By Eric Stock BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington’s bicycle master plan has been given the green light, but a lack of green is keeping the plan from being implemented. The city council has shown its support for more designated bike lanes, shared lanes, bridges and underpasses included in the city’s multi-year master plan, but the city…… MORE
By Eric Stock BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police say the complaints that led to tickets against three Uber drivers came from other ride-for-hire competitors. Each driver faces a minimum $250 fine for not being licensed for hire. Uber drivers are still unlicensed in Bloomington as the city is working on a policy to regulate them. Assistant…… MORE
A traffic signal and left turn lanes on all approaches of Hershey Road could be on the way, as the Bloomington City Council voted to continue future discussions Monday night.… MORE
A group that provides help to local families of fallen soldiers is raising money to expand its outreach in Central Illinois.
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Letter carriers will be picking up those paper bags they dropped off this week, hoping you will fill them with food.… MORE
A local cab company owner said a sign that has caused a furor on social media will stay up for another day.… MORE
By Eric Stock BLOOMINGTON – State Sen. Bill Brady said it’s time Illinois considers reopening prisons its closed in recent years in the wake of new reports which detail deplorable conditions at a southern Illinois prison. A watchdog group reports inmates at the Vienna Correctional Center have complained of mold, rodents, broken windows and…… MORE
By Eric Stock PEORIA – State Sen. Darin LaHood, R-Dunlap, said he has proven his credentials on the immigration issue while serving in Springfield as he seeks a new gig in Washington. LaHood voted against measures to enable illegal immigrations to get a drivers license and to create a private scholarship fund for undocumented youth…… MORE
By Eric Stock BLOOMINGTON – Tickets go on sale Friday for the David Davis Mansion’s largest annual fundraiser, the Glorious Gardens Festival garden walk. “The funds we raise help support the continued maintenance on Sarah’s garden and it also helps support all the educational program the mansion does for the school kids during the year,”…… MORE
A man who tried to change Washington through the media now hopes to do the same as a member of Congress.… 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…