http://spfldbloggers.com/ A news aggregator for local Springfield Illinois blogs. en-us http://spfldbloggers.com/feed.php * Correct me if I’m seeing this wrong (and I’m sure you will), but unless there is some proof that Broadway Bank knew that this guy was kiting checks, I just don’t see how this story is a huge deal for the Giannoulias campaign other than... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36447/rss 2010-03-12 09:16:06 * The Quinn administration is considering selling off part of a big “asset” to pay off its debts… Part of the borrowing could be covered by selling off the state’s rights to a portion of a massive legal settlement with cigarette co... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36444/rss 2010-03-12 09:01:55 * 9:57 am - The Democratic Party of Illinois’ state central committee will begin meeting to decide who will replace Scott Lee Cohen on the ballot next Saturday, March 20th, according to a letter just released by Chairman Michael Madigan’s offi... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36445/rss 2010-03-12 08:58:03 This is my 902nd post at Honey & Quinine. I’m starting to feel like a real blogger. If you encountered the magazine pictured above in a pile at a garage sale, you’d probably pass it by and purchase something more interesting, say an eight-... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36446/rss 2010-03-12 08:56:36 Springfield was wrecked by multiple tornadoes. http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36443/rss 2010-03-12 07:58:31 * I overslept this morning (either I slept through my alarm or it didn’t go off), so everything is running way, way behind schedule. There will be a late version of Capitol Fax for subscribers, but for now here’s my Sun-Times column… &#... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36442/rss 2010-03-12 07:44:09 Are you using the latest technology to improve your relationship with your significant other  Did you know online counseling is now an option for couples  Springfield Moms sponsor ConnectedPairs is interested in your opinions on this new trend.  Read... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36441/rss 2010-03-12 07:27:10 Remember this guy  General… whoever, doing that song “Pants on the Ground”!  Remember when you first saw it  I do.  I was brushing my teeth, and had American Idol (which I never watch) on the bedroom T.V.  Here comes an obviously ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36440/rss 2010-03-12 07:00:22 Hard to believe that I am fast approaching my fourth month in LA; harder yet to think that I would find myself doing some acting work…and liking it! March 15th marks the 13th birthday for this website: it got its humble start in the Blackburn Coll... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36439/rss 2010-03-12 03:30:43 Speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month in Washington, D.C., found a lot of things to gripe about in connection with the Obama administration. No surprise there.But there were at least two surprises among their other targets.(T... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36438/rss 2010-03-11 23:52:09 I had this idea of doing a regular series of posts contrasting Glenn Beck's form of modern fascism (he even plays dress-up like one) with the theology of the Mormon church he belongs to. The flaw in my plan is that it would require listening to his progr... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36437/rss 2010-03-11 23:00:48 With the passing of Angelo Poffo...here's a flyer from one of the shows that was held here in Springfield. Anyone attend this show way back whenOdd thing found...before Randy Savage was with Miss Elizabeth, Savage's dame prior to that was Brenda Britton... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36436/rss 2010-03-11 22:07:14 I was recently sent a specimen from the cerebellum of a 27-year-old female patient who, during a routine funduscopic exam at her optometrist, was found to have papilledema and retinal hemorrhages. She was completely asymptomatic -- which of course suggest... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36435/rss 2010-03-11 21:23:01 I exported an HD version of the Snow Geese video. You can check it out here: http://www.daveheinzel.com/SnowGeeseHD.mov http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36433/rss 2010-03-11 20:18:44 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }I kept seeing the sky full of dancing clouds today. More than once, I wanted to gr... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36434/rss 2010-03-11 20:17:57 http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36432/rss 2010-03-11 18:57:30 Hail YES, this is Part Six. I just spelled the number differently in the title. You should have pronounced it the same. The first “x”  escaping (excaping if you’re the son of G. Herbert Walker B.) from your mind’s mouth should bee... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36431/rss 2010-03-11 18:17:56 By Jamey DunnGov. Pat Quinn is using his bully pulpit to try to get support for a tax increase that he says is needed to avoid deep cuts to education funding.Quinn addressed students and teachers at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Springfield. He also v... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36430/rss 2010-03-11 17:58:06 By Rachel WellsGreen Party candidate Rich Whitney today said that if elected governor, he would fix the state’s $13 billion budget problem by creating a new tax – a sort of sin tax on the profits of speculative trading – and by pushing a tax increas... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36429/rss 2010-03-11 17:47:16 Earlier this week, Google expanded its cloud computing empire through the acquisition of popular photo-editing site Picnik. Moments after the news was announced on both the Google Photo blog and Picnik’s blog, users of both applications were asking one ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/36428/rss 2010-03-11 17:20:00