By: Diane Benjamin On December 8, 2025 the Bloomington City Council heard a presentation on Proactive Property Maintenance Enforcement Update: . Since I didn’t write much about this, I asked GROK AI when it happened. I remembered it, just not when. Grok gave me the answer in 10 seconds. PDF page 5: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1012/files/agenda/9377 As long […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Town of Normal plans to spend gas taxes on bike paths, Constitution Trail, and Connect Transit instead of roads. People who DRIVE on those ROADS pay the gas tax – therefore other vanity spending should only happen with that money when the roads don’t look like this: If the Town doesn’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin Original story and pic: https://blnnews.com/2019/05/15/pothole-alert/ The huge hole was not on City property, but it is in the Empire TIF district. The hole is north of McDonald’s on Empire. The pic below shows part of the TIF: The TIF was started in February of 2016. As of 4/30/18 the TIF had only […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington posted a link yesterday so citizens can track the progress of The Great Garbage Spring: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/Components/News/News/6899/ I’ve heard potholes aren’t being filled, 2 additional trucks have been rented, and it might take a month to remove all the curb junk. Scrappers and curb shoppers are removing some and […]
By: Diane Benjamin On February 20th, I filmed City employees dumping something in potholes on E Oakland and not tamping it down. See the video in this story: https://blnnews.com/2018/02/20/pothole-fail/ On March 2nd I filmed the same area looks – a mere 10 days later. Obviously a pothole fail. Don’t forget: The Bloomington City Council wants you […]
By: Diane Benjamin I was in town this morning dodging potholes because errands made me cross Veterans Parkway. I try to never do that! Before any of my critics comment, I wasn’t driving when I shot this video – I was PARKED. This is a City of Bloomington crew working on East Oakland Avenue. The guy […]
By: Diane Benjamin The new City website isn’t fine. Last week the OLD website was back: https://blnnews.com/2017/05/26/not-up-in-smoke-its-the-cloud/ This morning this is what I got at cityblm.org It has been like this for hours. It can still be navigated, but is this what tax dollars paid for? (I just checked again, it may now be fixed. […]
By: Diane Benjamin The east side of Bloomington has been getting some better roads this summer. East Oakland is great now and part of E Washington. Still a LONG ways to go, but how’s the rest of the City? Evidently Fox Creek road is so bad that a motorcyclist lost control in a pot holes […]
I over-heard a guy talking about being stopping by the Bloomington Police last night – suspected of drunk driving. He was on his way home from work around 11:00 pm on the west side. He was pulled over by one officer and another arrived as backup. After a license and registration check, the officer asked […]
Send more pictures! blnnews@yahoo.com There are so many holes on Oakland – east of Hershey – a movie would be needed! Here’s a sample of what has been received so far: Corner of Hershey Rd and Eastland Drive Meanwhile the McLean County Regional Planning Commission is busy diverting money to unnecessary projects: http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102887255870-66/McLean+County+Greenways+News+Sping+2013+FULL.pdf Greenways Developments McLean County […]
