See this story: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/unemployment-persists-in-illinois-metro-areas-during-august/ The Bloomington area gained 100 jobs in August. Springfield, Peoria, and Decatur all lost jobs. From August of 2023 to August of 2024 this area gained 600 jobs. The article has other interesting stats. It also has a path to prosperity that won’t happen. Illinois anti-business policies will continue because the […]
By: Diane Benjamin We know the Secretary of State’s office has screwed up Automatic Voter Registration. Non-citizens have been registered, some voted. Incarcerated individuals were mistakenly removed from the voter roles – after they served their time. Two days ago we found out some people who applied for a Real-ID were taken off the voter […]
By: Diane Benjamin Remember the property Bloomington bought on N Main in 2016 for $1.4 million? Tari’s buddies, Kirk Holdings, leveled the old Mennonite Hospital buildings. Then the City bought it so nobody else could. It has been sitting vacant and generating no tax revenue ever since. Tuesday night the City is teaming up with […]
Jim Karch just informed me the letter was sent to around 1200 businesses. Doing rough calculations, this cost the Water Department about the same amount they lost when the City diverted $2.4 million to the Coliseum from their Fund – and then wrote off the loss. https://blnnews.com/2015/12/13/2400000-disappears-at-coliseum/ On the bright side, this money stayed in […]
By: Diane Benjamin Governor Rauner ran on a platform of making Illinois business friendly. He has failed because the Democrat super-majority in Springfield doesn’t care if companies move across the border to save millions of dollars. They don’t care if Caterpillar leaves the state along with other companies who can’t compete in this high-tax high-regulation […]
