In a community that revolves around the insurance industry, the Bloomington City Council has directed its staff to continue developing a plan in which residents would have the option of buying insurance to cover potentially exorbitant costs of water and sewer failures on their property.… MORE
Bloomington aldermen have unanimously adopted a new type of liquor license that allows buyers of packaged beer and wine to open the packages and drink at the stores where they made the purchases.… MORE
The chief executive officer of Country Financial has announced his retirement.… MORE
The executive director of youth services organization Project Oz is retiring, 45 years after founding the non-profit.… MORE
Changes have been made to a proposed ordinance in Bloomington that would create a new liquor license classification allowing consumers to drink from packaged beer and wine at the place where they buy the alcohol.… MORE
A Unit 5 substitute teacher believes she and the district’s other subs deserve a pay raise that they have not received in almost two decades.… MORE
The memory of the Camp-Humiston Swimming Pool may be just that, a memory.… MORE
The Illinois chairman of John McCain’s two presidential campaigns — 2000 and 2008 — paid tribute to the senator during the spring legislative session in Springfield.… MORE
A new student will bounce between schools in district 90 and District 429 this year.… MORE
The Livingston County Jail is looking at expanding but it has nothing to do with bricks and mortar.… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…