Interesting things found in Normal’s financial statements

By: Diane Benjamin http://normal.org/DocumentCenter/View/17188/CAFR20-FINAL-DOC The best information is often in the disclosures added after the financial stuff that is purposely difficult for average citizens to understand. Look at PDF pages 219 and 220. Normal could have printed these in landscape mode, like they did on other pages, but that would make it too easy to […]

Are you being set up Bloomington?

by:  Diane Benjamin Why did the City of Bloomington suddenly issue a water alert?  Lake Bloomington and Evergreen Lake are suddenly 8 feet below normal?  Aren’t lakes usually lower in the summer?  Were the lakes low last summer and a notice wasn’t issued?  Nobody is watering lawns, we have a lot of snow and more […]