Dave Askins

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city budget got just seven votes of support from the nine-member city council. In the approved budget, general fund expenditures for 2021 decreased to around $95 million, from around $99 million in 2020. Nothing significant changed from the time the budget was first proposed

On Wednesday afternoon, at a joint session of Monroe County’s board of commissioners and the county plan commission, both bodies voted separately to agree to a settlement of a lawsuit against William and Nicole Huff and the Huffs’ counterclaim against the county. The county’s lawsuit was filed in

Bloomington is adding around 150 more spaces to its on-street pay-to-park system, according to a news release. That addition bumps by about 10 percent the number of on-street parking spaces where an hourly rate is charged. The city currently has about 1,500 parking meters, which

On Monday night, a project that would replace the predominantly student-rented Brownstone Terrace with a larger student-oriented development called The Standard got a unanimous recommendation of approval from Bloomington’s plan commission. The specific request was for a rezoning. That’s why it now requires approval by Bloomington’

On Monday night, Scott Robinson was confirmed by the city plan commission as director of a Bloomington city department that, for the time being at least, is called the planning and transportation department. The unanimous vote by plan commissioners came after a rare appearance by the mayor at a plan

At the end of the first week of early voting in Monroe County, Indiana, the tally of ballots cast in person stood at 3,662. With Election Central open from 8 a.m to 6 p.m. starting Tuesday, that total, averaged over 40 hours, works out to a throughput