Dave Askins

Last year’s lead art for The B Square’s look ahead to 2021 featured this caption: “These numerals began life as a photograph of the sidewalk around the courthouse square in downtown Bloomington, where the crows like to crap. It was that kind of year.” Arguably a worse year

Kristina Box, the health commissioner for the state of Indiana, warned at a Wednesday news conference about the looming impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Box put it this way: “We expect to see a very steep rise in cases over the next several weeks.” On Thursday, the

At a Wednesday afternoon news conference, Indiana governor Eric Holcomb announced he had extended his emergency health order another month. It allows local units of government to impose their own more restrictive regulations to try to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus. But the governor’s order does

At noon on Jan. 6, the Bloomington city council’s transportation committee is scheduled to meet to continue its work on allocating money to add new sidewalks and traffic calming to the city’s street network. Since 2007, a total of about $4 million has been allocated for new sidewalk

A week before Christmas, both major political parties made local news with their caucuses. Republicans elected 18-year-old Taylor Bryant as Monroe County Republican Party chair. Bryant became the youngest county chair ever for Monroe County and probably the state of Indiana. At their caucus, Democrats chose Jennifer Crossley

The “Happy New Year” message in this column is a bit premature, because New Year’s Day 2022 is still nearly a week away. But it’s provided early, so that B Square readers have time to study these letters and try to discern their origin, without any time pressure.