Dave Askins

On Saturday, the Monroe County branch of the NAACP held its 42nd Freedom Fund Banquet in Shreve Hall at Ivy Tech on the west side of Bloomington. The banquet is an annual fundraiser that supports the branch’s activities including its scholarship program. The NAACP was founded in 1909, and

A series of changes to optimize bus routes that were planned for 2020 implementation, but were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are now back under consideration by Bloomington Transit. Highlights include: the consolidation of Routes 1 South and 7 Express into a single route to be called Route 7; and

On Thursday, Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC) voted to approve a certificate of appropriateness (COA) for the demolition of the Johnson’s Creamery smokestack down to 60 feet. No conditions are attached to the COA. The commission weighed the idea of requiring the owner to propose a way to

At a special meeting on Wednesday, Bloomington’s board of park commissioners kicked off a process to issue $5.8 million worth of bonds to fund several projects. Most of them are non-motorized transportation projects. The one clear exception is a $25,000 project to replace gasoline-powered with electric-powered equipment.

Several agenda items related to the upcoming primary elections on May 3 were dispatched by county commissioners at their regular Wednesday morning meeting. Commissioners approved a revision to the set of polling locations—there will be 28 instead of 29 polling sites. So that voters know which of the polling

On Tuesday, Bloomington filed seven separate lawsuits as part of its effort to complete the annexations of seven different territories into the city—one lawsuit for each annexation area. All seven lawsuits appear to be essentially identical. They focus on the question of remonstrance waivers. Such waivers are legal documents