Dave Askins

The B Square’s report on the plan commission’s meeting last week was headlined with a question: Did Bloomington plan commission meeting follow state law on electronic meetings? After talking to a half dozen different experts on Indiana’s Open Door Law, I think the answer to the headline’

At its regular meeting on Monday, Bloomington’s five-member redevelopment commission approved a $403,082 contract with Axis Architecture for engineering services and design of the planned new technology in the Trades District. The technology center is a joint project of the city’s economic and sustainable development (ESD)

Repair and restoration of Monroe County’s Alexander Memorial at the southeast corner of the downtown courthouse square is set to get started on Monday. That means downtown visitors might notice a big crane hoisting big panels of limestone into place. It also means that eight fewer parking spaces will

Every candidate for any office in the Monroe County primary elections got exactly six votes—and that’s the way it was supposed to turn out on Thursday. The occasion was the logic and accuracy test of voting equipment that’s required under state statute. It was conducted at the

In a memo released Thursday afternoon, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton announced some details about an anticipated local income tax (LIT) increase for Monroe County. Bloomington’s city council will be asked to enact a tax increase as soon as one month from now. Also getting some additional detail was the

Poll workers for Monroe County’s May 3 primary elections won’t be trained at the Hilton Garden Inn. Instead they’ll learn the ins and outs of working the polls at the county government center in the Showers building on Morton Street, or the new election operations center at