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Today we engage with a masterpiece…literally: scholar Steve Volan’s Master’s thesis, Gownsburg: The Campus as Municipal Phenomenon. Volan has also been a City Council member in Bloomington, Indiana since 2004. In Gownsburg, the politician and the geographer seek common ground in order to describe what the University does well – but more importantly, to help us see how far afield …

A state court judge will issue a decision on the City of Bloomington’s lawsuit against the State of Indiana, next week. It is the first judgement in an ongoing legal battle between the city and the state, over the municipality’s attempt to annex areas of Monroe County, two years ago. Bloomington’s annexation attempt was blocked by the Indiana legislature, who …