Dave Askins

Perry Township trustee Dan Combs has filed a lawsuit against the city of Bloomington. The suit demands that the city produce records related to decision making and the development of policies connected to displacement of homeless encampments in the last year. The lawsuit was filed Thursday evening. By midday on

A pedestrian connection between the intersection of Country Club Drive and Rogers Street, heading southward towards the new library branch, is part of the list of capital projects to be funded with a $3.1-million bond issuance from Monroe County. The bond issuance was given approval by the Monroe

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