By: Diane Benjamin The former Speaker of House in Illinois reports to a Federal prison today. Of course it’s 7.5 years in minimum security. Note no one in the State of Illinois prosecuted him. I filed a FOIA request with the City of Bloomington that would have been received by them on September 15th. Your […]
By: Diane Benjamin Alderman Mollie Ward is still waiting for a list of vacant properties, she mentioned it Monday night. One way to find out is properties with the water shut off. Bloomington got cute with my FOIA. This is a list of names with no address where water has been shut off for over […]
By: Diane Benjamin Or, Normal could have a really lousy FOIA retrieval system. Or, Normal doesn’t keep good records. Or, Normal is hiding information. Or, Normal just does things this way because that’s the way they’ve been done for decades – it’s a secret. Start with my FOIA pertaining to Normal doing the accounting work […]
By: Diane Benjamin We’ve all seen the empty buses We’ve all seen the inflated ridership numbers We’ve all seen them ignore pleas from people they should be serving. We’ve all seen the huge buses damaging infrastructure It’s obvious they don’t care about anything except their agenda. The agenda we see is to take as much […]
By: Diane Benjamin A reader told me at the end of April the Bloomington Public Library was running ads on a Peoria TV station. On April 30th I filed a FOIA request for the ad and what they are spending on advertising. Keep in mind the City of Bloomington spends a fortune on IT and […]
