Dave Askins

In a Friday morning news release on the first day of December, Bloomington mayor-elect Kerry Thomson announced most, but not all, of the department heads who will be a part of her administration starting on Jan. 1, 2024. Replacing Larry Allen as deputy mayor will be Gretchen Knapp, who

Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, a rough patch was hit on the road to a new jail for Monroe County. A disagreement emerged between the sheriff and county commissioners over the funding of someone to direct the transition—from the current jail at 7th Street and College Avenue to a

The actual solution to a transit problem outside Bloomington boundaries might not turn out to be the one that was anticipated by the city council in the first half of August. That’s when Bloomington’s city council revised local law to allow Bloomington Transit (BT) to operate anywhere in

It might be next year before all parties have signed an interlocal agreement between Bloomington and Monroe County—in connection with an expansion of the Monroe Convention Center. The effort to get final consensus on a collaboration between city and county leaders about a convention expansion dates back several years,

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in October 2023 A bit under half (49 of 104) of the places that were inspected in October had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations

In the last four years, one of the more controversial decisions by Bloomington’s city council was the enactment of an ordinance to reinstall stop signs on 7th Street. A measure of that controversy was Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s veto of the decision.  Of the three pieces of the