District 87: Unit 5 is meeting at 6:30 – Normal West https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Organization/1482 Tell them to unmask your kids. Then enjoy the entertainment when the chickens demand masks stay forever. Yes, there are two Americas. Unit 5 can be watched on-line. somebody needs to FILM 87!
By: Diane Benjamin IEA is Illinois Education Association. According to their website 135,000 teachers are members. Check out this link: https://ieanea.org/resources/iea-degrees-not-debt/. (Hint: They want you stuck with their college debt) IEA created a graph of COVID problems around Illinois, they want teachers to be safe. See it here: https://ieacovidtracker.org/ This isn’t current data, it’s data […]
By: Diane Benjamin h/t a reader Fieldcrest posted their mask policy on Facebook. I broke their letter into 3 parts and below each posted parts from the letter Tri-Valley wrote. Somebody (Regional Superintendent of Schools?) wrote a template and sent it to schools, the two are way to much alike. I bet you will find […]
Today I heard a story about a school District that is now mask optional because they were part of the lawsuit. There was much jubilation and many smiles yesterday as most of the kids saw their friends faces for the first time in 2 years. I received this announcement today from Tri-Valley. You won’t know […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDATE: February 7, 2022CONTACT: Connie Beard, Chairman McLean County Republicans Email: chairman@mccleancountygop.com Cell: (309) 824-9394 MCLEAN COUNTY REPUBLICANS CREATING CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE McLean County Republicans have created a Candidate Assessment and Accountability Review Committee (CAAR). The Committee is seeking public input into a questionnaire that will be provided to prospective and incumbent candidates for local office. The first round of […]
By: Diane Benjamin The big controversy at last night’s Normal Council meeting was borrowing $2.5 million over 10 years from a local bank to build the East Side Fire Station. Facts: That $2.5 million becomes $2,703,939 which means Normal is redistributing $203,939 from your pocket to Busey Bank. Kathleen Lorenz claimed this is good for […]
By: Diane Benjamin Ending the mask mandate is not about banning masks. It is about choosing to wear a mask or choosing not to. Choice If you think your double vax and boost protects you, why do you care if others haven’t gotten jabbed? If you think your mask protects you from other people, why […]
By: Diane Benjamin Town of Normal doesn’t think they have to un-pass the resolution the council passed on 1/4/2022: Resolution Authorizing Participation with National Fitness Campaign for Installation of a Fitness Court Just because the “grant” was rescinded doesn’t mean NFC is dead. The resolution needs rescinded. If it isn’t rescinded the issue isn’t dead. […]
By: Diane Benjamin Did the local school district’s leadership even blink when Judge Grischow ruled masking kids EVIL? “Statutory rights have attempted to be bypassed through the issuance of Executive Orders and Emergency Rules … This type of evil is exactly what the law was intended to constrain.” Her statement called Pritzker EVIL! We are […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) Illinois State University demands the students are masked at all times! You can’t attend a basketball game without a mask. You can however attend the Chamber of Commerce gala without a mask – in the Bone Ballroom on the campus: From the Pantagraph: Random selfie with a huge crowd of no […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) Pritzker has instructed his Attorney General to immediately appeal the judge’s ruling yesterday calling masks “evil” and making them optional. https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/judge-blocks-schools-enforcing-pritzkers-mask-vaccine-mandates-refers?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Dictators don’t go down easy/ 2) Somebody in Old Farm Lakes was tired of waiting for a snowplow, they used a snowblower to make a path. The Bloomington website shows […]
By: Diane Benjamin I had to run into town this morning, the County roads have some snow pack but not slush. Bloomington’s roads are an adventure in survival. Prospect by Schnucks is inches of slush. I was only on main roads, I can’t say any of them were “cleared”. Just to top that: Gas was […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington on-line map looks better this morning than it did last night, there was A LOT more gray yesterday: https://www.cityblm.org/services/snow-removal-status-map These pics are from yesterday, the homeowner lives on the east side. The trail is cleared, the street hasn’t been touched:
By: Diane Benjamin Remember last year when the trails in Normal were plowed before the streets? https://blnnews.com/2021/02/18/fly-on-the-wall-trail-snow-removed-before-streets/ I remember staff saying Parks and Rec had special equipment just for snow removal on the trail that can’t be used on the roads. Trust is earned, does the Town of Normal earn yours? That special equipment must […]
By: Diane Benjamin I don’t know if it’s Bloomington who has a criminal problem with their firefighters or if other departments are just better at hiding malfeasance. Number 6 was charged with domestic violence last December. The charges aren’t for beating up his wife, they are for beating up his girlfriend the wife evidently knew […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington Election Commission got their space in the Government Center downgraded when Bloomington offices moved in. Now they got pushed out so Bloomington’s Legal Department can move in. BEC (which shouldn’t exist because it duplicates the services of the County Clerk) is moving to the building next door: https://www.instantstreetview.com/@40.479618,-88.993312,178h,-2.59p,0z,wpb1CabIaO1Ad8groyQ-XQ The address […]
By: Diane Benjamin Just re-elected Normal Trustee Scott Preston has announced he wants to dump Normal for a higher office: He doesn’t live in the District now: Preston didn’t bother to tell voters last April he wasn’t planning on staying around if he wins. Worse, Preston claims to be a Republican while voting at least […]
By: Diane Benjamin Follow-up to this story: https://blnnews.com/2022/01/26/no-vote-bloomington/ I received two responses to my original FOIA request wanting a list of what departments are at the Olive Street address, luckily both gave me the same information: Human Resources, Parks & Rec, Legal, Finance, IT Now you know everything I know! Other than the “Hub” and […]
By: Diane Benjamin See this link on the Unit 5 website: https://www.unit5.org/domain/3645 Go to the bottom of that page: Recognizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in our Schools Formerly some of the links inside the recognitions didn’t work – they said request access. I FOIA’d that information, the links now work. What were they hiding? […]
By: Diane Benjamin https://mcleancountyil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/8520 The McLean County Justice Committee is meeting this afternoon. One item on the agenda caught my attention: PDF page 236: This item was placed on the agenda by Cassy Taylor, County Administrator. I emailed her yesterday morning for an explanation, no response yet. Appropriation means spending or possibly transferring the funds […]
