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On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council gave final approval to the six ordinances that make up the 2024 city budget. The council’s votes on the six pieces of legislation were nearly unanimous except for the sole dissent of Steve Volan on a couple of items. Volan dissented on

On Wednesday morning at the Monroe County election operations building at 3rd and Walnut Streets, county clerk Nicole Browne kept her election tradition. At precisely 8 a.m. when early in-person voting started, Browne opened the door and proclaimed: “Hear ye, hear ye! The polls are now open!” https://bsquarebulletin.

After two and a half hours on Tuesday night, Bloomington’s board of public works adjourned its meeting without acting on three controversial agenda items. The items involved: the Miller-Showers gateway project; a professional services agreement with Griffin Realty in connection with the sale of the 3rd Street police station;

On Monday night, a short-handed Bloomington plan commission put off a vote on a proposed phasing out of billboards in the city by 2031. One big question that emerged during Monday’s meeting: How much compensation will Bloomington have to pay billboard owners, if the city causes them to remove

In about three months, nine people will be sworn into office to start a four-year term on Bloomington’s city council. Just four councilmembers will return. Five members will be new. Unless Republican Brett Heinisch  prevails in the District 3 race against Democrat Hopi Stosberg, the council that is sworn

On Friday, the lawsuit that Bloomington resident Joe Davis filed over access to the Nov. 7 ballot as an independent mayoral candidate was dismissed. The ruling on Davis’s claim was by Lucas Rudisill, who is the magistrate judge out of Greene County, who was assigned the case. Davis filed