Dave Askins

On Monday, the city of Bloomington released an arts feasibility study done by Trahan Architects, which was commissioned by mayor John Hamilton’s administration. A key recommendation from Trahan was for the city to keep the Waldron building on Walnut Street as a permanent city arts venue—not just for

Next Wednesday’s meeting of the Bloomington city council (Nov. 2) will likely feature a renewed consideration of a request by Peerless Development to vacate an east-west alley on the old Johnson’s Creamery building. According to a memo in the council’s nearly 500-page meeting information packet, it’s

Turnout for this year’s midterm elections would be expected to be lower than in 2020, a presidential election year. But this year’s early voting numbers for Monroe County look like they could be also lagging behind the midterm numbers from last time around in 2018. In 2018, about

On Wednesday, at Bloomington’s traffic commission meeting, a question from commissioner Greg Alexander left city attorney Mike Rouker stumped: “If I was to ask the question, ‘What is the B-Line right-of-way within the terms of Chapter 12.08?’ where would I look, if not the transportation plan?” Rouker’s

Off SR-37 south of Bloomington and just south of the spot where I-69 and the state highway merge sits Sunmart, a Shell gas station and convenience store that also allows overnight truck parking. The overnight truck parking now has to end, because a requested rezoning of the nearly 5-acre property

The approval of contract renewal that would allow the Bird scooter company to continue to use the public right of way to do business in Bloomington was pulled from the Tuesday meeting agenda for the board of public works (BPW). The item is also not expected to appear on the