Dave Askins

By November of this year, construction bids are expected to be put out for the expansion of Bloomington’s city hall building into Showers West—which is supposed to house a new police headquarters, and the administrative offices for the fire department. That was one key takeaway from a city

At its Thursday meeting, Monroe County’s three-member election board accepted five appointments that have been made to an 11-member vote center committee. Vote centers are different from the kind of precinct-based polling locations currently used by Monroe County. At a precinct-based polling site, only voters from specified precincts can

A rezone request for Lake Lemon Marina was denied by Monroe County’s three-member board of commissioners at its Wednesday meeting. Voting against the request were the two commissioners present—Julie Thomas and Penny Githens. Lee Jones was absent. Based on commentary during Wednesday’s meeting, the case will eventually

No final decision was made on Wednesday night, but Bloomington’s city council took a clear step towards giving the position of elected city clerk a big salary boost. On a 7–2 vote, the council passed a resolution indicating its intent to set the clerk’s salary for 2024

The special judge assigned to a Bloomington annexation case has ruled that a standard trial to which remonstrators are entitled will not go ahead in mid-November as originally scheduled. That’s what remonstrators in Area 1A and Area 1B had requested—a delay on those proceedings, until some related litigation

Yes, it’s been quite a summer. Mine ended with a one-day visit up to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to see Chris Buhalis  play a show at the North Star Lounge. When Buhalis sings the lyric, “I come from a big car town, we shine ‘em up and we drive ‘em