Local lunacy you pay for

By:  Diane Benjamin Government wastes your money!  Proof:  An unused fire station and unused water tower.  $$$$ – MILLIONS – $$$$ poof, up in smoke and nobody in jail. Those are just huge examples of utter incompetence.  Many many more exist on a small scale.  Just this week Council and staff time were needed for […]

It’s a SPENDING problem

By:  Diane Benjamin I found this chart in the 2012 Bloomington Budget:  http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2018  Page 114 Since the City of Bloomington can’t print money, expenditures should have been close to revenue.  I do remember they got into trouble by dipping into reserves though.  I wonder where that “recession” that caused the City to slash jobs was?  […]

Isn’t Communism Great!

By:  Diane Benjamin First the good news:  Pantagraph writer Steve Vogel has temporarily learned that telling elected officials to ignore citizens (check your email instead)  speaking during Public Comment was foolish.  He also learned that using 50+ people to describe how many attended Alderman Lower’s Town Hall was deceptive on the bird-cage liners part, so […]

Jeers to the Pantagraph

By:  Diane Benjamin Comments to Pantagraph stories concerning Gabriella Calhoun, Sgt Shumaker, and Tari Renner’s remarks have been disabled. Jeers Pantagraph – Did Renner demand you suspend comments?  I saw some yesterday obviously made by “people in the know”.  I guess only “approved” talking points are allowed. Jeers Pantagraph – For Jeering the Chateau and […]

Fly on the Wall: Steve Vogel

Here is Steve Vogel’s reason to vote for Pat Quinn in November: Quinn is going to jail.  Paul Vallas (Lieutenant Governor candidate) is going to be a great governor!  After all, the Chicago public schools are great now since Vallas fixed everything. Brilliant!  Anybody still funding the Pantagraph propaganda machine?  Why? . . .  

Pantagraph bias rears it’s ugly head again

by:  Diane Benjamin Steve Vogel was heavily involved in raising money for the original Vietnam-Korea monument in Miller Park.  He was on WJBC at the time and he used the power of the media to raise a lot of money – enough to pay for the monument.  He did a wonderful job making sure our […]