IU experts say economic effects of COVID-19 will hit small businesses, hospitality industry hardest
Economic difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be especially hard on small businesses and the hospitality industry, IU experts said.
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Economic difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be especially hard on small businesses and the hospitality industry, IU experts said.
The Bloomington City Council approved using funds from the Food and Beverage Tax Fund to help alleviate some financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on local businesses Tuesday. The appropriation was passed 9-0.
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With the spread of COVID-19 and a stay-at-home order in Indiana, those who run the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market had to get creative about how vendors can sell their products.
A Bloomington Airbnb host is renting out seven bedrooms for free to medical staff members who live with immunocompromised people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Eric Holcomb, state health officials and other leaders discussed Indiana’s response to the novel coronavirus at a press conference Monday.
La Una Cantina opened its doors Tuesday for the first time.
Restaurants and businesses have been opening in Bloomington faster than people can keep track. It’s even hard for the Chamber of Commerce to keep track of all the places opening around the city.
IU alumnus Bob Chapek was named the CEO of Disney after former CEO Bob Iger stepped down Tuesday. Iger will remain the company’s executive chairman through December 2021, according to a Walt Disney Company press release.
Papa John’s founder and former CEO John Schnatter vowed there would be a “day of reckoning” after leaving the company in response to reports he used a racial slur during a conference call.
This story has been updated at 3:06 p.m. Feb. 16
Discussions about the cost of towing led to shouting from towing company owners and attempts to cut off council members mid-sentence Wednesday night, with the meeting lasting more than three hours.
Bloomington’s Trailhead Pizzeria reopened in late January, nearly five months after a driver veered off a curve on State Road 446 and smashed through the front of the family-owned restaurant.
Safety Escort has been an official IU service since 1994. The staff is working on changes to help make it better for students.
Around 50 Bloomington residents gathered Tuesday at City Hall to listen to speakers talk about local black-owned businesses and the health of black people as part of the State of the Black Community address.
The Standard Grain Restaurant is set to open with a Valentine’s Sweetheart Dinner on Feb. 14. The restaurant will be located at 403 N. Walnut St., the former location of an event center called Topo’s 403.
Bloomington smoke and vape stores are seeing an increase in underage customers trying to buy tobacco products with fake IDs since a new federal law pushed the legal buying age to 21 in December.
Inside Lucky’s Market are empty coffee bean and tea dispensers, bare aisles of hard liquor and deli coolers stripped down to expensive cheese wheels. Not much is left two weeks before the store's doors close permanently.
Night Moves, the only strip club in Bloomington, opened the doors to its new location Thursday evening at 3160 S. Walnut St. The club is for the old and the young, the lonely and the horny.
The Pipsqueakery, a Bloomington animal shelter that rehabilitates small animals and rodents is building an expansion to house hundreds more animals.