Dave Askins

Next Monday at 5 p.m. in a city hall conference room,  Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC) has set a special meeting, to consider a single piece of business: an application to designate about 125 acres in the eastern central part of the city as a conservation district. [Updated

Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson has called a closed-door meeting with the city council for next Wednesday evening (Aug 14), to brief councilmembers on the city’s pending annexation litigation. Under state law, the discussion of pending litigation is one of several reasons why a public agency  can hold a meeting

Randy Cassady will not appear on the Nov. 5, 2024 ballot as the Republican Party’s nominee for District 2 Monroe County commissioner. At a Thursday afternoon meeting of Monroe County’s three-member election board, the hearing on the challenge to Randy Cassady’s eligibility as a candidate was dispatched

A project consisting of a convenience store, gas station, and office, which is planned for a spot west of Bloomington, got a requested rezone from Monroe County commissioners on Wednesday. The vote was 3–0. The approve came even after last week it was denied a requested sewer connection by

In the trial on the merits for two big annexation areas west and southwest of Bloomington, a circuit court judge has ruled in favor of remonstrators—that is, against the city of Bloomington. It was mid-afternoon on Wednesday, when judge Nathan Nikirk, out of Lawrence County, issued his order  that

Around 14,000 drivers a day might have noticed the pair of new driver speed feedback signs since they were recently installed on Atwater Avenue. That’s the one-way street that runs parallel to 3rd Street south of the IU Campus. The estimate number of drivers who have seen the