Dave Askins

The planned expansion by NHanced Semiconductors just west of Bloomington’s city limits, has been discontinued. The expansion could have meant 250 new jobs, many of which would have paid around $100,000 a year. The public announcement from the semiconductor firm came at the Monroe County council’s regular

A rezone request from The Indiana Center for Recovery, to allow construction of some group homes in central Bloomington, has been withdrawn. At the first hearing of the ICR petition in February, the planning staff recommendation had been to continue it to the required second hearing. But the staff recommendation

On Valentine’s Day this year, The B Square reported the nesting activity of a pair of red-tailed hawks on Indiana University’s campus—in the big Sycamore tree above Bryan Hall. A month later, it looked like the birds had switched things up and were setting up their household

At its Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council created three new positions in the office of the mayor and eliminated three existing jobs. Created through an amendment of this year’s salary ordinance were positions with the following titles: special assistant to the mayor, executive office manager, and legislative coordinator.

This week, a possible path forward for the Monroe County convention center expansion project in downtown Bloomington got charted out in a bit more detail. At its regular meeting on Wednesday, the Monroe County capital improvement board (CIB) got an update on two separate processes. One is to bring on

In Tuesday’s Democratic Party’s primary to select one nominee for each of two county commissioner seats, two slates formed across the two positions, which among other things shared financial resources, by sending out joint mailings. It was hardly a surprise that the two incumbents—Penny Githens (District 2)