By: Diane Benjamin In 2016 Bloomington bought a property at 807 North Main street: . Bloomington bought this property to control what was built there. Bloomington still owns it. Coldwell Banker couldn’t sell at after Bloomington hired them. https://blnnews.com/2020/07/02/bloomington-5-years-and-no-news/ A link in that story explains why nobody bought it. The City wanted to control what […]
By: Diane Benjamin Excerpt from a May 7, 2025 email: . WGLT hasn’t printed a story. It’s been 2 weeks since John Danenberger claimed he was going to talk to them. One of these is true: Maybe WGLT would do a story if they had this: . This document isn’t available by FOIA from the […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Committee of the Whole meeting tonight was cancelled. Good thing for this alderman because Public Comment might have been interesting. Who signs an email like this? . Maybe someone with a personality disorder of some kind? Below is part of an email he sent to multiple people. The redactions were done […]
By: Diane Benjamin Remember this? https://blnnews.com/2025/05/09/is-chief-simington-afraid-of-mayor-brady/ . Want to know what I redacted? Of course you do! Actually 2 things were redacted, I cut one off the bottom: . What do the police know that you don’t? What do I know you don’t? (Stay tuned)
By: Diane Benjamin In the two years John Danenberger has been on the Council he evidently didn’t notice procedures. He wanted to pull item K from the Consent Agenda, but instead of just stating that he preceded with an explanation and motion. That should have come after the vote on the other items, not before. […]
By” Diane Benjamin Early voting starts today. The only people who will show up to vote this early are the radicals. They want votes banked so they can get all people who might support them to vote early. They have 40 days to do it. Nothing about early voting is about giving citizens opportunities, it […]
By: Diane Benjamin I wasn’t in court yesterday because of my continuing eye issues. I’m relying on the people who were there. Danenberger did not prove his case. He plans to refile. Below is the entire court document from his days in the military. When he ran for alderman we had pieces of this document. […]
By: Diane Benjamin You can’t see any of the Public Comments because the camera never changed to show them. You can only hear them. Even though City Code prohibits holding meetings on a Federal or State holiday they did. (Chap 2 Sect 15) Maybe staff had the day off except for a rookie called in […]
By: Diane Benjamin Aldermen Jenna Kearns and Kent Lee did not attend last night’s meeting. That is important to remember for what happened. First, Monsignor Jason Gray from the Peoria Diocese asked the council to not override the wishes of the property owner who does not want to be designated as an historic landmark because […]
By: Diane Benjamin The probable Project Labor Agreement coming to the City Council is a clear example of pay-to-play politics. Labor unions throw money at aldermen to get them elected, then those alderman pass ordinances that are good for labor unions while also being destructive to taxpayers. Bloomington’s City Manager stated union representatives helped write […]
By: Diane Benjamin Last night’s Bloomington City Council meeting proved why failure of the majority of registered voters to actually vote is destructive to your wallet! The majority of people can’t wait to vote in meaningless national elections and then they ignore local elections allowing the far left to run your city. Citizens are the […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City managed to Live Stream last night’s meeting. How are shows produced in the auditorium of the BCPA without echos? The video is difficult to listen to, some speakers are worse than others. John Danenberger was AWOL. 2 people spoke at Public Comment. Former Alderman Dee Urban voiced her support for […]
