Dave Askins

A six-vote majority on Bloomington’s nine-member city council was enough Wednesday night to grant pharmaceutical company Catalent a tax abatement in exchange for a capital investment of $350 million and 1,000 new jobs. The additional jobs would grow the pharmaceutical company’s local workforce by about

On Wednesday afternoon, the now vacant former NAPA building at the corner of 3rd and Walnut Streets showed little sign of its planned conversion for use as the location for in-person early voting for Monroe County. The first day of early voting is April 5. Primary Election Day is

In under two and a half minutes at its Feb. 16 meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved eight appointments to the city’s historic preservation commission (HPC). Abstaining on the vote were Dave Rollo and Ron Smith, who both said that they’d received such late notice of the proposed

The old Showers Company administration building at 10th and Morton will not be purchased by Fine Tune from Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC)—at least not under an agreement inked last year. An accord approved by the RDC in mid-August of 2021 had set up the prospect for the

Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s state of the city address last Thursday included a proposal to increase revenue, but was light on detail. No amount was provided for a possible local income tax (LIT) increase. But sometime in the next eight months or so, an increase to the current 1.

One sign of spring in downtown Bloomington this week was the pair of sap buckets hanging from the trunk of the big maple tree on the grounds of the Monroe County History Center. Volunteers with the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead have tapped the trees at the history center as part of