Does Systemic Racism Play in Peoria Part 3
No discussion of systemic racism would be complete without including the experiences of non-white people of color. We must also analyze how migration has...
Does Systemic Racism Play in Peoria Part 2
Police are almost synonymous with oppression against people of color. Modern policing finds its origins in the slave patrols of the antebellum South after...
The Peoria Horseshoe: The Poverty of Peoria
There is a deep poverty in Peoria. Not just materially or socially, but ideologically. Peoria’s ideas are themselves impoverished: all Peoria seems to get...
The Peculiarities of Cumulatives
At-Large seats privilege the majority.
“When each resident is able to cast one vote for each of five seats, across the city, cohesive...
Last Minute Responses on Peter Kobak
At the tail end of the 2019 local elections for At-Large Peoria City Council seats, a mailer promising to expose the “liberals” running in...
The Inadequacies of Growth
If
you attend one of the many Candidate forums for Peoria’s At-Large
City Council seats, you’ll likely hear the dull piano that
accompanies John “Growth™”
Kelly as he...
