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Up until Tuesday night, the job of health administrator of Monroe County was paid $62,026 annually, based on a 35-hour work week. After the county council’s action at its Tuesday meeting, health administrator Lori Kelley will work a 40-hour week, and receive the corresponding increase in salary—an

If Monroe County councilors stay on the course they have now charted out, they could have around $100,000 more to spend on jail operations for the final quarter of this year. It would also mean in subsequent years about $424,000 more to spend each year to support the

Diversity, equity, and inclusion was the focus of Monday afternoon’s meeting of the county council’s justice fiscal advisory committee (JFAC). The highlight of the committee’s meeting was a presentation on racial disparity at the Monroe County jail. Presenting the information was former attorney Guy Loftman, who serves

On Sunday evening, with a guitar slung over his shoulder, Bill Breeden addressed a couple dozen others who had gathered on the southeast corner of the Monroe County courthouse lawn. “I wonder how many Japanese words we would have to hear, to make up for all the Japanese voices that

A couple of weeks ago, the city of Bloomington released the results from this year’s community survey. The survey has been conducted every two years for the city of Bloomington by the same firm—Polco/National Research Center. That’s now four surveys worth of data that can be

On Aug. 28, about three weeks from now, Bloomington’s city council will start a four-day slog through presentations from department heads, about their proposed budgets for 2024. In 2023, Bloomington’s budget totaled about $129 million—that’s not counting the budget for city of Bloomington utilities (CBU) or