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Dave Askins

Dave Askins

Bloomington, Indiana

Dave Askins is editor and publisher of The B Square Bulletin. A Hoosier native with a background in math and linguistics, he previously co-founded the Ann Arbor Chronicle with his wife, Mary Morgan.

Bloomington city council to recognize GOP party chair’s choice for transit board seat, an appointment the council is supposed to make

Bloomington city council to recognize GOP party chair’s choice for transit board seat, an appointment the council is supposed to make

In a press release issued in mid-November, GOP Monroe County chair William Ellis announced he had appointed Doug Horn, a Bloomington businessman and former Monroe County plan commissioner, to the five-member, partisan-balanced Bloomington Transit board. It’s an appointment that is normally supposed to be made by

Bloomington RDC on path to keep hospital’s Kohr building for now, OKs lease offerings for ground floor of new parking garages at $20/sf minimum

Bloomington RDC on path to keep hospital’s Kohr building for now, OKs lease offerings for ground floor of new parking garages at $20/sf minimum

At its regular meeting on Monday, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) kept on a course that would preserve the Kohr Administration Center building as part of the IU Health hospital site at 1st and Rogers streets. The RDC’s vote came in the context of a $6.5 million real

Bloomington finalizing digital equity plan, with recommendation for new staff position

Bloomington finalizing digital equity plan, with recommendation for new staff position

At a sparsely attended public meeting last Tuesday, Bloomington’s IT director, Rick Dietz and consultants from Maryland-based CTC Technology and Energy made themselves available for feedback on the city’s draft digital equity strategic plan. The introduction to the plan describes “digital equity” as a situation where “all

COVID-19 Update | First vaccine doses a week away, as cases, deaths, positivity rates make hospital capacity the story of the day: “We haven’t seen a decrease in patients that we’re hoping to see.”

COVID-19 Update | First vaccine doses a week away, as cases, deaths, positivity rates make hospital capacity the story of the day: “We haven’t seen a decrease in patients that we’re hoping to see.”

Eighty-three percent of IU Health system’s intensive care unit (ICU) beds are filled statewide, but not all of them with COVID-19 patients. That’s according to Brian Shockney, president of IU Health’s south central region, speaking at Friday’s weekly press conference of local leaders to

Sidewalk committee to talk about equity at Dec. 15 meeting

Sidewalk committee to talk about equity at Dec. 15 meeting

One of the outcomes of Thursday’s meeting held by the Bloomington city council’s sidewalk committee was the addition of an agenda item to the four-member group’s next meeting, on Dec. 15. At the mid-December meeting, the committee will take up the question of its role

New Hoosier daily high of 8,514 coronavirus cases, city of Bloomington employees contribute to count

New Hoosier daily high of 8,514 coronavirus cases, city of Bloomington employees contribute to count

Through Nov. 14, the city of Bloomington had logged 17 confirmed coronavirus cases among its employees. On Thursday, the city issued two separate press releases announcing the 35th and 36th positive tests among city employees. That made for 19 cases in the last 19 days. On Wednesday night, in remarks

Cibor bloomerangs in order to head up new city engineering department

Cibor bloomerangs in order to head up new city engineering department

At its Nov. 18 meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved the creation of a new engineering department It amounted to a statutory legal formality, after a new department was included in the structure of the 2021 budget, which was adopted by the city council in mid-October. The city now