By: Diane Benjamin It’s been awhile since the Cheers and Jeers editorial said something really stupid, but today they struck left-wing gold. Of course the editorial doesn’t say who wrote it, I wouldn’t want my name on it either. It “CHEERS” the Bloomington City Council for deciding how to spend the non-existent $750,000 grant from […]
By: Diane Benjamin Pretty much everybody understands that Sen Bill Brady wanted to funnel money through the City of Bloomington to benefit Central Catholic. We do live in Illinois after all. Citizens may be real conservatives, politicians not so much. It looks like Brady rolled up his play mat and went home after the Council […]
By: Diane Benjamin At the November 24th City Council meeting Renner obviously felt the $750,000 State of Illinois grant via Bill Brady belonged to him. He showed a complete reversal from the previous Council meeting when Aldermen were told it could only be spent on expanding McGraw Park. This comment from City staff was included […]
By: Diane Benjamin Tonight the Council voted to NOT buy the 4 acres by McGraw Park for use by Central Catholic High School as a practice football field. Jim Fruin recused himself, the vote was unanimous. At the first meeting there was much hand-wringing about accepting $750,000 from a bankrupt state. Some aldermen stated that somebody […]
