Dave Askins

Bloomington’s proposed annexation plan will be getting scrutiny from a financial consultant hired by Monroe County. At their weekly meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners approved an agreement with Baker Tilly US, for “review and analysis of the city of Bloomington’s annexation fiscal plan.” The not-to-exceed amount

By December 2022, Bloomington is expecting to see completed construction of Retreat at the Switchyard, a new housing project with 48 apartments designated as affordable. The project is a 64-unit, 5-story building with first-floor retail space at the 1.5- acre site of the former Night Moves

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

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

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