Dave Askins

Getting a reprieve from demolition on Thursday night was the building on the 400 block of South Walnut Street in Bloomington, just north of Seminary Park, which most recently was home to The Player’s Pub. A vote by the city’s historic preservation commission (HPC) to end the 90-

At its meeting on Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council completed its annual adjustment to the public safety local income tax (PS-LIT) rate. The total rate that residents of Monroe County pay on their income for public safety stays the same, which is 0.25 percent. But the way the

In remarks made at the start of Bloomington’s Wednesday city council meeting, president Steve Volan suggested that the city street known as Jordan Avenue be renamed as Taliaferro Avenue, or possibly Taliaferro Way. The Taliaferros, George and Viola, were a Bloomington couple who each blazed trails of their own.

At its meeting last Wednesday (Sept. 30), Monroe County commissioners approved a resolution that sets out the process for Washington Township to join the Monroe Fire Protection District (MFPD). A series of three public meetings about the proposal, to be conducted on the Zoom video conferencing platform, have been scheduled.

Last week, Bloomington’s city council meeting grew a bit contentious when it was revealed that the city’s administration has a notion to rename the planning and transportation department. The idea is to eliminate “and transportation” from the department’s name. I made a Shakespearean joke of it: A

Tuesday morning, Oct. 6, saw a long line of voters in downtown Bloomington. It stretched south down the block from Election Central, at the corner of 7th and Madison, around the corner where the former La Vie en Rose Cafe stands, west along 6th Street, nearly to Rogers Street. Tuesday