Dave Askins

It’s just a nine-acre wedge, nestled between College Avenue and Walnut Street, north of 17th Street. But over the last couple of days, Bloomington’s Miller-Showers Park has been the center of city government focus from more than one angle. On Sunday morning at the park, the

There was a lot of business that got transacted on Monday, at the first meeting of the year for Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC). But there was one big takeaway: A plan to renovate Showers West, to create a home for fire administration and police operations, looks like it will

On Jan. 11, 2023, an Indiana University student was stabbed as she rode a Bloomington Transit bus, because she looked Asian. From the city council dais this past Wednesday, District 5 representative Shruti Rana mentioned the incident, calling last week “a poignant one for our city, in that it marks

Monroe County’s new treasurer is Cathy Smith. Smith was the easy choice for the roughly five dozen Democratic Party precinct chairs who gathered in the Nat U. Hill room of the Monroe County courthouse on Saturday (Jan. 20). That’s because she was the only choice to fill the

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in December 2023. A bit less than half (36) of the 76 places that were inspected in December 2023 had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical

In a Friday mid-afternoon news release  (Jan. 19), Bloomington police have announced the arrest of a suspect in the shooting death of a 52-year-old man 10 days earlier, in an encampment on the city’s west side, near Wheeler Mission. According to the news release, a 41-