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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.

B Square Elsewhere: Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana

B Square Elsewhere: Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana

On Jan. 3, 2019 the Haywood Library (in Haywood, California) tweeted a link to a poem by Philip Appleman called “To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year.” The library’s “poem of the day” for the third day of the year is from

Square Spots: Tiny Mobile House

Square Spots: Tiny Mobile House

Corner of East 6th and Madison: Tiny house on wheels spotted in the wild – perhaps the handiwork of Loren Wood Builders? –

2019 edition of Bloomington’s city council will be the second-most experienced ever

The nine current members of the Bloomington, Indiana, city council will start 2019 with 95 years of collective experience, which makes it the second-most experienced council ever. It’s seven years fewer than that of the council’s 2017 edition, which was the most experienced one in Bloomington’s