Dave Askins

Starting Monday, scheduled bus service on several Bloomington Transit fixed routes are ending a couple hours earlier. By around 9:30 p.m. on Monday, the big 40-foot buses on Routes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 had ended their runs for the day. But Bloomington residents could still

The word “transparency” gets bandied around a lot by local government officials—not just here in Bloomington. It’s a vague concept. Just because some local government news breaks that was unforeseen by a journalist or the public does not necessarily mean a failure on the government’s part. Sometimes

Friday morning’s Supreme Court of the United States ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade, prompted around 100 people to demonstrate later that evening, at the southeast corner of the Monroe County courthouse square, in downtown Bloomington. The ruling also prompted a one-man demonstration the following day at Bloomington’

At a meeting on Friday , a question from a new member of Monroe County’s convention and visitors commission (CVC) got to the heart of a lingering issue for the Bloomington area local government officials. “It’s my understanding that we’re looking to evaluate whether this convention center is…

Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) is hoping that a $12,000 contract with Ann-Kriss, Inc.—to paint and seal some brick and concrete surfaces in an old industrial building—will wrap up an issue with lingering odor that has beleaguered part of the roughly $5.5 million adaptive reuse

By the end of summer, all but three of the buildings on a central Bloomington block, near the former IU Health hospital site, are set to be demolished. It’s the area that has been named the Hopewell neighborhood. On Tuesday evening, Bloomington’s board of public works, as well