By: Diane Benjamin Have you noticed the media never reports on how much Connect Transit is costing taxpayers? Have you noticed you haven’t been told these bus subsidies exist across the country? The Champaign-Urbana bus system loses far more than Connect Transit. Did you know the Danville Mass Transit District attempted to dissolve itself: https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2026/01/cris-mass-transit-violated-law-on-vote-to-dissolve/ […]
By: Diane Benjamin A total of 1,609 scientists, professors and other scholars have signed on to a new declaration that argues there is no climate change crisis. https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-1600-scientists-and-other-scholars-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration/ That didn’t stop Normal City Manager Pam Reece telling WGLT Normal has been affected by Climate Change: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2023-09-22/climate-change-impacts-noticeable-in-bloomington-normal Reece claims the trees were affected by heat and […]
By: Diane Benjamin The entire meeting was a little over an hour. I suggest citizens who plan to vote watch a few meetings instead of believing campaign literature. Of course no one showed up to speak at the Public Hearing on the budget. Many of the Trustees congratulated themselves on its greatness however. Spending on […]
By: Diane Benjamin Government help frequently makes the problem worse. There is no clearer case than Connect Transit! Keep in mind the Federal Government is funding this lunacy at your expense across the country. The below was an addendum to last month’s agenda: PDF page 3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4zAZemF_qQubmxRRUsxaHZicFU/view 65% funding is the same as 2017. […]
by: Diane Benjamin Global Warming, Global Cooling, Climate change – whatever the current name is, was a hoax from the very beginning. The hoax was to redistribute wealth – YOURS. The computer models never panned at. Scientist can’t find the blob of carbon supposedly collecting in the atmosphere – they expected it over the equator. […]
One of the important unanswered questions, the former official said, is “who gets to decide what sustainability is? Or what its outcome means?” One of the major impediments, the study says, is created by America’s “basic framework of government, established by law,” which is “one of separated and dispersed authority,” in which “government agencies at […]
U.S. Government Plans to Push Americans Out of Suburbs and Move in Planned Cities Agenda 21 is an United Nations “action plan” that basically defines how citizens will live in the 21th Century. Under the guise of “eco-sustainability” and other “you-must-agree-with” buzz words, the plan ultimately reduces the freedoms and living conditions of citizens, not […]
Link to entire story: http://tinyurl.com/a8ggcuf This story concentrates on on the Bay Area of California, but much of it applies to McLean County. There isn’t much difference between the Bay Area and the McLean Country Regional Planning Commission. MCRPC haas plans on their website for Bloomington, Normal, McLean County, Unit 5, District 87, and more, […]
ECOHOME Releases Video Report on Walkable Urbanism and Climate Change Christopher Leinberger maps critical path as part of ECOHOME Vision 2020 Sustainability Summit WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) November 28, 2012 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10176942.htm ECOHOME, the leading media source of information about certified green building products and projects, released today the first in a series of video reports to […]
The latest news from CityWatch: “What do you mean the McLean County Regional Planning Commission are federal administrators?” That was the question in response to the recent discovery regarding who the McLean County Regional Planning Commission really is. So, what was the discovery, you ask? It started with an investigation some weeks back when we became […]
It might seem to some local citizens, and even to many of our local city officials and elected council members, that the focus of sustainable issues, and thus, Agenda 21 – related projects, are issues that only us here at CITYWATCH are concerned about. Such is not the case. But, unfortunately, our community and city officials […]
. . . and while they’re watching us, we’re watching them right back – this video explains a why – This is what we do. And, we could use your help. Let me explain. I am by no means a fan of Hillary Clinton (sorry), but some years back, Ms. Clinton wrote a book entitled, “It […]
Watch the Video – then listen to your local officials. Hear “Sustainability”? Locally you will!
It comes to no surprise to those of us “in the shadows“, as we have been tagged. To those of us “in the know”. Those of us who have been involved in this Main Street/Form Based Code debate with local government from the beginning have known all along something was amiss. And those of us in the know have been well […]
Tonight, at a Work Session prior to the regular Bloomington City Council Meeting, the Council will be presented with, review and determine, at the suggestion of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission, a proposed project scope for the updating of our City’s Comprehensive Plan. You may read this agenda item at the following link: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2123 . Within that Project […]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 YOUR COUNCIL AT WORK – Bloomington City Council Bloomington City Council’s Work Session on Monday night gave citizens the opportunity to hear City Manager, David Hales, update the previously approved Action Plan. Problem with that was, among others, is that there weren’t many citizens there. The video below helps a […]
BIKES AND DEMOCRACY? – Give me a Representative Government DIRECT DEMOCRACY/BLONO FACEBOOK PAGE May 21, 2012 Direct Democracy. What is it? James Madison defined it as “…a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the […]
