Monroe commissioners awarded energy grant
The Monroe County Commissioners were awarded almost $290,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy to promote community energy conservation education.
The Monroe County Commissioners were awarded almost $290,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy to promote community energy conservation education.
Democracy looked like a group of about 50 protesters marching the wrong way on College Avenue to the Justice Building on Saturday.

In this week's episode, we talked to reporter Mark Keierleber, who responded to the scene of the protest against JPMorgan-Chase at the Kelley School of Business.
The College of Arts and Sciences completed its Themester with a symposium of individual presentations of selected topics of research on this semester's topic, "Making War, Making Peace".
Hal Kibbey knows the answer to, “What is that bright thing up there in the sky?”Kibbey is the writer behind the monthly astronomy column Star Trak, which has been published for the last 32 years.
For four alumni, IU is more than a homecoming. It took months of searching to find the top candidates for the open positions at IUAA.
Dr. Diana Ebling, medical director of the IU Health Center, said health can be a problem during stressful times in the semester. Less focus on eating right can lower immune systems, and students don’t take time to rest.
IU Ballet Theater presented its 53rd annual production of “The Nutcracker” this weekend at the Musical Arts Center.
On Friday and Saturday, the Union Board Performing Arts Committee presented a show featuring a variety of the duo’s songs in “An Evening of Kander and Ebb” at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
The vintage organ that first led Michael Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. Fitz, to create the sound for Fitz & the Tantrums does not tour with the band. After all, the band would have to have its own semi-truck to move it, said saxophonist and flautist James King. But the massive instrument is still an inspiration.
I’m feeling the approach of wintery melancholia. Maybe it’s the recurring persistence of Bloomington’s “always winter, never snow.”
I’ve never biked through Bloomington, but I’ve walked, driven and ridden the bus, and I can tell you, getting around Bloomington can sometimes be a transportation nightmare.
Some Kelley students worried their chances at a job with JPMorgan were harmed. Good.
The now infamous protest that occurred outside a JPMorgan-Chase sponsored event at the Kelley School of Business last week was done in a way that served to almost invalidate the ideas of those protesting.
After a sluggish first 20 minutes, IU (8-0) broke open a four-point halftime lead to beat Stetson (4-4), 84-50, on Sunday afternoon.
The IDS basketball writers will be live chatting with other members of the media during IU's game against Stetson here. The game tips off at 4:30 p.m. and the chat will begin at 4:15 p.m.

Host Max McCombs is joined by women's basketball beat writers to discuss IU's 2-4 start to the season and upcoming game against Oklahoma State.
An 11-month-old Bloomington child is currently in critical condition after a man allegedly threw her into her crib Thursday, causing severe head trauma and a fractured skull.
The Hoosiers are playing two games this week for “bragging rights” in the conference.
The IU wrestling team will compete Friday and Saturday in the 30th annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.