Dave Askins

On Monday, the first step towards a $50 million high-speed internet fiber deal, between Bloomington and the Paris-based infrastructure firm Meridiam, got a 4–0 vote of approval from the city’s redevelopment commission (RDC). The question in front of the RDC was a resolution that declares an economic development

Late last week, the MGGG Lab at Tufts University released a mapping tool that makes it easy for anyone to draw new boundaries for Bloomington’s city council districts. The release is part of a web-based redistricting resource the lab has developed, called Districtr. The Bloomington module of Districtr was

Because it operates under Indiana state law, the city of Bloomington’s local government is divided along familiar lines—between legislative and executive branches. But when it comes to policy on parking prices for city hall employees, that division is not easy to discern. The distinction is hard to see,

At its meeting on Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council voted unanimously to vacate parts of two alleys in one of the blocks near the former site of the IU Health hospital. The request came from the Hamilton administration through the Bloomington redevelopment commission (RDC). The block in question is bounded

At its regular meeting on Wednesday (June 1), Bloomington’s city council postponed a vote on a request from Peerless Development to vacate an east-west alley that cuts across the parcel where the Johnson’s Creamery building sits. Vacating the alley means ceding to private ownership some land that is

In a ruling issued on June 1, Monroe County circuit court judge Catherine Stafford found that Bloomington’s plan commission violated Indiana’s Open Door Law (ODL) with its March 14, 2022 meeting. The allegation that the meeting violated the electronic meetings section of the ODL was made in a