Dave Askins

Bloomington police are investigating two early-Saturday shootings within two blocks of each other in downtown Bloomington. [Updated at 5:44 p.m. on May 2, 2022: Bloomington police announced on May 2 that an arrest was made that day in connection with the Kalao shooting.] [Updated at 5:23 p.

Early Friday afternoon, a red-tailed hawk perched for a minute on top of the Monroe County courthouse weathervane in downtown Bloomington. It could have been surveying the work that’s being done to renovate the Alexander Memorial on the southeast corner of the square. Or it might have been keeping

Around 12:45 p.m. on Friday, about 60 bicyclists pedaled north on Walnut Street past the Monroe County courthouse with printed signs affixed to their machines that said, “ON STRIKE For Union Recognition.” The chanted slogans like “What do we want? Union! When do we want it? Now!” They

Work on the restoration of the Alexander Memorial at the southeast corner of the courthouse square continues. On Thursday morning (April 21), the first of the newly milled limestone panels were put into place by the crew from Wells Masonry. It is tedious work. The tolerances are small, and the

Bloomington’s city council has postponed its decision on an increase to Monroe County’s local income tax (LIT) rate. On Wednesday, the vote on the motion to postpone was 8–1 with Steve Volan dissenting. The council will take up the matter again a week from Wednesday, at a

On Tuesday night, the five-member Bloomington Transit (BT) board voted unanimously to go ahead with a pilot program starting in early May that will use Uber or Lyft—with a subsidy for the rides taken under BT’s banner—to replace late night service on some existing routes. The board