Dave Askins

At its Tuesday meeting, the Monroe County council approved a $11.375-million purchase agreement for the land where a new county jail and co-located justice complex is now planned to be built. The property that the councilors agreed to buy amounts to about 52 acres in North Park, off SR46,

On Tuesday, a $370,000 contract  with Marshall Security, Inc (MSI) was approved by Bloomington’s board of park commissioners at its regular monthly meeting. Based on payments recorded in Bloomington’s online financial system, from 2021 through mid-November 2024, the city of Bloomington has paid $950,019 to MSI

On Monday morning, a traditional Veterans Day flag raising ceremony took place on Indiana University’s Bloomington Campus, under clear skies and a temperature of about 42 F degrees. Delivering remarks was Lieutenant Colonel Stephanie Baugh, who is an army foreign area officer serving as the current US Army War

Sunday night was the 12th and likely final week in a row for a protest at Sample Gates in Bloomington, against Indiana University’s new “expressive activities” policy, which was effective Aug. 1. Sample Gates is the spot where Kirkwood Avenue dead ends at the western edge of the Bloomington

Monroe County numbers from the Nov. 5, 2024 election delivered overall outcomes that were mostly expected. [.pdf file of results] [.csv file of results] Even the possible exception, which was the District 62 state representative race, between Dave Hall (R) and Thomas Horrocks (D), was not a complete surprise. Monroe

This past Wednesday, at Bloomington’s city council meeting, mayor Kerry Thomson used her time at the mic to make a clarion call for applications to serve on the city’s historic preservation commission (HPC). Appointments to positions on the HPC are somewhat unusual, because they are the mayor’s