Dave Askins

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

A couple dozen property tax payers spread across two of Bloomington’s annexation areas have now filed a legal action  under state law to void the ordinances that were enacted by the city council in the third week of September 2021. The complaint, filed in the Monroe circuit court on

Getting unanimous approval from Bloomington’s plan commission on Monday night was the site plan for a three-story, 21,000-square-foot office building in the Trades District. The joint project of the city’s economic and sustainable development (ESD) department and the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation is the

Monday’s regular meeting of Bloomington’s plan commission was the first one since Indiana governor Eric Holcomb’s emergency health order was lifted. The plan commission’s meeting was conducted on a hybrid in-person-electronic platform. Just four commissioners attended in person, out of nine voting members. Two

Energy Power Partners has responded to a city of Bloomington utilities (CBU) request, with a proposal to conduct a $129,220 waste-to-energy feasibility study. The study would cover scenarios involving the generation of biogas by using anaerobic digestion of primary sludge from the Blucher Poole wastewater treatment plan,