Dave Askins

On Monday, reports of Bloomington’s tap water tasting and smelling bad continued to come into the city’s uReport system. One example: “The smell and taste of the water has been absolutely disgusting for at least three weeks. Has the cause been found yet? It makes me nauseated to

A planned water rate increase for Bloomington utilities (CBU) customers will likely be put in place as planned on Jan. 1, 2022. That was the big news out of Monday’s regular meeting of Bloomington’s utilities service board (USB). At Monday’s meeting, CBU director Vic Kelson told the

Two recent meetings of Monroe County officials featured renewed enthusiasm to start thinking again about the convention center expansion project. The downtown project, which Bloomington and Monroe County officials have been pursuing for a few years now, had hit yet another rough patch in early March 2020, just before the

Recycling pickup by the city of Bloomington will be canceled for the week starting Monday, Sept. 27 according to a news release issued by the city on Sunday afternoon. The reason for the interruption in service, which will last at least a week, according to the news release, is a

The final 2022 budget, on which the Bloomington city council will be expected to take action in mid-October, was released late Friday afternoon. It’s possible to find among the documents in the meeting information packet for Sept. 29 an additional $5,000 in pay for police officers. But

The percentage of eligible Monroe County residents who have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic virus is still just under 60 percent. At the current pace of vaccinations in the county, which is around 60 additional people a day, it will take another week or so to eke out