Dave Askins

If you had to hang nine red globes on a Christmas tree, one for each Bloomington city councilmember, how would you approach that task? What if you had to make the distance between councilmembers on the tree show how close they are politically—at least when it comes to their

By mid-afternoon on Thursday, workers had completed the installation of the colorful quilt-patterned panels on three sides of the new 4th Street parking garage in downtown Bloomington. As they were packing up their gear, the crew from Ignition Arts, which did the fabrication and installation of the piece,

Indiana’s COVID-19 dashboard recorded 100 positive cases for Monroe County on Tuesday, Dec. 21. That’s the highest daily total the county has seen since early January. It’s the 19th time Monroe County has hit triple digits for a day, since the county’s first positive case

On Tuesday night, Monroe county councilors stood by the compensation for the three county commissioners that they had already approved on the last day of November as a part of the 2022 salary ordinance. The already-adopted salary ordinance for 2022 specifies $48,886 for each of the three commissioners,

On Monday, two multimodal paths that make connections in the north part of town got a greenlight for their next phases: the acquisition of right-of-way from owners of property along the routes. In this context, “multimodal” means the facility is engineered for pedestrians and bicyclists. The approvals from

At a joint meeting of the Monroe County election board and county commissioners on Monday, election board members voted 3-0 to accept the use of the former NAPA auto parts building at 3rd and Walnut streets for some election functions. The motion also included the acceptance of the north