By: Diane Benjamin What these 2 charts are saying: FIVE of the area top 10 employers are government while the population isn’t growing. Since government only has money they take from the population, other employers can’t grow. School test scores aren’t stellar while schools are “educating” fewer students with a lot more employees. Remember when […]
By: Diane Benjamin See the Budget Books here: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/departments/finance/annual-budget All you need to know is: Start reading Budget Book 1 PDF page 30: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/home/showdocument?id=29341 Lots of demographic data is included. Private sector businesses wouldn’t make decisions with out of date data like what is presented. It’s hard to claim there is a housing shortage when […]
By: Diane Benjamin The County Justice Committee is meeting tomorrow. Coroner Kathy Yoder has listed 3 more suicides for August 2020. PDF page 5 https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/7730 I asked Kathy for additional information including ages, she sent the following multi-year recap. The total to date in 2020 is only 3 less than 2019 with 4 more months […]
