Dave Askins

In the last four years, one of the more controversial decisions by Bloomington’s city council was the enactment of an ordinance to reinstall stop signs on 7th Street. A measure of that controversy was Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s veto of the decision.  Of the three pieces of the

Appearing for part of the program at Friday’s Canopy of Lights in downtown Bloomington were three local elected officials—Bloomington mayor John Hamilton, and Monroe County commissioners Penny Githens and Julie Thomas. So the executives in city and county government were represented on stage. Off stage, holding up the

On Friday night, downtown Bloomington was lit up brighter than Rudolph’s nose on Christmas Eve, and the square was packed with people, spilling onto Kirkwood Avenue, which was shut down for the occasion. It was the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving extravaganza to flip the switch on the strands of

The photos above were taken inside of 90 minutes on the morning of Thanksgiving Day 2023. To save future archivists one chore, that was Nov. 23, 2023. The chronological sequence starts with a red-tailed hawk perched on the WFHB antenna just across from the 4th Street parking garage in

On Tuesday night, Bloomington’s board of public works denied the appeal by Joe Davis for a citation by the city—for what the city staff considers to be violations of the health and sanitation parts of city code (Title 6) at his South Washington Street property. In a separate

For the last two and a half years, Bloomington’s main fire station on 4th Street has sat unused for fire operations.  That’s because it was damaged in the flood of June 2021. But construction work on the existing 4th Street station, to put Station 1 back into service,