By: Diane Benjamin Wind farm developers have been targeting Logan County recently. The meeting below happened on 11/22. The video was taped from the Young Conservatives of Logan County Facebook page which has the entire video of the over 3 hour meeting. The part below happened very close to the end of the meeting. The […]
A CO2 pipeline in Mississippi did break: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/09/11/here-minute-details-2020-mississippi-co-2-pipeline-leak-rupture-denbury-gulf-coast/8015510001/ A reader emailed me that landowners in McLean County have been contacted about allowing CO2 to be stored in rock beneath their property. NONE have agreed to this scheme. Another reader told me a leak could affect the Mahomet Aquifer. By: Diane Benjamin If you haven’t you […]
This is the link to the Edgar County Watchdogs story with video from the hearing held for the Atlanta Library petition challenges: Library challenges By: Diane Benjamin Frequently we all have to wonder if laws matter. This morning they did in Logan County. Six people who had filed petitions to run for the Atlanta Library […]
By: Diane Benjamin Today I received the documents showing Bill Thomas and his wife “gifting” Union Hall to the Atlanta Library. See them here: Union Hall Gift Deed There are a couple of problems though. The documents claim the address is 114 Arch Street, the Logan County Assessor’s office has it located at 120 Arch […]
By: Diane Benjamin It wasn’t that long ago the people in government in Logan County thought Bill Thomas was doing a great job with Economic Development. The Logan County State’s Attorney refused to act even with definitive proof of criminal activity – including grant fraud that led to the Atlanta Library being ordered to repay […]
By: Diane Benjamin What does the Economic Development Council do? Here’s their website: https://www.bnbiz.org/ They have dinners and lunches, organize the One Voice trips to DC to beg for federal funds, and soak up a lot of money from both Bloomington and Normal. Last year McLean County budgeted $100,000 for the EDC. For 2018 they dropped […]
By: Diane Benjamin Logan County has more than it’s share of problems. I’ve written a few stories about the Atlanta Public Library: https://blnnews.com/2017/10/13/the-citizens-of-atlanta-saved-themselves-200000/ https://blnnews.com/2017/10/13/atlanta-library-makes-huge-oma-violation/ https://blnnews.com/2017/07/13/atlanta-more-small-town-shenanigans/ These stories barely touch the surface of the problems in not only Atlanta, but now Lincoln. All the controversy revolves around one guy: Bill Thomas. If the name sounds familiar, […]
Update: See page 3 Bertrand-Rule By: Diane Benjamin This paragraph in the minutes of the June meeting of the Atlanta Il Public Library Board: http://www.atlantapld.org/board-of-trustees/ . Bill Thomas is a Board member and the owner of the building next door to the library. He previously got the library to rent the building from him, […]
On Monday, November 21, 2016 3:42 PM, Pantagraph Letters <[email protected]> wrote: . I’m sorry but your letter has not been selected for publication. Thank you. . Karen Hansen Digital news editor The Pantagraph P: 309-820-3236 @pg_digital [email protected] . Here’s the letter: . Logan County has “Gone with the Wind”! . Logan County Zoning & County […]
McLean County is facing the same issues and being misled in the same way! This is a report from a citizen who attended. The wind company was given all the time they wanted, citizens were limited – the room was full of concerned citizens. So far the Board only sees dollars signs! Disconnected is what […]
Tonight is a zoning hearing for a new wind farm: Thursday, September 8 @ 7:30 PM at the West Lincoln Broadwell Elementary School District 92 which is located at 2695 Woodlawn Road, Lincoln, IL 62656 Wind farms can be hazardous to your health, produce very little electricity for the massive costs (subsidizes), and won’t provide […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you know anyone being approached by a Wind Farm company now – get this to them. These companies will attempt to get landowners to sign contracts even before a wind farm is approved! Make sure they DON’T sign without knowing the facts! These companies are not above saying the neighbors have […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Logan County Board had rejected plans for a Wind Farm by a company named Relight. That didn’t stop them from trying again. Relight is an Italian company, gee I wonder why they want to build here. It can’t have anything to do with Europe abandoning wind and the US handing out […]
