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At its regular Wednesday meeting (March 5), the Bloomington city council approved the issuance of $46,825,000 in lease rental revenue bonds, to finance the cost of expanding the Bloomington Convention Center. The interest rate for the bonds is 5.0 percent. The term of the bond issuance is

The annual extra infusion of revenue from local income tax (LIT) to government units across the state will amount to about $6.9 million in Monroe County this year. That’s about half the $14.3 million supplemental distribution of LIT that Indiana’s State Budget Agency (SBA) calculated for

Over the last few days, it has been encouraging to see some positive reaction on social media channels to the news that “The B Square is back.” It is hard to deny that The B Square is back, given that some fresh news is getting reported on this new platform.

Cory Grass has been elected chair of the Monroe County Republican Party. Grass confirmed the outcome to the B Square in a telephone interview on Saturday (March 1). The GOP caucus was attended by around 40 precinct chairs and vice chairs, which was held at 10 a.m. at the

On Saturday, at its quadrennial reorganizational caucus held at Bloomington’s city hall, Monroe County Democrats elected Samuel Ujdak as party chair. Ujdak is taking over from outgoing chair David Henry, who did not seek to continue in the post. Other party officers picked on Saturday, also in uncontested elections,

The planned Monroe County jail and justice center project now has an estimated construction price tag of almost $207 million, which increases to $237 million when soft costs are added, which is way more than the $200-million figure that county officials were given in mid-2024. Getting a unanimous green light

Late Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 25), on the bricked plaza in front of Bloomington’s city hall, a person with an AR-15-style rifle was passing out flyers for the Rainbow Panther Party with a call to “combat the city’s fascist policies against the unhoused.”  The one-person demonstration reportedly lasted a