Dave Askins

Bloomington restaurants might be able to continue using a few blocks of Kirkwood Avenue as restaurant seating, through Oct. 31. That’s the effect of a resolution to be considered by Bloomington’s city council at its regular Wednesday meeting this week (June 2). In mid-December last year, the council

One of the most frequent complaints about Bloomington that I hear from folks is that there’s not enough barking. There’s just no place to bark, they say. And when you do find a place to bark, there’s a barking meter with jammed coin slots, so it accepts

Mid-afternoon on Saturday, I had a choice to make. But let’s not bury the lede with a bunch of boring background. Shortly after making the right choice, I was listening to two verses of Blaze Foley’s “Clay Pigeons.” The performance was by street buskers under the canopy of

Indiana University “certainly made the papers this week.” That was a remark from IU’s media relations director Chuck Carney, as he turned over the mic to the university’s vice president for strategic partnerships, Kirk White, during Friday’s weekly press conference with local leaders on pandemic response. But

On Friday, Indiana governor Eric Holcomb issued a new emergency health order that extends through June 30 the current one, which was set to expire at the end of May. That means many local governing bodies in Monroe County and Bloomington will continue for the next month to hold their

Owners of Bloomington rental properties with four or fewer units might have to start submitting “a fully executed occupancy affidavit” to the city’s housing and neighborhood development (HAND) department. Under a new ordinance proposed by the city’s administration, owners and tenants alike would need to sign statements about