Jim Soeldner sent this link to a 2017 Pantagraph story describing the Public Building Commission. https://www.pantagraph.com/building-blocks-pbc-marks-years-of-construction-projects Evidently they have been violating the Open Meetings Act for years. By: Diane Benjamin I bet you thought the County was building the addition to the Law and Justice Center. Remember when your sales tax was raised to fund […]
By: Diane Benjamin VenuWorks finally posted 2 hockey reports for the new league playing at the Coliseum. (Grossinger Motors Arena is too long folks) The memo states these are the top two teams in the League, a new one from here will be playing next year. I do not know why these two games were […]
By: Diane Benjamin See the previous story: https://blnnews.com/2020/01/16/what-stan-warned-about-happened/ Stan Nord warned about local property rights because he got a bill that should have been paid by owners of his property years before. The Town of Normal didn’t care that failure to collect was THEIR fault. He paid the bill in protest. In the previous story […]
By: Diane Benjamin We know the Secretary of States office registered non-citizens to vote because of a “glitch” at the DMV: https://blnnews.com/2020/01/15/sos-glitch-registered-illegals-to-vote-in-illinois/ That is not the entire story. The DMV is not allowed to ask anyone applying for a drivers license if they are a citizen! That means it is up to your local clerk […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Council meeting will be Tuesday since Monday is Martin Luther King Day. Source: https://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3531 A few choice payments: Normal needs a new company doing video. The recent problems should be strike THREE. The Mayor still has pay to attend conferences. He needs to explain how the membership benefits taxpayers. If […]
Change it to three things – see below. By: Diane Benjamin Sometimes I see local news on Facebook and just assume the local press will report it. I don’t think they reported this one: State Farm on pace to lose car-insurance crown If recent trends persist, Geico will overtake State Farm as the country’s largest […]
