Dave Askins

On Tuesday afternoon a three-judge panel from Indiana’s court of appeals heard oral arguments in a case involving the city of Bloomington’s constitutional challenge to a 2019 state law, which causes annexation waivers to expire after 15 years. [Link to video of Dec. 17, 2024 Court of

On Monday night, at a meeting that lasted just a half hour, Monroe County’s plan commission voted 6–1 to forward the most recent draft of the county development ordinance (CDO) to the Monroe County board of commissioners for a final vote. The CDO includes all the zoning regulations

Up for a vote by the Bloomington Transit board on Tuesday will be a policy change that reduces the amount of advertising on the city’s public buses. The Tuesday (Dec. 17) meeting is the final monthly meeting of the year for the five-member board. Last month, the issue

On Thursday, a committee that met for the first time about a year ago made some progress towards completing a plan to establish vote centers in Monroe County. The plan is required under Indiana state election law to implement a vote center system for Monroe County—something that supporters of

At its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Monroe County’s capital improvement board got a status update on the project that the seven member group was formed to oversee—the expansion of the county convention center. The current name of the facility at 3rd Street and College Avenue is the

The Monroe County board of health  has accepted the resignation of health officer Clark Brittain, which he submitted just before Thanksgiving. Brittain’s resignation is effective on Dec. 31, 2024. The board’s action to accept Brittain’s resignation came at its Wednesday (Dec. 11) meeting. At the same meeting,