Dave Askins

On July 4, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and a rabbit walk into a bar. The barkeep says, “Wait a minute, I think one of you is a typo.” Downtown Bloomington, Indiana, July 2, 2021: The Rabbits of 6th Street. Click to view slideshow.

A key reason that Indiana governor Eric Holcomb this week issued another extension of his emergency health order is the low vaccination rate among state residents. The order itself  says: “Critically, only 48.1 percent of eligible Hoosiers are fully vaccinated and Indiana ranks 38th of the 50 states with

The word on Wednesday from Indiana’s department of natural resources (DNR) was that tests on dead songbirds, now reported in 50 of Indiana’s 92 counties, are still not conclusive. So state officials still don’t know whether the phenomenon is being caused by a disease or a toxin.

If Bloomington’s planned annexation is successful, the city will add to its population an estimated 14,000 people, several cows, a pig or two, and at least one chicken, whose “eyes don’t work any more.” For the hen’s owner, Susan Brackney, the longer phrase in place of

At Tuesday morning’s meeting of Bloomington and Monroe County’s five-member central dispatch policy board, assistant fire chief Jayme Washel reacted to a statement by dispatch director Amy Hensley, that the center has 11 vacant dispatcher positions. “I don’t know for sure, but 11 sounds like an

In the last couple of weeks, Monroe County and Bloomington have opted out of the state of Indiana’s process for allocation of opioid settlement money. It’s the allocation that might come, if a global settlement is made in a class action lawsuit that has been filed against several