this was a good outcome but it is mind blowing that an elected official or two (pretty clear who it was from watching the meeting) thought they could just slide this by. without @luke-taylor.bsky.social's reporting, no one would have known. support local journalism.

it was voted down unanimously.

city council getting their ass handed to them for 3+ hours tonight. public comment still going.

i know for a fact a city of champaign live stream hates to see me comin

champaign city council is going to vote on making homelessness illegal tonight btw. www.news-gazette.com/news/champai...

final four ???

Let's just forget everything said And everything we did Best friends and better halves Goodbyes And the autumn night when we realized We were falling out of love There were some things that were said that weren't meant There were some things that were said that weren't meant Ther

that 11 am kickoff morning air hit my nose like smelling salts.

if you want to get radicalized just go to a city council meeting and listen to them debate a mission statement for an hour and I promise you won't believe in any form of government by the end of it.

odds that city council does anything about Flock flaunting their rules, time and time again: +100000 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

rose bowl ???

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bloomington liberation day

We support this.

the sad truth of the matter is that the rest of indiana would probably kick out monroe county, where bloomington is, if they could. don't just take my word for it, look at their own actions:

rose bowl ???

rose bowl ???

four weeks in a row of publicly berating the budget guy. meanwhile not a peep about Flock from City Council. honing in on Adobe licenses but radio silent on the thousands of tax payer dollars spent for questionably-legal surveillance. give me a break. www.news-gazette.com/news/patters...

rose bowl ???

gonna protest tonight

real

ill be frank with you,,,i don't know where macomb is

For his annual Illini football preview, @jhettinger.bsky.social returns to the blog for a look forward to what could be a dream season. Read the whole thing here:

nice. do the right thing @champaigncity.bsky.social. www.news-gazette.com/news/local/c...

hey @champaigncity.bsky.social how many times does Flock have to break your rules for you to do anything??? www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

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In his first article for the blog, @jaredfritz.bsky.social takes a look at a particularly confusing case of zoning in Champaign, and what it means for the city's housing priorities moving forward. Read the full piece here on Champaign Showers dot com: champaignshowers.com/longer-reads...

You know what, hell yeah

Congrats to this year's bracket winner: Julian! Julian (and his service dog Sprite, pictured) chose to make their $500 donation to Illini Service Dogs, a cause very close to Julian's heart. For the gift card, he chose a variety of goodies from Live Action Games, Titan Games and Enchantment Alley.

well I'll be damned

yeah we've been under way more tornado warnings than usual by April 2nd but at least everyone's 401ks are looking good right

what's crazy about this whole thing is that ty rodgers is originally from michigan and morez johnson is originally from illinois. this'll be fun. also they both went to thornton township high school. s/o lupe fiasco.

I moved back home to Central Illinois last year, and I couldn't believe the level of herbicide drift. It's inescapable. I decided this year, I'm going to document the stories of herbicide drift, starting with the pain of filling out a nursery order form: t.co/0Q7OSklQFZ

you all care way too much about the transfer portal and way too little about the city of Champaign consolidated election on April 1st

sad

hope the sox go for 150 this year

which one of you absolute lunatics went through the expense and hours required to send anti-homeless-shelter mailers to everyone in town? real ghoul shit!

love to listen to my favorite basketball teams on my favorite radio station, news talk 1400, wdws

if Shauna could bail all of us out this afternoon that would be good and fine.

delayed reaction but this one got me. laughing thru the paign.

personal and regional biases aside, I hope Boswell stays. the leadership he showed down the stretch is important. he could be a local legend forever. just my 2c.

bummer :/

idk about you but I'm feeling a little bit like...final fucking four ???

the thing about Kylan Boswell, and I don't know if any of you know this, but he's from Champaign. he grew up here. so we love him. that's the deal. that's how it works. pretty simple.

BOSWELL

Happy tournament tipoff day! To celebrate, @jhettinger.bsky.social takes a look back at some of the discourse that dominated Illini Basketball this year: champaignshowers.com/longer-reads...

I wrote about being an Illini basketball fan on the Bad App.