By: Diane Benjamin See this story from yesterday: Why City Councils Don’t Listen After writing more than 4000 stories, I had forgotten I wrote about the Julie Crowe case when she won the lawsuit: Julie Crowe Defeats the City of Bloomington That story contains a link to the original Council vote denying her the Vehicle-For-Hire […]
By: Diane Benjamin Tonight Bloomington is holding a public hearing on the budget for the year that starts May 1st. All you need to know is Bloomington is planning on hiring 4 more employees which will make the pension liability even higher and, to balance the budget, they are robbing the Enterprise Funds: I guess […]
Will Todd Greenburg appeal this one? Judy Stearns was the ONLY alderman to vote with Julie Crowe. http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2464 All of these alderman voted AGAINST free market capitalism: Mwilambwe, Schmidt, McDade, Anderson, Fazzini, Sage, Fruin and Purcell. This is also a BIG defeat for David Hales because he initially ruled against her at a […]
Here is the update on the case from Jacob Huebert, Associate Counsel of the Liberty Justice Center. Julie Crowe is an experienced vehicle-for-hire driver in the City of Bloomington, and in 2011 she decided to start her own vehicle service that would cater especially to young women who need a ride home after a night […]
The Bloomington City Council hasn’t learned any lessons. This week the City Council rushed through a summer project for juvenile offenders with no measurements to judge success or failure. Next August or September, a kid or two will appear before the Council and rave about how the program changed his life, then a permanent program […]
