Dave Askins

A couple of weeks ago, the city of Bloomington released the results from this year’s community survey. The survey has been conducted every two years for the city of Bloomington by the same firm—Polco/National Research Center. That’s now four surveys worth of data that can be

On Aug. 28, about three weeks from now, Bloomington’s city council will start a four-day slog through presentations from department heads, about their proposed budgets for 2024. In 2023, Bloomington’s budget totaled about $129 million—that’s not counting the budget for city of Bloomington utilities (CBU) or

Eleven people are now being sought to fill positions on a committee that has been established to study the question of implementing vote centers in Monroe County. 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

It was about three years ago, in April of 2020, right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when trash cart fees paid by Bloomington residents were last increased. After voting down a proposed increase in mid-June, Bloomington’s city council has now postponed a vote on a revised proposal.

Based on an opinion from Indiana’s public access counselor released late last week, a committee established by Monroe County commissioners, in connection with the planned new jail construction, violated Indiana’s Open Door Law. The committee was created in fall 2022 by Monroe County commissioners to review qualifications of

“Pregnancy is a private and personal decision and should not require the permission of any politician.” That’s a line from a poem recited Monday evening on the Monroe County courthouse lawn, a traditional Bloomington venue for protests and demonstrations. Delivering the verse, which was written by youth poet laureate