Dave Askins

As expected, there was no action by Bloomington’s city council Wednesday night on a motion that had been made four weeks ago to remove Greg Alexander from the city’s traffic commission. Somewhat unexpected at the end of this Wednesday’s meeting was the lack of any motion that

Four weeks ago, Bloomington’s city council delayed a vote on the question of removing Greg Alexander from the traffic commission—by referring the matter to an already established committee on council processes. In the meantime, that committee has met three times. This Wednesday, the question of Alexander’s removal

With each election cycle, the League of Women Voters hosts a website with candidate profiles. It’s called Vote 411. Included below are links to all the LWV profiles for all candidates in Bloomington’s city primary elections—for mayor, clerk, and city council. The Vote 411 profiles include the

In late 2021, The B Square reported that no citations had been issued to scooter companies for violating the parking regulations laid out in a local ordinance, which was approved by the city council in July 2019. When no ordinary parking tickets were issued to scooter companies, that came as

In the city of Bloomington, the job of mayor is not ceremonial. That’s different from many cities across America, which use the council-manager form of local government. In cities that use a council-manager style of government, the city council hires a city manager to oversee the city’s administration

Remonstrators against Bloomington’s annexation efforts will not be given any extra time to collect signatures. The 90-day period for collecting remonstration signatures against Bloomington’s annexation efforts ended over a year ago, on Jan. 6, 2022. A court ruling against any additional time for signature collection came Thursday from