Dave Askins

On Wednesday, when a decision was scheduled on the 2022 Bloomington budget, the city council chose to recess its meeting without voting, less than 90 minutes after it was called to order. The recess came when it became apparent that the mayor’s budget did not have majority support on

At its Wednesday meeting, the three-member Monroe County board of commissioners appointed four residents to give advice on the upcoming task of redrawing boundaries for precincts, as well as for county council and county commissioner districts. The redistricting work on the local level has the same impetus as the

In 2022, non-Bloomington residents will most likely be able to surrender their animals to Bloomington’s animal shelters without paying a fee, the way they have for several years. At their regular Wednesday morning meeting, Monroe County commissioners approved their side of an interlocal agreement that the county has

An appeal by B&L Rentals of a $50 fine imposed by the city of Bloomington for poison ivy and other plants growing taller than 8 inches did not need to be heard at Tuesday’s board of works meeting. That’s because the notice of violation was converted

On Monday evening, during question time at a community gathering, Hana Yuisa Vargas rose to speak from a seat in the second tier of the auditorium at Monroe County’s public library. Vargas said, “My ancestors helped [Christopher Columbus] to survive. We indigenous people, we’ve been helping everyone. White

In a news release issued on Friday (Oct. 8), the city of Bloomington publicized its removal of stop signs along 7th Street at cross streets between Walnut Street and Indiana Avenue. The removal of the stop signs is intended to help the traffic flow on 7th Street. The east-west