Dave Askins

Three candidates are vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination for mayor of Bloomington: Don Griffin; Susan Sandberg and Kerry Thomson. No Republicans have declared. On Monday night, some pre-forum banter among the three seemed a bit more relaxed than for previous events. During their small talk, the trio managed

On Tuesday (April 25), Bloomington’s city council will hold its traditional “budget advance” meeting—which is by custom a chance for councilmembers to say something about their priorities for the 2024 budget. There are at least four ways to tell that it’s not a regular meeting of the

Today (Saturday April 22), walk-in early voters for this year’s May 2 municipal elections can cast a ballot at the election operations center at 3rd and Walnut streets. It’s open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bloomington voters will be electing party nominees for mayor, clerk,

In a one-sentence statement, Thomas Sharp has resigned his position as health officer for Monroe County, effective on April 30. The board of health has appointed Clark Brittain as the new health officer, which is pending approval by the board of county commissioners. Based on the health department’s record

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in March. Just under half of the 88 places that were inspected in March had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations were 17 establishments. Recording at

Monday’s meeting of Monroe County’s community justice response committee (CJRC) was the last one of the full committee—at least for a while. County commissioners voted at their Wednesday work session to “suspend” future CJRC meetings, and instead to form subgroups to focus on specific issues, like judicial