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Dave Askins

Dave Askins

Bloomington, Indiana

Dave Askins is editor and publisher of The B Square Bulletin. A Hoosier native with a background in math and linguistics, he previously co-founded the Ann Arbor Chronicle with his wife, Mary Morgan.

Boutique hotel above former Peoples Bank on Kirkwood OK’d for height

Boutique hotel above former Peoples Bank on Kirkwood OK’d for height

The former Peoples Bank building on Kirkwood Avenue now has a future as a 5-story 47-room boutique hotel. That is made possible by Bloomington’s board of zoning appeals (BZA), which has granted a variance that allows for the adaptive reuse project to exceed the height that would ordinarily be

Column | Sliding into the holidays: Expectations for Christmas Eve blown away

Column | Sliding into the holidays: Expectations for Christmas Eve blown away

Mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve in downtown Bloomington was pretty quiet. It did not feel much like the traditional holiday season in southern Indiana. Because Christmas Eve fell on a Sunday, some shops and restaurants were closed that might have otherwise been open for business. Temperatures in the mid-60s did not

Image: Merry Christmas, Bloomington! (even if not everything is spelled exactly right)

Image: Merry Christmas, Bloomington! (even if not everything is spelled exactly right)

The B Square’s experiments with AI (artificial intelligence) fake photo generation suggest that reasonably serviceable images for a specific set of purposes can eventually be obtained, though perhaps not on the first try. Today’s seasonal greeting comes from Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator (powered by DALL·E 3)

Analysis | A list checked twice: Unwrapping Bloomington city council’s 1,093 votes over 4 years

Analysis | A list checked twice: Unwrapping Bloomington city council’s 1,093 votes over 4 years

Two weeks ago, Bloomington’s elected city clerk, Nicole Bolden, called the roll of the nine city councilmembers for their final vote of the four-year term. The vote was unanimous: Every councilmember voted in favor of the encomiums that were read aloud for each of the five councilmembers who will

2023 will be a warm Christmas for Bloomington, but probably not the warmest ever

2023 will be a warm Christmas for Bloomington, but probably not the warmest ever

Area Christmas Eve temperatures hit 63 F degrees. The warm lead-in to Christmas Day might make some Bloomington residents wonder: Will Christmas Day in 2023 be the warmest one on record? The answer is: Probably not. But it will be one of the warmest. The National Weather Service forecast for

Transit notebook: Bloomington heads towards more cashless fares, year-end housekeeping

Transit notebook: Bloomington heads towards more cashless fares, year-end housekeeping

Bloomington Transit (BT) is looking to switch to a fare collection system where almost all passengers who pay to board the bus will do it with an electronic transaction. At its meeting last Tuesday, the BT board authorized general manager John Connell to negotiate an agreement with Cubic Transportation Systems

$873K contract for greenway, other work awarded by Bloomington board of public works

$873K contract for greenway, other work awarded by Bloomington board of public works

Awarded to E&B Paving by Bloomington’s board of public works on Tuesday was a $873,378 construction contract that includes the Hawthorne-Weatherstone neighborhood greenway project. The project is a north-south connection running through central Bloomington, between 3rd Street on the north end to Hillside Drive on the