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On Tuesday evening, the seven-member Monroe County council, which is the elected fiscal body of county government, held a video-conferenced public forum on the future of law enforcement funding. Described on the agenda as a “community concerns and law enforcement resourcing meeting” the three-hour event was led by Latosha Williams

In the pending lawsuit over the rightful appointee to a city plan commission seat, the city of Bloomington filed a motion on Monday to have Andrew Guenther’s claim dismissed, based on the idea that Guenther lacks standing to file the lawsuit. Bloomington’s claim that neither Guenther nor Republican

On Monday, the city of Bloomington issued a press release announcing that a fourth city employee had tested positive for COVID-19. It was the second positive test for a city employee in the last five days, both of them firefighters. The previous two tests came nearly three months ago. Those

Sometime mid-afternoon on Friday a week ago, an anonymous artist, not commissioned by the property owners, drew new letters across the mural in Bloomington’s People’s Park, spelling out the words: “BLACK LIVES MATTER.” That’s the way the mural will look for at least the next few months,

On Thursday, at its first regular meeting since the end of January, Bloomington’s parking commission reviewed the protected bicycle lane project that’s going to be built on 7th Street sometime in 2021. It was in front of the commission because the 7-Line, to be built as a two-way

The 7-Line is a planned protected bicycle lane running east-west across downtown Bloomington towards the Indiana University campus. It gets the numeric part of its name from 7th Street, where the 11-foot wide, two-way path will be constructed along the south side of the roadway, sometime in 2021. The non-numeric