By: Diane Benjamin https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23757 Since the City now has Jeff Jurgens as an employee, we will see if this disappears in the future: (he was their employee) Community Relations? did you get an invite to the feast: A future artist fee? This really needs a new name: Pantagraph scores again: This is just a members […]
By: Diane Benjamin Source: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23753 Looks impressive, RIGHT? Not so fast, see below. The artist fees are blank again! (see previous stories) https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23691 Obviously this show lost money just like most of the others. See the event as promoted here: https://www.artsblooming.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10963/710?curdate=12-13-2019&curm=12&cury=2019
By: Diane Benjamin On the November ballot will be an amendment to the Illinois Constitution to change income tax from a flat rate to a progressive tax. The State will quickly run out of high income people to tax – the middle class makes up the majority of taxpayers so that tax will hit them […]
In case you didn’t know: Get a preview here: https://bloomingtonil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1054&Inline=True
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 Normal wants to build a far east fire station. Remember when the citizens just wanted it moved across the street? Of course Normal didn’t listen. https://blnnews.com/2019/01/23/normal-citizens-dont-fit-the-plan/ Bloomington wants a far north-east side fire station. Most people don’t know where Bloomington stops and Normal begins, but the two cities aren’t capable of working […]
By: Diane Benjamin On the front page of the City of Bloomington website is a link to the Downtown Bloomington website: cityblm.org The first time I clicked on it I got an error message, the second time the website came up: http://downtownbloomington.org/ Next I clicked on Explore Downtown – then Shop. The site has directory […]
