Dave Askins

Three months ago, Bloomington’s board of zoning appeals (BZA) granted a variance  to Academy Sports + Outdoor as part of the Houston-based company’s plan to open a store in the location of the former Marsh Supermarket building on the city’s east side. Under the terms of that variance,

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

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

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)

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

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