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At its Thursday night meeting, Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC) took two votes that put the former Player’s Pub building on a possible path to permanent historic protection. The specter of some not-yet-confirmed “sensitive” information that could “sully some reputations” was raised by one commissioner, but that did

A press release issued Thursday afternoon by the city of Bloomington announced the start of a public engagement process to revise the zoning map of the city. Action by the plan commission and city council is not scheduled until 2021. Substantive revisions to the zoning map were the next, expected

The COVID-19 pandemic is still causing ridership on Bloomington Transit buses to slump compared to normal levels, even if the month-to-month numbers have shown increases starting in May. The return to campus of Indiana University students in August has increased numbers a bit, but the historical September spike is not

On Wednesday morning, a vote on changes to Monroe County’s personnel policy got postponed by the board of commissioners. Several of the proposed changes to the policy had a certain routine quality. One was the conversion of sick time to personal benefit time. That conversion meant deleting requirements for

Funding agreements between Bloomington’s HAND (Housing and Neighborhood Development) Department and eight local nonprofits totaling $253,862 were approved by the city’s redevelopment commission on Monday night. The money is coming from a supplemental allocation of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, which was made available by the