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At Monroe County’s election board meeting last Thursday, election supervisor Karen Wheeler announced she had resigned her position. “Today will be my last election board meeting, since tomorrow is my last day as Monroe County election supervisor,” Wheeler said. Wheeler read aloud some prepared remarks recounting her time serving

The finalization of polling sites for the 2023 municipal elections in Monroe County could not be decided at last Thursday’s meeting of the three-member election board. That’s because it was still an open question whether any elections would be held in Ellettsville and Stinesville—the other incorporated areas

On Jan. 11, an Asian student at Indiana University, who was riding a Bloomington city bus, was repeatedly stabbed in the head by another passenger. A fact that emerged later, in the probable cause affidavit submitted to the court, was the suspect’s description of her motivation: It was based

The question of removing Greg Alexander from Bloomington’s traffic commission won’t get a vote by the city council until March 1 at the earliest. At this past Wednesday’s city council meeting, the matter was referred to a special committee that already existed, after it was appointed by

On Jan. 4, residents were able start filing official declarations of candidacy in the 2023 Bloomington primary elections. But at noon on Friday, the time for filing official paperwork expired. No unexpected declarations for mayor were recorded on the last day of filing. That means voters across the city in

At a meeting of the community justice response committee (CJRC) 10 days ago, Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté and his executive team presented slides showing conditions at the jail, which confronted them when Marté was sworn into office at the start of the year. A kind of counterpoint to Marté’