Dave Askins

On Wednesday night, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s roughly $107 million budget for 2022 was approved on a unanimous vote of the city council. Two weeks ago some city councilmembers had threatened to vote against it. After expressing discontent with the mayor’s 2022 budget at their Oct. 13 meeting,

In a news release issued early Tuesday afternoon, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton has made a pitch to the city council to adopt his proposed 2022 budget. After expressing discontent with the mayor’s 2022 budget at their Oct. 13 meeting, and before voting on it, councilmembers recessed the meeting until

Seven Oaks Classical School is again challenging its citation for violation of the county’s indoor mask mandate, which is connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time the challenge comes in papers filed with the Monroe County circuit court. The county has enacted a mask regulation to help prevent

Sunday’s 14 positive COVID-19 cases for Monroe County contributed to a rolling 7-day average of 19.7 cases. That’s good news, in terms of the state’s metrics for community disease spread. But it still leaves the county at about twice the number of daily cases

The roughly 6,000 Bloomington residents who currently pay the city $11.61 a month for weekly pickup of their 64-gallon trash cart, could see that amount more than doubled—to around $24 a month. That kind of increase would come from applying some assumptions floated at city council

A four-member committee established by the Monroe County board of commissioners has now met twice as it tackles the task of making recommendations on new precinct boundaries for the county. Once the precincts are settled, the group will make recommendations on boundaries for county council and county commission districts.