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52-year-old David Craig was found dead at the Economy Inn located at 4805 South Old State Road 37; attorney General Greg Zoeller announced today that an emergency 90 day suspension has been petitioned to the Indiana Medical Licensing Board on Dr. Kamal Tiwari; The identity of the Bedford man who shot two people has been released as 22 year old Brent Knapp; The Indiana Department of Transportation’s plans to expand State Road 45/46 bypass; the Monroe County Community School Board will be asking voters a question on the November second ballot- Are you willing to pay additional taxes; a new forty-eight-lot subdivision off of State Road 446 has been approved by the Monroe County Plan Commission; the state Department of Transportation is considering adding a traffic light in Ellettsville;

FEATURE

It’s budget week in Bloomington with four straight nights of number crunching at City Hall. It will take nearly fifty-six million dollars to run B-town in 2011, and last night the city council heard presentations from the police and fire departments and the local bus system. Several council members describe the hearings so far as run-of-the-mill, with spending essentially frozen across the board compared to last year with the exception of a one-point-five percent pay raise for city employees. But at least ONE council member got a big surprise at last night’s review of the budget for city utilities. For several years the utilities budget has included funding for stormwater drains under city sidewalks, funding that the city sidewalk commission depends on. Councilman Chris Sturbaum could not find that line item in the new utility budget and challenged utilities director Pat Murphy to explain why. Murphy admitted that he is spending that money elsewhere, leading Sturbaum to pass on a vote of confidence in the entire utilities budget. We’ll hear from Sturbaum in a few minutes after Murphy’s budget overview in this WFHB radio exclusive.

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