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The impact of short-term rentals in Bloomington came up as a topic in two separate public meetings on Monday, and could factor into more conversations among public officials before the end of the year. Short term rentals (STRs) are the kind of accommodations provided by companies like Airbnb and Vrbo.

For the third week in a row, at 11 p.m. on Sunday night (Sept. 8), a crowd gathered for a candlelight vigil at Indiana University’s Sample Gates, where Kirkwood Avenue dead ends at the western edge of the Bloomington campus. The vigil has been organized to protest a

In 2025, Bloomington’s “living wage” will reach $16.22 an hour. Of that $16.22, up to $2.43 can be in the form of health insurance offered to a covered employee. The increase in 2025 will boost Bloomington’s living wage by $0.47 an hour (about 3

This past Wednesday (Sept. 4), Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that was brought by Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita, over the sheriff’s policy for dealing with immigration status. The  policy applies to “immigration and/or citizenship status of suspects, offenders, witness(es)

On Wednesday, two weeks after Bloomington officials cleared a homeless encampment south of town,  some of the residents who lived there addressed a meeting of the city council, which was also attended by the mayor. At least a dozen people, who either lived in a displaced encampment, or were there

On Wednesday, the planned expansion of the Monroe Convention Center was the focus of two important meetings. In the afternoon, Monroe County’s capital improvement board (CIB) heard presentations from three different hoteliers who responded to a request for proposals (RFP) to develop a hotel in connection with the convention