Five people shot in less than six hours last Friday night. One shooting on N. Michaels and one on S. Marion. More here, along with calls from commentors for everthing from mor epolice on the streets to legalizing concealed carry. Luckily, none of the shooting appear serious and it doesn't seem they are connected.
When you look at maps of C'dale crimes, most batteries are in downtown, the Crossings, and between Wall and the railroad tracks. Unlawful use of a weapon (I guess both guns and hand held) looks clustered around, the Crossings, the south side of Walnut and the north side of West Mill, while arrests for possession of a weapon by a felon tends to be pretty heavy in the southeast section of the city. Oh, and the Crossings.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Wal-mart People
Interesting way to rate towns. Based on his observations, the writer ranks Carbondale at the top of the list in Illinois.
State Spending
Gary Metro uses a very awkward gambling metaphor to describe the budget situation in Springfield.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Neighborhood Walk
I missed the "Walk the Neighborhood" with city staff last Thursday but here's a report on it from D. Gorton:
Walk the Neighborhood", a program initiated by Mike Pierceall, Development Services Director of the City of Carbondale (third from left), took its first tour of neighborhoods in the Arbor District on Thursday afternoon. The goal was to listen to the views of residents about the condition of housing in the area. Careful scrutiny of foundations, roofs, parking areas and other issues of Code Enforcement were discussed. Sandy Litecky, Arbor District President (2nd from left), Brian Swoboda, Arbor District Board member (3rd from right) along with Tom Redmond (2nd from right) and Bob Child (on right) were joined by Building and Neighborhood Services inspectors and staff including Steven Phillips (far left), Kenneth Lynon 4th from left) and David Miller (5th from left).
The group toured W. Cherry St. along with College, Hays and Beveridge in the afternoon. It was noted that there are a large number of vacant rental houses. Ironically, the neighborhood was looking better than it had in memory with most yards mown, trash out of sight, and of course the new roofs and siding that were replaced after the May 8th storm.
It was also noted that many of the Fisher properties were in poor repair, especially the roofs which are long overdue for replacement. The group was informed that the Fisher interests at Home Rental had successfully argued in court that since they had such a large number of roofs to replace, ostensibly because of the storm, that they were allowed to take longer than most repairs in the area on any particular property. However, out observation was that the Home Rental roof deterioration stood out from all others by its long time lack of maintenance.
Problem housing was pointed out to the "Walk the Neighborhood" team from City Hall, and they will return in the near future for a more careful assessment and inspection program in the area.
"Walk the Neighborhood" will take place in all of Carbondale's neighborhoods this Fall. Sandy Litecky, President of the Arbor District said that "its impressive when the city sends out busy inspectors and staff to work with us on neighborhood improvement. We're looking forward to the results".
We're hoping that the Police Department will institute a similar program to incorporate our concerns about crime in the area.
Residents of the Arbor District are encouraged to call Mike Pierceall at 549-5302 x 257 (with any questions or observations about Code Enforcement in the neighborhood. Our experience is that Mike and his staff are more than accommodating with our concerns.
Walk the Neighborhood", a program initiated by Mike Pierceall, Development Services Director of the City of Carbondale (third from left), took its first tour of neighborhoods in the Arbor District on Thursday afternoon. The goal was to listen to the views of residents about the condition of housing in the area. Careful scrutiny of foundations, roofs, parking areas and other issues of Code Enforcement were discussed. Sandy Litecky, Arbor District President (2nd from left), Brian Swoboda, Arbor District Board member (3rd from right) along with Tom Redmond (2nd from right) and Bob Child (on right) were joined by Building and Neighborhood Services inspectors and staff including Steven Phillips (far left), Kenneth Lynon 4th from left) and David Miller (5th from left).
The group toured W. Cherry St. along with College, Hays and Beveridge in the afternoon. It was noted that there are a large number of vacant rental houses. Ironically, the neighborhood was looking better than it had in memory with most yards mown, trash out of sight, and of course the new roofs and siding that were replaced after the May 8th storm.
It was also noted that many of the Fisher properties were in poor repair, especially the roofs which are long overdue for replacement. The group was informed that the Fisher interests at Home Rental had successfully argued in court that since they had such a large number of roofs to replace, ostensibly because of the storm, that they were allowed to take longer than most repairs in the area on any particular property. However, out observation was that the Home Rental roof deterioration stood out from all others by its long time lack of maintenance.
Problem housing was pointed out to the "Walk the Neighborhood" team from City Hall, and they will return in the near future for a more careful assessment and inspection program in the area.
"Walk the Neighborhood" will take place in all of Carbondale's neighborhoods this Fall. Sandy Litecky, President of the Arbor District said that "its impressive when the city sends out busy inspectors and staff to work with us on neighborhood improvement. We're looking forward to the results".
We're hoping that the Police Department will institute a similar program to incorporate our concerns about crime in the area.
Residents of the Arbor District are encouraged to call Mike Pierceall at 549-5302 x 257 (with any questions or observations about Code Enforcement in the neighborhood. Our experience is that Mike and his staff are more than accommodating with our concerns.
Friday, September 4, 2009
H1N1/Swine Flu at SIUC
First case of swine flu in the area reported on campus this morning. Hopefully, the student will be smart enough to stay home for a couple of days. If you're coughing, sneezing or running a fever, I'd really rather not have you in my class or office.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Crimestoppers
Sat in on the Arbor District meeting with Chief O'Guinn and City Manager Alan Gill and and have stuff to post about it but time is short at the moment. I did run in to a friend who works closely with Carbondale Crimstoppers today and found out how effective the program is. It appears Crimstoppers make regular cash payouts to tispsters and the cash flows out freely. Two tips in the past year garnered payouts of $800 and $500, while smaller rewards are paid out frequently, leaving the organization in need of funds. Their website is woefully out of date regarding fundaising, as there will be a "penny raffle" fund raiser at several locations throughout C'dale over the next month including the Pig Out.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
SIUC Assault
Attempted sexual assault on campus Sunday night. Not sure it means anything but it's interesting that most of the crimes reported on the C'dale police website involve robbery, while the first reported crime of the year from campus involves an attempted rape.
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