It’s official: Kerry Thomson will be Bloomington’s Mayor in January 2024. We get a new cast of characters in the serio-comic spectacle that is our City Council. John Hamilton will leave City Hall without having consummated his hostile takeover of the suburbs, closed the road through Lower Cascades Park or erected his aluminum cutta atContinue reading “A New Year, A New Focus: Bloomington vs. Its Neighborhoods”
Tag Archives: Transparency
We Endorse: Nicole Haughton Bolden (City Clerk)
For City Clerk, we endorse Nicole Haughton Bolden.
What’s a vote worth? Cash pouring into mayoral campaigns makes you wonder
How much campaign cash is enough? In such a small-time election, it’s fair to wonder where the campaigns run out of practical ways to spend their donated cash — and where contributions morph into opportunities to get the candidate’s attention.
Middle finger to neighborhoods
It’s really appalling to think of all the hours, all the energy, over four months, we all utterly wasted last year arguing over the UDO. Seriously, four months I’ll never get back. Not just me – all of us, on both sides of the core neighborhood upzoning issue. Because ultimately it made no difference thatContinue reading “Middle finger to neighborhoods”
The Dissident Democrat 