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Some increased pressure on Monroe County’s board of commissioners and Bloomington’s mayor generated some activity on Wednesday, if not progress, on the question of the stalled convention center expansion project. In a week, it likely will be easier to tell how much of the activity counts as progress.

[Note: The timeline at the end of this piece has been updated to include links to documents released at the Wednesday, Dec. 4 meeting of the Monroe County board of commissioners.] On Tuesday afternoon, the food and beverage tax advisory commission (FBTAC) voted to postpone for a week Bloomington’s

In January 2020, the next edition of Bloomington’s common council will take office. The first law passed by the new nine-member local legislature should be called the “Last Call Public Transit Time Ordinance.” The new law would require that city council meetings end before the last public bus of

With its mean average temperature of 37.1 F degrees, the eleventh month of 2019 ranked as the fifth coldest November on record for Bloomington. That’s  based on numbers from the Indiana University weather station. Records from the campus station, available through the NOAA Climate Center, go back 1895,

Negotiations between Bloomington and its police union, which have lasted the better part of two years, concluded in mid-November with ratification by the union of a new four-year contract. The contract runs through 2022. The agreement and its corresponding salary ordinance appear on the city council’s meeting agenda next

[This cartoon was “drawn” about 10 years ago for The Ann Arbor Chronicle. So it’s consistent with the Thanksgiving tradition of leftovers.]