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Column: In Bloomington, serving as mayor is a big job, so get ready to vote

Column: In Bloomington, serving as mayor is a big job, so get ready to vote

In the city of Bloomington, the job of mayor is not ceremonial. That’s different from many cities across America, which use the council-manager form of local government. In cities that use a council-manager style of government, the city council hires a city manager to oversee the city’s administration

Judge: No more time for remonstrators to collect signatures against Bloomington annexation

Judge: No more time for remonstrators to collect signatures against Bloomington annexation

Remonstrators against Bloomington’s annexation efforts will not be given any extra time to collect signatures. The 90-day period for collecting remonstration signatures against Bloomington’s annexation efforts ended over a year ago, on Jan. 6, 2022. A court ruling against any additional time for signature collection came Thursday from

New job for coordinating cleaning of Monroe County jail now has description, on clear path to creation

New job for coordinating cleaning of Monroe County jail now has description, on clear path to creation

Now finally settled is the wording of the job description for a new position at Monroe County’s jail, which is supposed to help put the jail into a clean and sanitary condition and keep it that way. The job description was the topic of a Friday noon meeting of

Bloomington Transit notebook: Sunday service starts March 26, fare collection systems to get a look

Bloomington Transit notebook: Sunday service starts March 26, fare collection systems to get a look

Sunday public bus service will get a boost from Bloomington Transit (BT) starting on March 26. Initially passengers won’t have to pay a fare to board on Sundays. There’s currently some Sunday service on Route 6 and Route 9. But Sunday service for at least a few more

3 Bloomington mayoral hopefuls speak at first forum

3 Bloomington mayoral hopefuls speak at first forum

Appearing in the same room at the same time on Tuesday were all three Bloomington mayoral candidates in the May 2 primary race for the Democratic Party’s nomination: Don Griffin, Susan Sandberg, and Kerry Thomson The room was Aver’s Public House on South College Mall Road. The occasion

Candid email from Monroe County sheriff presses commissioners for more urgent approach to new jail cleanup position, other issues

Candid email from Monroe County sheriff presses commissioners for more urgent approach to new jail cleanup position, other issues

“Try as I may, I cannot come to grips why this low-level position, a sheriff’s office employee, is of any interest at all for the commissioners, other than to fully support it.” That’s one sentence of a 3,500-word email that Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté addressed on

Monroe County sheriff, commissioners square off at committee meeting, ACLU lawyer says: “Look, you need a new jail. Everyone knows that.”

Monroe County sheriff, commissioners square off at committee meeting, ACLU lawyer says: “Look, you need a new jail. Everyone knows that.”

The headliner on Monday’s agenda for Monroe County’s community justice response committee (CJRC) meeting was Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana. Falk is the attorney who filed a lawsuit against the county in 2008, which is still subject to a “private” settlement agreement—so-called only