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With just a month to go before early voting starts for the May 2 Democratic Party primary, a poll conducted from Wednesday through Friday of this week shows that any of the three candidates could easily wind up being the Democratic Party’s nominee. No Republican candidate is running for

The first step of a formal investigation into the residency status of Bloomington city council candidate David Wolfe Bender has now been taken. At its regular meeting on Thursday, the three-member Monroe County election board voted unanimously on a motion that concluded that there is enough reason to believe that

As expected, there was no action by Bloomington’s city council Wednesday night on a motion that had been made four weeks ago to remove Greg Alexander from the city’s traffic commission. Somewhat unexpected at the end of this Wednesday’s meeting was the lack of any motion that

Four weeks ago, Bloomington’s city council delayed a vote on the question of removing Greg Alexander from the traffic commission—by referring the matter to an already established committee on council processes. In the meantime, that committee has met three times. This Wednesday, the question of Alexander’s removal

With each election cycle, the League of Women Voters hosts a website with candidate profiles. It’s called Vote 411. Included below are links to all the LWV profiles for all candidates in Bloomington’s city primary elections—for mayor, clerk, and city council. The Vote 411 profiles include the

In late 2021, The B Square reported that no citations had been issued to scooter companies for violating the parking regulations laid out in a local ordinance, which was approved by the city council in July 2019. When no ordinary parking tickets were issued to scooter companies, that came as