Bloomington: Your turn to fund a Drag Show

By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington is allowing yet another PrideFest downtown. Pride month is over, calendars too difficult to navigate? At least Normal had the sense to hold their drag show indoors and after 10:00 pm: https://blnnews.com/2023/06/19/free-drag-show/ Bloomington’s is outside at 7:30 pm and billed as “family friendly”. Why do the performers need […]

Bloomington, still planning on how to give away money

By: Diane Benjamin Alderman Julie Emig was absent, Dee Urban was sick but attended remotely. The only item pulled from the Consent Agenda was a Liquor License so Grant Walsh could ask if a video gaming license was included. It isn’t because Bloomington limits the number of licenses. FYI: Limiting licenses only enriches those who […]

What’s Bloomington doing Monday?

by:  Diane Benjamin http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=22287 Reports to me from people who attended last year:  Don’t take your kids: The documentation doesn’t name the Parkview Inn, but this ordinance is so they can get back in the gaming business.  It’s generic in case another establishment with video gaming now is destroyed and rebuilt: Tari Renner and Jenn […]