Normal: Agenda 10-5-20

By: Diane Benjamin https://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3744 If you missed the BILLS story, see it here: https://blnnews.com/2020/10/02/normal-10-5-2020/ Firefighters are getting a new contract: Normal will try to collect from the feds, the fed money printing press is ramping up again: This one is more than ridiculous: Quick review: The “professional staff” brought this to the Council many months […]

Why downtown is all the matters

By:  Diane Benjamin The short answer is because of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission. The MCRPC is an organization most citizens know nothing about.  In 2013 a new executive director was hired:  Vasudha P. Gadhiraju.  The formerly conservative Commission took a hard turn to the left immediately after.  According to the MCRPC website, 2013 is […]

Bike plan WANTS your input

The below was sent to me by Scott Fowler of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission.  I agreed to post the information.  I asked Scott how many cyclists were in the area, this is his response: We currently don’t have a number for how many cyclists live in Bloomington-Normal.  We are hoping that this effort will […]