Dave Askins

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

A report released by Bloomington resident Mark Stosberg late Monday questions the way funding for construction of new sidewalks has been allocated in the city for the last 17 years. The report concludes that the process a four-member city council sidewalk committee has used  to recommend funding has caused