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A head-on collision on South Leonard Springs Road at 7 a.m. today killed a Yellow Cab taxi driver, 31-year-old Gwendolyn Marie Sanders of Bedford; Brayden Wilson a 20-year-old Bedford man was killed this morning by a gunshot wound to the head; investigators in the Bloomington police department have determined that postcards sent to city council members did not constitute a legal threat; unemployment in Indiana remains steady, according to this month’s Indiana employment report; district staff have been struggling to find the cause of water infiltration on the construction and demolition hill at the landfill; the Community Kitchen is moving to a larger facility; Bloomington Hospital’s HIV/AIDS care coordination program has received $225,000 dollars to expand into a new program; the Monroe County Public Library wants Monroe County residents to help build their Civil War era history collection
FEATURE
It’s budget week in Bloomington with four straight nights of number crunching at City Hall. Last night the city council heard presentations from several department heads on the nearly fifty-six million dollars it will take to run B-town in 2011. Spending is essentially frozen across the board compared to last year, with the exception of a one-point-five percent pay raise for city employees. All this week on the Daily Local News we’re taking three or four hour meetings and condensing them down to eight-minute highlight reels, starting with today’s budget overview by deputy mayor Maria Heslin and mayor Mark Kruzan.
FIREHOUSE FEEDBACK
Kim Goye comments on the IU employee pay raise freeze.