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Last Tuesday’s monthly meeting of Bloomington Transit’s board included the first post-pandemic report that has not shown significant ridership growth in the most recent month’s year-over-year numbers. In May 2024, BT gave 103,263 fixed-route rides, compared to 103,216 rides in May 2023. That’s still

Close to 170 people packed into the Olcott Young Room of the Monroe Convention Center in downtown Bloomington on Thursday night, for a field hearing on Duke Energy’s case to increase electricity rates. That’s a big number, because it’s the maximum occupancy for the room under the

This year, Monroe County should enact a corrections local income tax (LIT) at the full 0.2 percent rate that’s allowed by state law, according to Greg Guerrettaz with Financial Services Group (FSG). Guerrettaz was speaking at a Friday morning meeting of the Monroe County council’s long-term finance

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in May 2024. Of the 115 places that were inspected in May, 48 (42 percent) had no violations. Recording at least one critical violation were another 49 establishments. Recording at least one

After reducing public commentary time from five minutes to three minutes per speaker two weeks ago, Bloomington’s city council has now imposed for the first time a limit on how long councilmembers can talk on a given topic. Each of a councilmember’s two chances to speak comes with

At its Tuesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council unanimously approved a new salary grade system for the city’s roughly 430 non-union employees, which would eventually mean pay increases requiring around $10 million dollars of investment. The old non-union salary system had 12 grades, each with a range of compensation.