By: Diane Benjamin Either Normal is spending money they don’t have because of COVID or they have over-taxed everybody and have a huge stockpile of cash. Without ISU students revenues have to be down, but Normal is hiring anyway. I bet they will say: It is in the budget: DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington and Normal are the only cities doing their own garbage pickup in the area. According to the Pantagraph, Normal did their own investigation of rates. They declared NO money could be saved by privatizing garbage pickup. See the chart here: http://www.pantagraph.com/graphic-waste-collection-fees-services/pdf_a5d93a81-e7db-537c-b830-c5fafd8a34bc.html The Pantagraph must not have noticed some of those other cities […]
By: Diane Benjamin Thanks to Steve Vogel who today mentioned in his weekly column that Bloomington is in a recession. Moody’s Analytics reported that in January (and so did I), but the media has been ignoring it. Anyone who attended the Bloomington “Budget Workshop” today would have seen Bloomington is also ignoring that fact. If […]
The Democrats just sent another email – see below. Evidently the economy is really bad since they predict more people will lose jobs by the end of the year. by: Diane Benjamin Politicians obviously stretch the truth. Flat out LYING to achieve some political agenda is now all too common. The Senate is debating whether […]
