Dave Askins

At last Wednesday’s city council meeting, several speakers during general public commentary time objected to the previous week’s re-appointment of Greg Alexander to the city’s traffic commission. The commission is an an advisory board that, among other things, recommends to the city council and other city officials

The now open space in downtown that’s roughly bounded by 10th and 11th streets, and Rogers and Madison streets, will get some renewed focus and attention for development. The area is known as the Trades District, which is a 12-acre portion of a larger area comprising Bloomington’s certified

According to the National Weather Service snowfall map, only about 3 inches of snow  fell on Bloomington, Indiana, from Tuesday night at 7 p.m. through 7 a.m. on Thursday. It was a gloppy, wet snow that came with the above-freezing temperature of around 34 F on Wednesday morning.

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city council took action that will, as councilmember Dave Rollo put it, shape the city’s public safety building footprint “for decades to come.” The council split 5–4 on a vote to approve the Bloomington redevelopment commission’s purchase agreement with CFC Properties—for

Bloomington city hall’s footprint inside the former Showers Brothers furniture factory building on Morton Street will expand by 64,000 square feet to include the western portion of the building, where the city’s police station and fire department administrative headquarters will be located. That’s because at its

Under a new policy, when multi-use trails in Bloomington are closed—because of work by contractors or a dangerous situation—a detour has to be provided that gives trail users a convenient alternate route. The policy was adopted by Bloomington’s board of park commissioners at its regular meeting on