Category Archives: Opinion
WJBC Voices: ‘Cheerleading’ for Uptown
By Sally PyneI serve as a Normal Township trustee and we were asked to vote on the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) developed by the Town of Normal in order to extend the life of the Uptown Tax Incre...
May 22, 2018
WJBC Voices: We are beginning to welcome autism
By Mike Matejka As April ends, so does Autism Awareness month. There are some local signs of progress, though much still to do. On April 28, the Center for Disease Control released new numbers for aut...
Apr 30, 2018
WJBC Voices: Leadership McLean County
By Sally Pyne There are a few experiences in our lives that we can call pivotal. You know, those things that make you realize-sometimes later-that had you not done that, your life might be different. ...
Apr 23, 2018
WJBC Voices: Paying our fair share
By Sally Pyne As messed up as government can be, you'd have to agree that our form of government as about as good as it gets, and when it works-and by design it is intended to work-it works pretty wel...
Feb 28, 2018
WJBC Voices: Respect for citizen volunteers
By Mike Matejka This past few months, I've witnessed over 30 hours of McLean County Zoning Board of Appeals hearings. Two wind farms and a solar project have both taken repeated and extended hearings,...
Feb 19, 2018
WJBC Voices: Illinois’ gubernatorial paradox
By David Stanczak The qualifications of any presidential candidate are suspect if one considers the size of the ego required of anyone who thinks he or she can do that job. Even more suspect is the mo...
Feb 15, 2018
WJBC Voices: Private trash collection a dead-end
By Mike Matejka Both Bloomington and Normal are exploring if private trash collection is as an alternative to a tax-supported, municipal service. That's a dead end. It would certainly reduce taxes if ...
Feb 02, 2018
WJBC Voices: Bells Still In Tune
By David Stanczak Recently, at the Normal Theater, I watched (for the umpteenth time) "Bells of St. Mary's". I don't know whether it was because I hadn't watched it in several years or whether it was ...
Dec 12, 2017
WJBC Voices: We’ll pay one way or another – Recycle or Dump?
By: Mike MatejkaOn Tuesday, December 26, trash cans will be overflowing. There will be wrapping paper, Styrofoam packing, boxes and the other remainders of always American generous Christmas and holid...
Dec 06, 2017
WJBC Voices: Remember the Mitsubishi Motor plant in 1996?
By: Sally Pyne I'm not surprised. Any woman my age (I'll be 60 this summer) knows first-hand that there are men that commit sexual harassment & misconduct on "the regular" and get away with it for...
Dec 04, 2017
