Dave Askins

The Bloomington plan commission’s already-started review of the city’s 4th Street parking garage site plan proposal won’t resume until Sept. 9. The Monday, Aug. 12, meeting packet, which was posted on the city’s website Friday afternoon, includes the parking garage site plan under the heading:

The summer-long Bloomington Comedy Festival at the Comedy Attic put another week of competition in the books on Wednesday. It was the first of two quarter-final rounds, which feature six candidates each week. The top three of six vote getters on Wednesday were Mark Bookwalter, Jonas Schrodt and

Bloomington’s city council voted Wednesday night to relax some membership requirements of the parking commission, a move meant to make it more likely the commission has a full complement of nine members. But the council postponed a couple of changes to the city’s parking code until its Aug.

The City of Bloomington is prepping to knock down the Fourth Street parking garage starting Sept. 3. But the demolition won’t start from south to north, which is one of the scenarios that bidders for the work were asked to contemplate. That’s because legal proceedings in the city’

Monroe County’s sheriff, Brad Swain, appeared in front of the county board of commissioners on Wednesday morning to ask them to approve $6,850 to install four microphones on the first floor of the jail. With the purchase came the news that body cameras will be worn by a

Separate parking issues on Dunn Street and 17th Street together make up one of the two items on Wednesday’s city council agenda. The second agenda item is also related to parking—the eligibility requirements for service on the parking commission are proposed to be loosened. Both agenda items are