Dave Askins

In a June 6 court filing, remonstrators in Bloomington annexation Area 1A and Area 1B have argued for additional time to collect remonstrance signatures against the city council’s annexation ordinances, which were approved in September 2021. The remonstrators’ basic argument stems from the fact that the COIVD-19 pandemic

An encampment on county-owned land west of Bloomington has prompted action by the Monroe County board of commissioners two Wednesdays in a row. Last week, commissioners added to their agenda a contract with Bio-One, which is an Indianapolis-based company specializing in “extreme cleaning.” The $3,500-per-

Just before noon on Wednesday, Bloomington resident Kerry Thomson filed paperwork with Monroe County’s election division to establish a principal committee for a 2023 mayoral campaign. That makes two Democrats in as many weeks to file some kind of paperwork for a Bloomington mayoral run. On June 1, city

A request for a night time noise permit at the 3rd Street Chick-fil-A restaurant got approved by Bloomington’s board of public works at its regular Tuesday meeting. The noise permit is related to the planned installation of some awnings for the drive-thru area of the restaurant.

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

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