Old B Square

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s mayor John Hamilton did not get the full 0.855-point local income tax (LIT) increase he had asked Bloomington’s city council to approve. But the council did approve a 0.69-point increase, which will generate around $14.5 million annually in new revenue for

A bit after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, at least 30 Bloomington area residents gathered on the southeast corner of the downtown courthouse square, to demonstrate their support of a legal right for women to choose an abortion. Prompting Tuesday’s demonstration was a leaked draft of a US Supreme

The final unofficial results, with all 84 precincts counted, are in for Monroe County primary election races for 2022. In the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for circuit court judge,  Emily Salzmann led the four-person field with 3,073 (34.9 percent) of the 8,813 votes that

The B Square is on site at Election Central at the corner of 7th and Madison streets in downtown Bloomington where the 28 duffel bags from each of today’s polling locations will be deposited by a bipartisan team of poll workers. The polls closed at 6 p.m. Monroe

At 6 a.m. sharp on Tuesday, a Monroe County election worker opened the door from inside the blue building at the corner of 3rd and Walnut streets: “The polls are now open! Come on in!” [raw audio of polls opening announcement] No voters were standing in line at the

At Election Central on Monday evening, Monroe County’s three-member election board re-convened from its recessed meeting on Thursday, to be on hand for any last-minute board decisions that might have been needed. Election Central is housed in the old Johnson’s Hardware building at 7th and Madison streets. Deputy