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April 3, 2025: Storm, school board, vote centers, big tech

Relaunch update Since the online donation platform was launched earlier this week, 182 of you have committed to recurring monthly donations to help support The B Square. Thank you! It will take several hundred more of you to give this a shot at success. Please consider making a contribution! Online

Editor's Notebook: Paying the dues for Total News—please help fund it

Editor's Notebook: Paying the dues for Total News—please help fund it

I'm writing to ask for your financial support of The B Square Bulletin. After a roughly two-month hiatus, which was planned to be a permanent shutdown, The B Square is back. Over the last four weeks, some of The B Square's brand of local government coverage

March 31, 2025: Storm, hotel, bus operations, vote centers

Relaunch update The online donation program for individual contributions to The B Square is now operational. If you're already a "Member" and you are receiving the morning email message, then Step 1 is to use the link in the top right-hand corner of the screen that

March 27, 2025: School board opening, hotels, buses, control of streets

Relaunch update I have scheduled some meetings for later this week and early next week that will help determine the shape of things to come for The B Square. It's easy to say, "Yes, there will be an online donation program for individual contributions!" And frankly,

March 24, 2025: Postal protest, cartoons, annexation, gender, mechanical bull ride

Relaunch update This coming week will mean a big push to get some B Square organizational details settled, to prepare for the restart of a donation program around the beginning of April. It's easy to say, "Yes, there will be an online donation program for individual contributions!

March 20, 2025: Downzoning, alleys, sirens, gender, Cider!

Relaunch update Included in Monday's Almost Daily Bulletin were two embedded maps. One map showed the requested alley vacation for a planned hotel in the Trades District. The other map showed the requested rezone of more than 200 parcels in the unincorporated part of Monroe County. But those

March 17, 2025: Theater preview, annexation update, zoning galore, a dandy dog

Relaunch update For now, I have settled into a twice-a-week pattern (Monday-Thursday) for the morning email, which is called the Almost Daily Bulletin. Before the shutdown last year, it was a three-day schedule. It's probably fair to say that twice a week does not merit the description of