Jeshaun Manning-Carter and his mother have filed a civil complaint claiming the Champaign police chief fired the shot that killed Kiwane Carrington on October 9, 2009.
Posts by Joel Gillespie:
Speakers in C-U: Oct. 12—18
Economic migration, Latino baseball players, future memory and much more this week.
Meet the DJ
Tim Hayden has a twice-a-month residency at Black Dog, and it’s all he can do to keep the nacho cheese off his vinyl.
Bike/Walk to School Day report from Centennial
Yesterday was International Walk to School Day (they’ve graciously opened their arms to include bicycling, as well). Mary Malloy, a German teacher at Centennial High School, led efforts to get her fellow faculty to participate in …
Speakers in C-U: Oct. 4—10
Climate change, disclosing HIV positive status, and more, fueled by actual reader suggestions!
5th and Hill neighborhood community meeting tonight
From an email from Champaign County Health Care Consumers: The 5th & Hill Neighborhood Rights Campaign is holding a special community meeting on Monday, October 4, 2010 featuring two environmental consultants that have been working …
Youth arrested in Sola assault—updated
From yesterday on the News-Gazette‘s site: URBANA – A 16-year-old Champaign youth said he was upset over being dumped by his girlfriend and having been bumped by a man whose face he slugged last week. …
Just 3,377,682 behind 50cent
Smile Politely crossed the 1,000-follower mark on Twitter this week, which isn’t bad considering our Twitter feed consists of extremely boring auto-generated article summaries. Thanks for the support. We’ll just take our inspiration from Mr. …
Bike ed video to premiere Tuesday at the Art
From Jennifer Selby at the City of Urbana: The cities of Urbana and Champaign have been working the past several months to produce a video to introduce the public to the bicycle infrastructure that is …
Need a boost?
Joel tries out an electric-assist bike as part of Champaign Cycle’s Eco-Tour, and he’s ready to flip the switch.