Dave Askins

In the city of Bloomington, the job of mayor is not ceremonial. That’s different from many cities across America, which use the council-manager form of local government. In cities that use a council-manager style of government, the city council hires a city manager to oversee the city’

Remonstrators against Bloomington’s annexation efforts will not be given any extra time to collect signatures. The 90-day period for collecting remonstration signatures against Bloomington’s annexation efforts ended over a year ago, on Jan. 6, 2022. A court ruling against any additional time for signature collection came Thursday

Now finally settled is the wording of the job description for a new position at Monroe County’s jail, which is supposed to help put the jail into a clean and sanitary condition and keep it that way. The job description was the topic of a Friday noon meeting of

Sunday public bus service will get a boost from Bloomington Transit (BT) starting on March 26. Initially passengers won’t have to pay a fare to board on Sundays. There’s currently some Sunday service on Route 6 and Route 9. But Sunday service for at least a few more

Appearing in the same room at the same time on Tuesday were all three Bloomington mayoral candidates in the May 2 primary race for the Democratic Party’s nomination: Don Griffin, Susan Sandberg, and Kerry Thomson  The room was Aver’s Public House on South College Mall Road. The occasion

“Try as I may, I cannot come to grips why this low-level position, a sheriff’s office employee, is of any interest at all for the commissioners, other than to fully support it.” That’s one sentence of a 3,500-word email that Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté