Dave Askins

Bloomington’s city attorney, Larry Allen, has confirmed to The B Square that his last day working for the city’s legal department will be Dec. 31. The opening for Allen’s position was posted on Tuesday. Allen will be joining the Bloomington office of the Paganelli Law Group, which

Judith Benckart, the Republican Party’s appointee to the Monroe County election board, has announced her resignation from the three-member group, effective Dec. 31, 2024. Benckart read aloud her letter of resignation at the regular meeting of the board on Thursday afternoon. As the reason for her resignation, Benckart cited

On a unanimous vote, Bloomington’s city council has adopted a “Safe Streets for All” (SS4A) action plan. The plan is supposed to guide the city’s work towards a goal of reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries on the city’s roadways to zero by 2039. The

At its regular Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved an interlocal agreement between the city and county governments that continues an arrangement first made in 1996, under which Monroe County enforces building code inside the city limits. In recent years the timeframe for the agreement has been just one

The selection of Weddle Brothers Building Group as the construction manager (as constructor) for Bloomington fire department’s new logistics and training center has been approved by Bloomington’s board of public works. The board’s action came at its regular Tuesday night meeting. The new logistics and training center

In 2025, Monroe County government and the town of Ellettsville are expected to pay a combined total of $456,281 to the city of Bloomington for animal care at the city’s shelter. That’s the figure that’s recorded in the interlocal agreement that appears on the agenda for