Dave Askins

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

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