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“Is council a co-equal branch of government or isn’t it?” That’s a rhetorical question posed by Steve Volan, this year’s president of Bloomington’s city council, about the relationship between the council and the city’s administration. Volan asked the question during a contentious work session held

A sign that reads “Welcome!  to all, including people of color…” can’t be posted in a vendor stall at Bloomington’s public farmers market for the 2020 season. That’s the impact of one revision to the vendor handbook that was approved Thursday afternoon by Bloomington’s board of

In 2017, Bloomington filed suit against Indiana’s governor, Eric Holcomb, over a law enacted by the state legislature as a part of the biennial budget bill. As Bloomington’s city attorney, Mike Rouker, described the legislation on Thursday morning, during oral arguments in front of Indiana’s Supreme Court,

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council began its year with an organizational meeting that featured a split vote. What generated some controversy at the start of the term was a proposal from newly named council president, Steve Volan, to use existing local code to establish several four-member standing committees.

On December 20 last year, a Monroe County circuit court judge ruled that Bloomington could not use eminent domain to take the JuanSells.com building (222 Hats) in order to build a replacement garage on a larger footprint. The building is just south of the site where the 352-space 4th

On Thursday morning, oral arguments will be heard by Indiana’s Supreme Court in the case involving Bloomington’s constitutional challenge to a 2017 law that suspended its in-progress annexation process. Bloomington won a favorable ruling on both of its constitutional arguments in the lower court. Briefly put, the court