Dave Askins

On June 10 this year, Bloomington’s city council decided to hire then-deputy council administrator/attorney Stephen Lucas to replace the retiring Dan Sherman. Lucas had been serving as Sherman’s deputy for about nine months. Just after the meeting when the council voted to hire Lucas, The Square

An ordinance that establishes a new city seal for Bloomington does not appear on the city council’s regular meeting agenda for Wednesday, Dec. 2. Yet that is the date when it was proposed by the city clerk to be effective. Those two morsels make for some pretty thin civic

At a work session held on Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, Monroe County councilors took care of some year-end appropriations, and talked with county commissioners about next year’s priorities. A vote on extra appropriation to cover legal fees, amended by councilors from $30,000 to $18,126, was split

[This cartoon was “drawn” about 10 years ago for The Ann Arbor Chronicle. It ran last year in The Square Beacon, too. So it’s consistent with the Thanksgiving tradition of leftovers.]

Highlights from Wednesday’s press conference of local leaders on COVID-19 pandemic response included a couple of takeaways. First, when the vaccine starts to arrive locally, expected in mid-December, that’s not the end of the COVID-19 marathon. Second, part of what it means to keep running

From 2016 to 2020, not a lot changed in the general election results in the state of Indiana for the top of the ticket. In the Hoosier state, Republican Donald Trump had 57.1 percent of the vote against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Against Joe Biden, Trump tallied about the same