By: Diane Benjamin See this story from earlier today is you missed it: https://blnnews.com/2021/08/19/mia-common-sense-in-normal/ Below is the text of an email from August 2020 to the Normal Town Council, the author was purposely redacted. This email had been sent to Town Planner Mercy Davidson in November of 2019. Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:54 […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you didn’t attend the showing of “Scramble the SeaWolves” last night at the Normal Theater, you missed a great movie. It told the story of Navy helicopter crews who provided defense in Vietnam. Didn’t know the Navy had helicopters? Until this movie most people didn’t. The SeaWolves formed out of need […]
By: Diane Benjamin The local minority that ride bikes expect their right to ride to be superior to your right to drive. They have the Federal and State government on their side because cars are evil. (See the global warming scam) Last night I was driving East on Front from downtown Bloomington. It was almost […]
I hear bikes were banned from Miller Park on the 4th of July. Let me see if I heard this right while buzzing around: Bikes are allowed on busy roads with thousands of pounds of cars right next to them, but they couldn’t be trusted in a park? Isn’t the speed limit really LOW in […]
By: Diane Benjamin I switched to only writing local stories a long time ago. Maybe I throw in something Illinois or national when necessary, but this site is mostly for local issues. Evidently bicycles aren’t just a local issue. Just this morning “Hey Bikers” has reads from all of the states below, many with reads […]
by: Diane Benjamin Last week I posted a story with a picture of an intersection in Normal. It’s really hard to tell from the picture what Normal is doing, so today I drove out and took video. Mayor Koos will be happy to learn I drove my big pickup truck and I even drove through […]
by: Diane Benjamin The McLean County Regional Planning Commission conducted a poll a few months ago. Their results showed 72% wanted bike lanes! Of course, most of the people who took their poll were members of BLONO because they were the only ones who knew it. http://blnnews.com/2012/10/25/blnnews-verses-mcrpc-poll/ Normal is huge into biking, maybe their mayor […]
