewarding, it just doesnt pay my kids tuition.) I did, in fact, receive...
Posted by Blevins Blog 3 years ago.
The great and gracious Rich Miller of Capitol Fax Blog fame has graced this blog with a comment: a short but sweet comment; but Ill take it! This, to me, is the equivalent of a Catholic meeting Pope John Paul II, George W. Bush meeting Satan or a blind f...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 3 years ago.
...Better get this passed before the Barrel Head opens up and puts all the other Springfield bars out of business.State Sen. John Cullerton, D-Chicago, announced Thursday he will sponsor a bill creating a statewide indoor smoking ban.The bill would, with ...
Posted by Iggy Uncensored 3 years ago.
Actually I'm being polite here. And I'm sure many Apple users would swear to you that they aren't in fact seen this way. The fact is this recent thread just shows how pompous and arrogant many Apple customers are. Just when you think PC and internet users...
Posted by Blevins Blog 3 years ago.
George W. Bush, in a visit to Brazil in February of 2002 was shocked to find out that there were blacks in that country; Do you have blacks, too was his question.
In the four years that I have lived in Springfield, I do not recall encountering an African...
Posted by Illinois Channel 3 years ago.
based on a News Release from the Illinois Federation of Right to Life
H.R. 3 (The EMBRYONIC Stem Cell Research Funding Bill) was passed today in the US House of Representatives by a vote of 253-174 but without enough support to override a veto by Presid...
Posted by Blevins Blog 3 years ago.
Ok, I have lost all faith in being an American and our chances during the impending Canadian invasion. It turns out that John Candy, the great American hero in Canadian Bacon, was in fact a dirty, filthy, drunken, ice-hockey playing Canadian polar bear h...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 years ago.
Yet another hot-button issue for the spring session.
Though a patchwork of cities and suburbs already have banned smoking in public places, state lawmakers today introduced legislation that would prohibit smoking in all public spots in Illinois from tave...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 3 years ago.
...Eric Zorn gives three really good reasons the Illinois primary should not be moved to accommodate Barack Obamas presidential ambitions.You know, if the primary had just been moved without the open Obama justification it might have happened with only c...
For those of you not familiar with Deadspin, let me fill you in.Deadspin is without a doubt the funniest and most well-written sports blog on the eBays. Based out of New York, its editor and chief writer is author and Mattoon native Will Leitch.His entrie...
Posted by Illinois Channel 3 years ago.
from Senator Obama's office January 11, 2007
WASHINGTON President Bush today signed the Lugar-Obama proliferation and threat reduction initiative into law.
Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 years ago.
Check out Alderman Troutmans raucus news conference here. Unedited video. Must see. Chicago politics at its craziest.Tribune story:
At a raucous City Hall news conference before todays City Council meeting, Ald. Arenda Troutman asserted that she has be...
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