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On Tuesday night, Monroe County councilors enacted a change to local income tax rates that will not result in more money collected from taxpayers. That’s because the only change is to shift one tax rate to another. But the impact of that shift will give the county about $425,

On the first night of Bloomington’s 2024 departmental budget hearings, Bloomington’s elected city clerk Nicole Bolden opened her presentation like this: “I’m going to start with the very big elephant in the room: This is not the budget proposal that I wanted to make to the council

On Monday, Bloomington’s city council held the week’s first night of departmental budget hearings. Three more nights of hearings are set to follow on successive days. One piece of big news about the spending plan for 2024 came from Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s introductory remarks. To a

On Tuesday, a big group of local government officials has been invited by Monroe County commissioners to a discussion about the future site of a new county jail. The meeting, which will be convened in the Nat U. Hill Room of the county courthouse, is set to start at 5:

At around 9:45 p.m. on Friday, the final proposed city budget of Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s service was uploaded to the city’s website. At about $131 million, it’s about 1.5 percent more than the budget approved by the city council for 2023. That figure

On Thursday night, Grammy-award winning artist Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway delivered more than an hour and a half of bluegrass bliss in Bloomington’s Switchyard Park. The temperature of 92 F degrees, combined with a relative humidity of around 66 percent, made for a heat index of