State Rep. Dan Brady and other lawmakers are preparing to return to Springfield next week for the fall veto session.… MORE
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State Rep. Dan Brady and other lawmakers are preparing to return to Springfield next week for the fall veto session.… MORE
A Connect Transit board member is questioning the accuracy of statements made by the board’s chair and vice chair when they spoke earlier this month to the Normal Town Council.… MORE
A Central Illinois lawmaker does not agree with President Donald Trump’s tweet describing the impeachment inquiry process as a “lynching.”… MORE
Lawmakers are taking another crack at fighting opioids in Illinois.… MORE
Elected leaders Monday night did not rule out the possibility that they’ll allow businesses to sell marijuana in Bloomington and Normal.… MORE
Monday is a key day in Normal and Bloomington in determining if either community will allow businesses to sell marijuana for recreational use.… MORE
Bloomington’s cannabis task force is recommending the city council allow regulated marijuana sales for recreational use, but task force members are not unanimous in that view.… MORE
A Democrat has announced her candidacy for McLean County Coroner.… MORE
The McLean County Board is authorizing Administrator Camille Rodriguez to find an outside accountant to look at the government’s bookkeeping practices, but members don’t want taxpayers to foot the bill.… MORE
McLean County’s administrator revealed Monday night that hundreds of county government employees almost didn’t get paid on time last month, while late fees continue to add up because the county is tardy paying bills.… 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…