Dave Askins

When Bloomington’s common council meets on Wednesday in regular session for the first time since June 12, the city’s nine elected representatives will confront for the fifth time a package of legislation that regulates shared-use (and other) e-scooters. Local scooter laws are likely to be the

On Wednesday (July 31, 2019) Bloomington’s city council will consider the first reading of a rezoning request from the Collegiate Development Group to build an 820-bedroom student housing project on North Walnut Street at the site of the current Motel 6. One point likely to be raised is

New building projects in Bloomington can be controversial, especially when the proposed new apartments are marketed to students at Indiana University. Typical for such projects are higher numbers of bedrooms for each apartment. A recently proposed 820-bedroom housing development on North Walnut, at the current Motel 6 site, prompted

After a couple of quiet months, late July has brought some activity in the legal proceedings about the state legislature’s enactment of a 2017 law, as a part of the biennial budget bill. The law blocked specifically Bloomington’s attempt in 2017 to annex some land into the city.

Not counting any of the half dozen water main breaks in July, the city of Bloomington has tallied 44 breaks so far in 2019. Is that a big number? Yes, based on the number of breaks over the last six years that are logged in the dataset posted on the