Dave Askins

Aside from the petition that challenged the 2025 city budget, the Bloomington city council’s adoption of its 2025 spending plan a couple of weeks ago was relatively quiet. The one wrinkle was an amendment to the budget made the same night (Oct. 9) as it was adopted—to cut

A settlement agreement in a legal dispute that started last year, between Sojourn House and Monroe County, could soon result in a zoning variance for the nonprofit. Sojourn House wants to operate a residence for up to eight victims of human trafficking with post-traumatic stress disorder and other related disabilities

Bloomington police officers and firefighters are set to receive significant pay increases in 2025 compared to what they earned in 2024. Appearing on the city council’s Oct. 30 meeting agenda is the salary ordinance for police and firefighters,  which will put the legislative body’s stamp of approval on

In a ruling issued on Tuesday (Oct. 15), Monroe County circuit court judge Emily Salzmann found in favor of the city of Bloomington in its years-long attempt to enforce what it considers to be violations of city code on Joe Davis’s Washington Street property. By Thursday morning, Davis had

After more than three weeks of wrangling about how to display local election tallies to the public on election night, Monroe County’s election board decided Tuesday on a mostly business-as-usual approach. Left out of the mix is An Island, LLC, a Tell City company that Monroe County clerk Nicole

In January 2023, when a Monroe County resident asked for food service inspection reports, the best response that county government could muster came from Mike Kuzemka, who works in the health department as the environmental health services manager. Kuzemka asked the resident to fill out a records request form. Now,