Dave Askins

In June, the city of Bloomington issued a news release  announcing that Bloomington had been given a Gold-level Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award  by the League of American Bicyclists (LAB). That was not a big surprise, because Bloomington has previously received a Gold BFC award from the LAB—in

Mid-afternoon on Friday, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton released a statement vetoing the city council’s action taken last week,  to approve reinstallation of  stop signs at four intersections on 7th Street. The stop signs that have already been reinstalled at the 7th-and-Dunn intersection will remain in place—

All registered voters who live in the MCCSC school district will be able to vote on the school referendum question as part of the Nov. 7 “municipal election.” That’s despite the message in a TV ad featuring Monroe County clerk Nicole Browne, which has run over the last few

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council gave final approval to the six ordinances that make up the 2024 city budget. The council’s votes on the six pieces of legislation were nearly unanimous except for the sole dissent of Steve Volan on a couple of items. Volan dissented on

On Wednesday morning at the Monroe County election operations building at 3rd and Walnut Streets, county clerk Nicole Browne kept her election tradition. At precisely 8 a.m. when early in-person voting started, Browne opened the door and proclaimed: “Hear ye, hear ye! The polls are now open!” https:

After two and a half hours on Tuesday night, Bloomington’s board of public works adjourned its meeting without acting on three controversial agenda items. The items involved: the Miller-Showers gateway project; a professional services agreement with Griffin Realty in connection with the sale of the 3rd Street police