Dave Askins

On Friday evening, the Bloomington Jazz Orchestra delivered an hour’s worth of music from the edge of the Monroe County Public Library’s parking lot in downtown Bloomington. I counted more than 50 people in the crowd. Many had brought lawn chairs because they’d seen the advertising for

This past Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council failed to achieve a quorum for its committee-of-the-whole meeting. For the nine-member council, a quorum is five. But only four councilmembers showed up: Susan Sandberg, Jim Sims, Dave Rollo, and Ron Smith. In practical terms, the lack of a quorum just meant that

In a Thursday news release, Bloomington police reported that a 23-year-old man, described as a “transient,” has been arrested in connection with the July 27 shooting death of a Kinser Flats resident on the city’s north side. The news release says that Kendrick Q. Webb was arrested in Melrose

Bloomington’s Bethel AME church, which sits on the northeast corner of 7th and Rogers streets on the western edge of downtown, is set to receive historic designation from the city council at its meeting next Wednesday (Aug. 17). The parsonage, which sits to the north of the church, will

“I think it only makes sense to go into negotiations armed with knowledge.” That was county commissioner Julie Thomas’s commentary on Wednesday morning about the possibility of getting an appraisal of county-owned real estate in downtown Bloomington. Her comment came at the end of Wednesday’s work session, which

Monroe County employees could be looking at a 5-percent increase to their pay in 2023, while inflation is running a few points higher than that. At their Tuesday night meeting, Monroe County councilors voted unanimously to recommend for current budget planning purposes that a 5-percent cost-of-living adjustment be made to