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“Lift the people up. Once you’ve got a sustainable model that is working for the people at the bottom, then you can have my 50 cents.” That’s what Patrick Cortese, an educational publisher, told a Bloomington city official last Thursday night. The occasion was a community meeting about

After an unsuccessful attempt to use eminent domain to acquire land south of the now-demolished 4th Street parking structure, the city of Bloomington has now unveiled a design for the replacement garage. The new design is confined to the footprint of the old 352-space garage. On Monday, March 9, the

Back in 1991, Bloomington’s city council voted to rezone the property at the northwest corner of Kinser Pike and the SR 45/46 Bypass, so that it could be used for offices and the storage of semi-trailers. That 7–2 vote of the city council taken 30 years ago

Starting in the April billing cycle, Bloomington residents will pay more every month for trash and recycling service. That’s the result of a unanimous vote on the three-member board of public works at its regular meeting on Tuesday. In round numbers, customers will pay between $3.50 and $23

In three weeks, a group of four city and county officials will try to achieve what a larger group of 13 electeds could not accomplish on Monday night. Monday’s meeting was the third one this year that has tried to build on some momentum from December, when Bloomington and

Starting sometime in early May, Bloomington residents will probably start seeing social media efforts related to the master planning of the old hospital site on 2nd Street. The 24-acre site will be handed over to the city in late 2021 by Indiana University Health in a $6.5 million real