In preparing for the upcoming basketball season, two of Illinois’ rising stars head east to eat some duck, inhale some smoke, and yeah, shoot some hoops as well.
Posts by Rob McColley:
Bury the funeral procession
When we honor our deceased, why do we find it necessary to inconvenience others? Rob intimates that it’s part of a larger problem in our society.
Urbana Alderman Dennis Roberts proposes reduced liquor license fees
Roberts said Urbana’s Class A liquor-license fee to operate a bar is $4,462 annually and, unless the council acts to change it, will increase 4.5 percent to $4,663 on July 1. In comparison, Champaign’s current …
No new booze tax
A new tax on liquor is looming large, and Rob McColley doesn’t like it one bit.
Free Oscar Meyer Wieners
That is what I’d truly like to be. Follow this link, give the corporate world (Kraft, in this case) all your information, and you could have some nitrite-laden tubular offal in your mailbox in 4 …
Loud fast rules
Don’t love Harley-Davidson? Why not just burn a flag, kill a soldier, and spit on the Constitution? Rob reports on the worst of the worst of the worst of noise pollution.
No Ivy for SCOTUS
It’s time for President Obama to pick a new Supreme Court Justice. Rob makes a few suggestions, but one in particular: no Ivy. No way. No how.
Arrelious Benn earns preseason All-America honors
From the AP: Benn Earns Preseason All-America Honors Williams and Hoomanawanui Land on Honorable Mention Lists CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – University of Illinois gridders, Arrelious Benn, Juice Williams and Michael Hoomanawanui have been named to NationalChamps.net’s …
Urbana raises liquor license fees
That’s right. Not content to have the highest fees around, Urbana is hell bent on stifling any downtown Renaissance. http://news-gazette.com/news/local/2009/05/05/urbana_liquor_license_fees_will_increase_in_july This is great news for Champaign.
Jay Bennett sues Jeff Tweedy
I have been enamored by many members of Wilco, as musicians and people. But most of them have been fired by the much-worshiped hack whose”poetry” has yet to delve into a second syllable. Read more …