Dave Askins

On Tuesday, Indiana’s state budget agency released its calculations for the maximum levy growth quotient (MLGQ) in calendar year 2025. The MLGQ for 2025 is 4.0 percent. That’s the maximum increase in the total revenues from property taxes that local government units can receive in 2025 compared

Bloomington is looking to appeal the ruling that judge Nathan Nikirk made in mid-June, which found that a 2019 state law about annexation remonstrance waivers was not unconstitutional, as the city had argued. Last Tuesday (July 2), the city of Bloomington filed a motion asking Nikirk to do one of

In a news release issued mid-afternoon on Monday, Monroe County government has confirmed an “intrusion” into its computer network from a source called “BlackSuit.” The cybersecurity breach shut down the county government for the whole week last week—from Monday, July 1 through July 5. A third-party vendor is helping

Some B Square readers might remember when music could be played on disks made of vinyl, which had little grooves, with wave forms molded into them, which were read by a phonograph needle to reveal the encoded sound. That might as well have been the Stone Age. I’d like

After being shut down early on Monday, July 1, due to a computer network outage of unknown cause, Monroe County government announced Wednesday that county offices would remain closed until Monday, July 8. Late Friday afternoon, Monroe County’s chief technology officer, Greg Crohn, told The B Square that the

Due to get started in the third week of September is the construction work to build out 4,059 square feet of office space for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  on the ground floor of the Trades District parking garage. The space fronts on Rogers Street south of 10th Street. Winning