Sorensen payroll FOIA

Read carefully – this shows the total for 5 years!  Not per year.   By:  Diane Benjamin As usual, the County website has less information than any other government website.  Citizens would be appalled at vendors and the amount of County tax dollars they receive – if they knew.  Unfortunately, there is no yearly summary […]

Rejoice! Headed toward #1

By:  Diane Benjamin When I moved to this area in 1980 if Democrats wanted to get elected they had to run as Republicans.  Nobody here then would ever elect a Democrat.  Some of those “pretend” Republicans are still in office. Today it’s hard to tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.  Big time Republican Matt […]

Never enough of your money

By:  Diane Benjamin McLean County Board Chairman Matt Sorenson appeared on WGLT yesterday.  Either Bloomington passes 1/4 Sales Tax increase for mental health or the County will raise property taxes.  http://wglt.org/wireready/news/2015/08/01262_sorenson_SI_MH_spot_web_180041.shtml Instead of jumping at raising taxes, how about cutting administrators Matt? Below is a list of every Taxing Body on the State Comptrollers website […]

East-side bypass: Status

By:  Diane Benjamin Everybody in the County is represented by 2 Board members.  These two are mine: Jim Soeldner, District 2 Matt Sorensen, District 2 The possible construction of an east-side bypass would never had happened if one of these guys wasn’t fully behind it.  The other voted to take the 10 million dollars to […]