…And Now the U.S. Ranks Dead Last in Problem-Solving Tech-Skills
Another study telling us the U.S. is not keeping up with the rest of the world with skills. Is this the problem that people who have lost jobs have not learned the necessary new skills to be retrained in a new position. And if they are retrained, will there be jobs available in the city in which they currently live? Will we no longer have one job for a lifetime and what does this say about the jobs that will be available in small to medium size cities?.
How will this affect the management of small cities, when jobs keep changing. Will the job of Mayor someday be obsolete or is it already?
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yup, that about sums it up.
That is because our colleges and high schools indoctrinate instead of educate. The modern education system is creating a generation of people reliant on government.
Speaking of technology who paid for fiber to airport? The city...who gets revenue connecting point.
What a scam build it and don't reap the reward
That project was costly and cumbersome to tax payers
Not so in Peru government. We have a paid position to cover any problem. In fact, some of the Peru cheerleaders on this blog like to comment that Peru has "problem-slovers" solving complex problems in multiple positions of leadershiop. Imagine that. The cheers arise with stories of unmatched efficiency and no hill to high to climb for Peru's gifted "movers and shakers" who are currently crowding into every inch of office space at 4th & Fulton. Work stations equipped with the finest office equipment purchased from connected Peru suppliers. Offices packed full of salaried positions as well as administrative assistants for everyone. Keys to the executive shitter for the VIP bigshots who pull the strings. Gotta love the Peru way of doing business. I think it may be time to construct a West Wing to accomodate the massive egos packed into the Peru White House. We can write a check, right Mr. Treasurer?
Lois if you don't start posting more attacks on Peru I am cancelling membership. I mean really it is Perus fault if the Donald wins.
It's funny that they can afford to put a stop light on Boss Harl's crapper, but traffic gets all snarled up on Shooting Park Road due to not having stop lights. Busiest street in town and the only traffic control is at the RT 251 intersection.
Peru drivers are incapable of efficiently navigating a 4-Way stop. Yet our city fathers keep adding to the mess. The latest snarl is the goofy and unnecessary 4-Way stop in front of the school.
That stop light in front of Northview School is a prime example of traffic control overkill. Just because the superintendent went ballistic on the first day of school is no reason to jump to conclusions.
Lois you did not post my response to moron who doesn't think the safety of our children is important. Go figure
9:27 PM, April 12, 2016 - it is not a stop light. It is a 4-Way stop sigh with flashing red light. I agree it is not needed. For the few minutes a day it is useful it is not worth snarling traffic.
The answer to almost everything in town, is a new sign or a bigger sign.
We no longer take that section of Shooting Park Rd., keeps us from being annoyed by something that need not be in force 24 hours a day. Same size city for the last how many years and how many years have children been crossing with the assistance of a guard and doing so safely?
Now if you want to talk about the number of cars waiting for the school to dismiss so parents can collect their kids, that is another story. Also we have fewer children each year in our school system if one is to believe that we are having fewer births in the city. Not necessarily fewer births in the Peru hospital but fewer parents residing in this city, I will agree with you on that.
5:10 PM, April 13, 2016 - you are correct. The enrollment at Peru Public Schools is declining steadily every year. Yet the spend more and more every year. My prediction: In about five years, talk will start about closing Northview.
I see the State Democrat big wigs in Springfield have come up with another brilliant plan to redistribute our hard earned money. They want another tax - 1.5 cents per mile driven on each and every car. This harebrained plan is the idea of State Democrat Senate President John Cullerton. He got together with Madigan and the construction unions with this plan which will cost each and every person that owns a car in the State of Illinois a minimum of $450 for "road repair". Well you know what will actually happen... that money will go to a couple of connected crony construction companies in Chicagostan and we'll get maybe two guys employed putting up orange cones all of the place.
Call Andy Skoog and Sue Rezin and tell them this idiotic idea is a NON STARTER!
I find it funny that all you arm chair mayors and alderman can always find something to complain about, now you have turned your sights on a 4 way stop sign that is there to protect children and pedestrians who want to cross the street. I do enjoy just how silly you all are.
5:10 are you that clueless? The four way stop was a welcome change that was prompted by the school district to help with the traffic flow since there are twice as many kids at Northview now. Why does it matter how many people are in town? What matters is the number of kids at the school and there is far more traffic than their used to be. It had nothing to do with the kids crossing the street and they still have crossing guards. They tried to do the signs only at certain times but people were blowing right through them so the superintendent went to the city to get it changed. I was one of many who wanted the change and appreciate how responsive they were. Also people were speeding on shooting park and there are a lot more kids at the new school with the new addition.
Sorry if it is so inconvenient for you to have to push your brake peddle for 30 seconds but I think the safety of the kids and the flow of traffic should come before you. Is a stop sign an inconvenience? Since when? Also, you could not turn from west stree to shooting park and this resolved that. Shooting park road has far more traffic than it did a few years ago and there is nothing wrong with a four way stop in front of a school with over 500 kids.
They did the right thing and it solved the traffic concerns, even though it is very busy at that time of day. Is this what people really have time to complain about? A stop sign? lol
9:38 AM, April 14, 2016 - Ah... you shoulted the battle cry "It's for the Children" -
Run for the hills folks. Every time somebody says that it costs a few million dollars!
11:36 AM, April 14, 2016 - no. They should have put in actual traffic control signals. These four way stops - as they compound across Shooting Park Road - cause needless delays. The only reason the school wants it is because their parking lot exit is even with West Street now. This allows them half a chance of turning left out of the parking lot. It is a good reason... don't get me wrong... but cheaply and poorly executed. They should have put an actual traffic control signal that can adjust to the traffic patterns. Not a four way stop sign with flashing red light.
2:09 so instead of spending $500 to slow people down (that was another reason that was given) and make the new four way intersection work, they should have spent six figures on a stop light system? That is a minimum. Why would they do that? What is the big deal about a four way stop? You slow down. You stop. Then you go. What the heck?
5:42PM
Logically stop lights would facilitate better traffic movement on S.P. RD which used to have a great deal of traffic.
5:42 PM, April 14, 2016. Yes. At the same time, put signals in at Peoria Street and all the way down to Pulaski Street.
That signal has nothing to do with "slowing down traffic." If somebody said that they are lying. This had everything to do with allowing easy access to the school parking lot. Plain and simple, the teachers and helicopter mommy's thought it was to difficult to turn left.
Parents should not be allowed to pick their children up at school. We have busses for that. Use of private automobiles to transport children to and from school needs to be made illegal. It is dangerous for the children and disrupts the school routine.
7:21
Tell me why it should be illegal? And how does that disrupt the school routine? I think you are confused and dazed
It is quite dangerous to allow parents to pick up their kids. The school needs to take responsibility from door to door. Mom in her SUV parked next to a school endangers the children. Pollution from all those cars lined up will harm them. The parents have no professional driving skills or training. Many children are killed in school automobile accidents every year. It also causes physiological problems when one mom shows up in a Cadillac Escalade and another one shows up in a old Chevy pickup truck. The school has a responsibility to prevent this sort of embarrassment that will cause permanent damage.
Please get off the everyone feeling will be hurt. You are the problem that this generation of parents and kids live in. I'll bet you were a latch key kid and now a helicopter parent. Everyone gets a trophy, for participation.
The _________ of America at it best.
Thanks for ruining the next generation
Parents are not professional drivers. They should not be allowed to pick up children at school.
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