Tag: Pekin il

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Pekin didn’t need a cannabis task force

By:  Diane Benjamin Source: https://www.pjstar.com/news/20190923/pekin-city-council-approves-3-cannabis-sales-tax Excerpts: The Pekin City Council approved an ordinance imposing a 3% sales tax on cannabis sales during Monday’s meeting. The tax will be in addition to other local sales taxes collected by the city. “Collection of municipal sales taxes on the sale of cannabis would not start until September 2020,” […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Tornado history – just facts

By:  Diane Benjamin People who believe in man-made climate change love to proclaim the weather is worse now.  NOAA disagrees, and this chart only goes back to 1954. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/extreme-events/us-tornado-climatology/trends Want to know the history before 1954?  Pekin Il was destroyed in March of 1938.  The source is Wikipedia, not a source I usually trust, so […]