Dave Askins

At last Thursday’s unveiling of the city’s annual public safety report for 2022, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton took the occasion to announce a few new incentives that are meant to help recruit and retain firefighters and police officers. Among those incentives is a $100,000 no-interest housing

On Saturday, the city of Bloomington hosted a “Black Market” at city hall as part of its celebration of Black History Month. The event was an homage to the Black Market of the late 1960s, which was firebombed by a man with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. The market

“None of the above tract of land is to be ever sold to colored people.” That is the text of a covenant recorded on a deed dated Nov. 6, 1912 for some land located at the northwest corner of 17th Street and College Avenue in Bloomington, Indiana. A point in

Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté has fired a guard at the county jail after an altercation with a prisoner, because the guard “failed to follow our high standard requiring de-escalation whenever possible.” In the bodycam footage  that was released by the sheriff’s office, as three guards tussle with

In a Thursday afternoon meeting that lasted about six and a half minutes, Monroe County’s three-member election board dispatched all the resolutions related to setting polling locations for the May 2 primary elections. There will be 17 polling locations for Bloomington’s city elections and one for Ellettsville.

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