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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

Yesterday (Feb. 25) marked an important milestone for an eventual relaunch of The B Square Bulletin.  The old articles, published in the five and a half years before the shutdown late last year, were transferred to this new publishing platform. The new platform (Ghost) will help The B Square to

Monroe County government will collect about $3.8 million less in property taxes in 2025 than would have been allowed under state law. That’s due to what has been described to The B Square as a data entry error for the budget numbers that were approved by the seven-member