Dave Askins

At a committee-of-the-whole meeting on Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council reviewed a new ordinance that would add nearly 80 new spots in the downtown and campus area where making a turn at a red light would be prohibited. Under Indiana law, vehicles are allowed to make a

Continuing on Wednesday was the local response to the killing of eight people in Atlanta last week. Six of the victims were Asian American women. After a Tuesday night online vigil that included recitation of original poetic works, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition organized a demonstration for early Wednesday afternoon

The local response to the killing of eight people in Atlanta last week included a virtual vigil on Tuesday night, held on the Zoom video conference platform. The title of the vigil was “Justice for AAPI” (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders). The victims of the shooting were nearly all Asian

Bloomington’s plan commission has set up Thursday’s 5:30 p.m special session as a meeting dedicated to just one of 10 ordinances currently under consideration to amend the city’s unified development ordinance (UDO). The ordinance would revise the way the UDO handles duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes—

In under three hours on Monday night, Bloomington’s plan commission dispatched five recommended ordinances that revise the text of the city’s basic land use document, which is the unified development ordinance (UDO). That makes eight ordinances so far that the commission has voted to recommend to the city

A requested rezone for 87 acres of land at the southern tip of Bloomington, next to I-69, was rejected by Bloomington’s city council at its meeting last Wednesday. The requested rezone by owner Bill Brown—from PUD (planned unit development) to MC (mixed-use corridor)—was based on