By: Diane Benjamin The Town of Normal held a 9 1/2 hour budget meeting yesterday. What it amounted to was a conga line of department heads who already had their budgets done. If you thought citizen comments would shape the budget, you are wrong. The budget was obviously already done, the citizen summit comments might […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you believe Common Sense is absent in society today, see more Thomas Sewell quotes here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2056.Thomas_Sowell?page=1 Who is paying a price for 1 Uptown Circle? The building was only constructed because the Town of Normal agreed to rent an entire floor at over market rates. The first floor is STILL vacant. […]
By: Diane Benjamin When Chemberly Cummings held her poorly attended Daring Diversity Summit the Town of Normal created an entire web page to it, now they are advertising for 2020: http://www.normal.org/daringdiversity The Town had numerous Facebook posts in September for the October 3rd event. The Pantagraph even did an article quoting some council members and […]
By: Diane Benjamin When government schedules ‘off” night meetings, most people never know about them until it’s too late to attend. These two you need to know about in advance. The first meeting is December 2nd. This is a joint meeting of the Bloomington and Normal Councils to discuss a sports complex. It will take place […]
