Happy 5th birthday to the Mailbag, which debuted Dec. 21, 2013, with this question: "With the Peoria schools once again in the Big 12, how about some history on the Big 12 Conference?"
Quite an ominous beginning to a little feature that has expanded into deeper topics, such as "When will the Golden Corral open?"
I jest, a little. There, of course, have been meatier questions about crime, public policy, government waste and even items that have gone to the Illinois attorney general's office, such as our still-unresolved appeal to find out why a study commissioned by the city of Urbana about cracks in the Windsor Road pavement has never been released to the public.