Dave Askins

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in May 2024. Of the 115 places that were inspected in May, 48 (42 percent) had no violations. Recording at least one critical violation were another 49 establishments. Recording at least one

After reducing public commentary time from five minutes to three minutes per speaker two weeks ago, Bloomington’s city council has now imposed for the first time a limit on how long councilmembers can talk on a given topic. Each of a councilmember’s two chances to speak comes with

At its Tuesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council unanimously approved a new salary grade system for the city’s roughly 430 non-union employees, which would eventually mean pay increases requiring around $10 million dollars of investment. The old non-union salary system had 12 grades, each with a range of compensation.

On Tuesday, judge Nathan Nikirk issued a ruling that denies the city of Bloomington’s constitutional challenge to a 2019 state law, which causes annexation waivers to expire after 15 years. Nikirk’s ruling, on five consolidated lawsuits, affects Bloomington’s annexation in five different areas. There’s one lawsuit

On Monday, Deb Hutton presided over her final meeting as president of Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC). At the end of Monday’s regular meeting, Hutton revealed that she will be moving to a suburb of Chicago to be near her grandsons. Hutton’s announcement was met with immediate congratulations

In the second week of July, artist Esteban Garcia Bravo will be arriving in Bloomington to install a version of his sculpture called PRISMA. The sculpture to be placed in Bloomington is a 3-prism version of the original 7-prism sculpture that was installed in Columbus, Indiana for the city’s