Dave Askins

Election results were ready in Monroe County on election night on Tuesday, Nov. 3, around 11 p.m. Those initial results will now get altered, possibly by as much as 15 votes either way, which won’t be enough to change the outcome of any races. The tweak to the

On Saturday, the state of Indiana’s COVID-19 dashboard logged 8,427 new confirmed cases, which was easily a new daily high since the pandemic started. It’s 1,851 more cases than the previous daily high, just two days before. The peak daily confirmed case high during Indiana’

On Friday morning, a three-judge panel from the Indiana court of appeals decided unanimously that it would hear an appeal made in the middle of a trial about the rightful appointee to a Bloomington plan commission seat. The case will decide who serves on Bloomington’s plan commission: Chris

On Thursday, the Bloomington city council’s four-member administration committee gave a favorable review to a proposed ordinance by mayor John Hamilton’s administration to establish a new engineering department, outside the current planning and transportation department. At Thursday’s meeting, corporation counsel Philippa Guthrie called the need to

If the city’s annual budget starts out as a perfectly round plan at the beginning of the year, it gets a few dings as it rolls along through the months. Towards year’s end, adjustments always get made to the budget, in the form of an appropriation ordinance. Money

Public engagement for Bloomington’s zoning map revision process is underway, with three Zoom video-conference meetings now in the books and at least three more now listed on the city’s zoning map project page. Two meetings are scheduled that will each combine two controversial topics. The first topic