Dave Askins

Political news from the end of this week included city as well as county campaigns for office. Sydney Zulich has filed her paperwork to stand as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s city council ballot vacancy caucus, according to election office staff. The city council vacancy on the Nov.

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council approved the allocation of $323,000 in social services grants to 32 different agency programs. Those were the recommended allocations made by the seven-member Jack Hopkins committee  after reviewing about $965,000 in grant requests from about 45 different agency programs. Last year

On Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council voted down a proposal from mayor John Hamilton’s administration to increase monthly trash cart pickup fees by at least 58 percent. The tally on the vote was 3–5. Dave Rollo was absent. Voting in favor were: Matt Flaherty, Kate Rosenbarger, and Isabel

After a contentious first three months of the year, relations between county commissioners and new sheriff Ruben Marté’s office have settled into a routine update from the chief deputy sheriff at county commissioner meetings. At the start of Wednesday’s county commissioner meeting, chief deputy sheriff Phil Parker offered

On Thursday, starting at 6 p.m. in city council chambers, some “starter ideas” for the redesign of College Avenue and Walnut Street—Bloomington’s main north-south corridor—will be presented by Toole Design, the city’s consultant on the project. The “starter ideas” will be based on feedback from

Before Monday, it had been nearly six months since Bloomington and Monroe County officials last appeared in a public setting, to talk about the proposed expansion of the Monroe Convention Center. The city council’s first meeting of the year, in early January, was the occasion when the city council