Dave Askins

Another homeless encampment has been cleared in Bloomington, this time along the Rail Trail south of Country Club Drive and North of Gordon Pike. At a news conference in the first week of August,  Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson said that the encampments along the Rail Trail, which had 30-day notices

At its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Bloomington Transit’s board approved the agency’s budget for 2025, which weighs in at $32.6 million. The budget was not controversial for board members, because they’d received a briefing on a draft last month, and the version in front of

Next Monday, Aug. 26, marks the first day of class for Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. It’s also the opening day of budget season for Bloomington’s city council. That’s when Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson is expected to present her draft 2025 budget proposal to the council, which

A precautionary boil water alert issued for all Monroe County residents on Saturday afternoon by city of Bloomington utilities had a Sunday morning impact on area food service establishments. Even though rank-and-file residents could make their own judgments about whether to follow the boil water advice, that was not an

As of about 3:25 p.m. on Saturday (Aug. 17) Monroe County residents are being advised to boil their water as a precaution, because of an IDEM (Indiana Indiana Department of Environmental Management) requirement that such an advisory be issued when drinking water standards are violated. The standard in

Depending on what the Monroe County county council does in the next six weeks, all residents of the county could see as much as a 0.19 point increase to the local income tax (LIT) rate that they currently pay. The higher tax would be effective starting on Jan. 1,