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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.

No gambits played by Bloomington city council: Doris Sims to be appointed to new city nonprofit board

No gambits played by Bloomington city council: Doris Sims to be appointed to new city nonprofit board

Doris Sims is the Bloomington city council’s appointee to the five-member board of City of Bloomington Capital Improvement, Inc. (CBCI)—the new nonprofit recently formed by mayor John Hamilton’s administration. Sims is former director of Bloomington’s housing and neighborhood development (HAND) department. She retired from that role

DLZ gets initial nod from Monroe County for new jail design, vote 2 weeks away

DLZ gets initial nod from Monroe County for new jail design, vote 2 weeks away

The final decision has not been made, but DLZ is likely to be the firm that Monroe County uses to master plan and design a new jail facility. At a Wednesday morning work session, Monroe County commissioners received a brief report from a committee that they created to review three

Planning notebook: Former Great Wall restaurant site could be home to 426 college students

Planning notebook: Former Great Wall restaurant site could be home to 426 college students

The property where The Great Wall restaurant formerly stood on North Walnut Street, across from the northern tip of Miller-Showers Park, is now the site of a proposed 8-story student-oriented apartment building. The building would include a mix of 3-bedroom, 4-bedroom and 5-bedroom apartments, for a total of 426 bedrooms.

Advice on choice for new jail design-build firm to be heard by Monroe County commissioners, justice response committee still struggling

Advice on choice for new jail design-build firm to be heard by Monroe County commissioners, justice response committee still struggling

At their work session this Wednesday (March 8), Monroe County commissioners are supposed to receive a recommendation on which of three firms to select, to design and build a new jail. The three firms responded to a request for proposals (RFQ) issued by the commissioners. Reviewing and scoring the three

Another season of Kirkwood street closures, parklets OK’d by Bloomington city council

Another season of Kirkwood street closures, parklets OK’d by Bloomington city council

This year, parts of Kirkwood Avenue in downtown Bloomington will again be closed to automobile traffic—for six months from April 3 through Oct. 1. Again this year, residents and visitors to downtown Bloomington will also notice orange water-filled traffic barriers marking off some on-street parking spaces, so that restaurants

Bloomington parks board holds firm on percentage fee for food and beverage artisans at farmers market

Bloomington parks board holds firm on percentage fee for food and beverage artisans at farmers market

When the city of Bloomington’s farmers market opens for business on the first Saturday of April, the food and artisan vendors will pay 6.5 percent of their gross sales to the city of Bloomington. That’s in contrast to farmers at the market, who pay a set fee

Poll: Wide-open race for Bloomington mayor with a month to go until early voting starts

Poll: Wide-open race for Bloomington mayor with a month to go until early voting starts

With just a month to go before early voting starts for the May 2 Democratic Party primary, a poll conducted from Wednesday through Friday of this week shows that any of the three candidates could easily wind up being the Democratic Party’s nominee. No Republican candidate is running for