Dave Askins

At the end of a Friday hearing that lasted about an hour and 20 minutes, special judge Nathan Nikirk did not issue a ruling in the case that remonstrators against Bloomington’s annexation have brought to the court. Friday’s hearing involved the remonstrators in Area 1A and Area 1B,

At 11:11 a.m. on Friday morning, Bloomington deputy mayor Don Griffin, Jr. filed paperwork with the Monroe County election division to become a candidate for mayor in the 2023 election. Griffin joins Susan Sandberg  and Kerry Thomson  as previously declared candidates for the mayoral nomination of the Democratic

In the state of Indiana, a candidate who files their campaign finance paperwork three weeks late could owe a fine of up to $1,000. But it’s almost never the case that late filers in Monroe County have to pay a fine at all. That’s because Indiana’s

Bloomington at-large city councilmember Jim Sims will not be seeking reelection in 2023. Sims has confirmed his plans not to run in 2023 in a phone interview with The B Square. The nine-members of the city council, along with the mayor and city clerk, are up for election in 2023.

In a Wednesday morning email sent site-wide on behalf of Andrew Espejo, who is general manager of Catalent’s manufacturing facility in Bloomington, the pharmaceutical manufacturing company has announced a reduction of its Bloomington workforce by 400 jobs. The email indicates that employees—which include full-time and temporary employees, mostly

By around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, two state police sergeants had appeared at Monroe County’s Election Central at Madison and 7th streets—to secure the ballots and voting equipment that were used for the Nov. 8 general election. It’s the standard process that is used under