Dave Askins

At its May 23 meeting, the Monroe County council voted unanimously to appoint three of its seven members to a committee it had already created two weeks earlier, on May 9. The committee is supposed to dive into the question of how to pay for new facilities, to address the

If you have six or more unpaid parking tickets in Bloomington, the city can have your car towed away. It used to be that just four unpaid tickets could get your car towed. But two years ago, in May 2021, Bloomington’s city council approved the administration’s request to

David Wolfe Bender has withdrawn as the Democratic Party’s District 6 city council nominee in Bloomington’s Nov. 7 municipal election. Two weeks ago, on May 18, the county election board had convened a hearing on Bender’s disputed residency in District 6. The board voted to refer the

On an average day, 2,526 cars drive along the section of Morton Street between 7th and 8th streets in downtown Bloomington. Measured just a few months ago, that’s one of the freshest numbers in Bloomington’s traffic count dataset. That dataset and others are available through the part

On Tuesday, Bloomington’s five-member economic development commission (BEDC) tried to meet for the first time since October of last year. All the pieces for a meeting appeared to be in place. Three of the five BEDC members were physically present in the McCloskey Room at city hall. The majority

On Sunday, The B Square made a visit to a bald eagle’s nest north of Bloomington, in Morgan County. The adult eagle cut across the sky overhead, keeping watch over the two younger birds, which were sitting sheltered in their peaceful roost. Let these photos of nature’s beauty