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On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council took a half hour to complete the tedious process of introducing 10 separate ordinances that would change the city’s basic law on land use in the city. After that, in just about three hours, the council wrapped up its initial discussion on

Monroe County’s total allocation of awards to local businesses, nonprofits and other governmental entities using federal COVID-19 pandemic relief money is now approaching three quarters of a million dollars. At their regular Wednesday meeting, county commissioners approved a total $64,724 in the latest round of allocations to

At their regular Wednesday meeting, Monroe County’s board of commissioners approved a change to the county’s personnel policy. The change explicitly allows for employees to receive compensated time in order to attend memorial services for anyone actively employed by, or volunteering for the county. Prompting the change was

At last Friday’s work session held by Bloomington’s city council, councilmember Steve Volan announced that he would be submitting a new ordinance for consideration that would “set a hard limit for all meetings to five and a half hours.” Volan’s proposal to make city council meeting length

At its Tuesday meeting, Bloomington’s board of public works cleared the way for the painting of a second “Black Lives Matter” street mural on Saturday. The board approved the use of the public right-of-way on the block of 6th Street between Walnut Street and College Avenue, the

A project that will convert the 85-room Wingate by Wyndham hotel on North Walnut Street to a multifamily project with the same number of apartments received approval from Bloomington’s plan commission on Monday. The vote was unanimous. Monday’s session was the regular monthly meeting for the plan