Dave Askins

At a Saturday caucus of the Monroe County Democratic Party, Courtney Daily emerged as winner of the contest to fill the District 5 vacancy on the Bloomington city council. Daily was declared the winner after county chair David Henry broke a 4–4 tie in favor of Daily, over Jenny

Still set to preside over Saturday’s (March 2) three-way contested caucus to fill the vacancy in the District 5 Bloomington city council seat is Monroe County Democratic Party chair David Henry. The vacancy was left when Shruti Rana announced her resignation from the seat in mid-January, effective

Next Monday (March 4), the initial invitation from Bloomington’s city council to apply for this year’s round of Jack Hopkins social services funding will be emailed to around 350 nonprofits. That’s according to Bloomington city council staff attorney Stephen Lucas, after a Thursday afternoon meeting of the

The governance structure for the expansion of the Monroe Convention center, which currently stands at 3rd Street and College Avenue, is now settled. On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council approved its side of a four-way interlocal agreement about the way the Monroe County capital improvement board (CIB) will

A tax abatement worth a total of around $10.4 million, which was granted by Monroe County’s council on Tuesday night, has cleared the way for Simtra BioPharma Solutions (formerly Baxter Pharmaceutical) to build a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at its Curry Pike facility just outside Bloomington’

By the end of March, local officials will likely know if Monroe County will be included in a program funded partly by the state, to help prisoners return to life outside the county jail. That’s according to Jayme Whitaker, who is vice president of forensic services and director of