Tag: Normal. underpass

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Springfield got the Tiger grant

By:  Diane Benjamin Normal will have to keep tossing money to their Tiger Grant  Application Service.  Just since May 2018, they have spent $348,389.08  trying to get free money:    https://blnnews.com/2018/10/15/normal-is-following-the-plan/ The only BUILD (Tiger) grant in Illinois went to Springfield for high-speed rail – see PDF page 27:   https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/policy-initiatives/327856/build-fact-sheets-121118-355pm-update.pdf The announcement was made yesterday. Where […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Normal’s short meeting again

By:  Diane Benjamin Although there are a number of items I could FOIA on Bills being paid tonight, I’m not going to. There is one item the citizens of Normal need to see: $90,045.67 was paid earlier in September   https://blnnews.com/2018/09/04/normals-fleece-tonight/ $60,728.85 in July  PDF page 24   http://www.normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3017 $88,020.70 was paid in June   https://blnnews.com/2018/06/15/normals-monday-bills/ $46,333.57 was […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Normal destroys kids

By:  Diane Benjamin The country is $18,000,000,000,000 in debt.  I hope I got enough zeros on there for TRILLIONS! No wonder Normal decided to go with the Doug Farr underpass plan instead of the cheaper overpass – they had no intention of paying for it!  Chris Koos expects the entire rest of the country to fund […]