A group of 22 cyclists will pedal through Bloomington next Friday and Saturday as part of a nine-week journey from San Francisco to Washington, DC. Mostly college students, the riders are participating in the 17th annual Bike-Aid, a cross-country cycling trip that raises public awareness about pressing social issues.

Mayor John Fernandez and fellow Secretary of State candidate Todd Rokita held "dueling news conferences" in Indianapolis last Tuesday, in which each pledged to be tougher than the other on securities fraud in Indiana, according to the Associated Press.

The Bloomington City Council is poised to hand over yet another $78,000 of taxpayer money to the Bloomington Economic Development Corp. under the ruse of "economic development."

Agency to limit public input on plan

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is ready to move ahead with plans to ram Interstate 69 down the throats of the Bloomington community. And it appears that officials there are giving new meaning to the term duplicity.

In an ideal world, last Thursday's headline in the Indianapolis Star - "For 25 years, GM and state knew city lived with PCBs" - would be big news.