Dave Askins

On Wednesday night, a four-member special committee of the Bloomington city council met to consider the possible removal of Greg Alexander from the city’s traffic commission. The outcome of the committee’s deliberations included scheduling two more meetings, both of them before a deadline of March 1. The full

This Monday marked the first meeting of Monroe County’s community justice response committee (CJRC) after the membership was revised by county commissioners—to include all three commissioners, reduce the number of judges from four to two, but not add any representatives from Bloomington city government. The previous couple of

What do AraMark at IU Health Hospital, C-3 Bar, Chef’s Table Catering, The Elm, Fairfax Inn, Feast Market and Cellar, Gables Bagels, Inkwell Café-Woodlawn, Oliver Winery, Raising Canes, Brilliant Coffee, Scenic View Restaurant, Serena’s Food Hut, Toto’s Uncle, Trailhead Pizzeria, Uptown Café, and Wings Xtreme have in

At Monroe County’s election board meeting last Thursday, election supervisor Karen Wheeler announced she had resigned her position. “Today will be my last election board meeting, since tomorrow is my last day as Monroe County election supervisor,” Wheeler said. Wheeler read aloud some prepared remarks recounting her time serving

The finalization of polling sites for the 2023 municipal elections in Monroe County could not be decided at last Thursday’s meeting of the three-member election board. That’s because it was still an open question whether any elections would be held in Ellettsville and Stinesville—the other incorporated areas

On Jan. 11, an Asian student at Indiana University, who was riding a Bloomington city bus, was repeatedly stabbed in the head by another passenger. A fact that emerged later, in the probable cause affidavit submitted to the court, was the suspect’s description of her motivation: It was based