Celebrating the birthday of the pride of Peru, Indiana, our own Cole Porter.
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Cardinals continue to abide by the terms of our new pact: I don’t watch; they don’t lose.
This Saturday….the National Building Arts Center‘s monthly tour. Come visit America’s most astonishing collection: more than 150,000 architectural artifacts, from decorative bricks to entire facades.
Compelling read from the great Indiana Daily Student on the everyday impact of 18 mo of Trump immigration enforcement--at home, at the doctor, in church--on residents of one small midwestern city.
As you consider this week's puzzle, note that like our last (Sonoma) this appears to be a planned, not organic, town. Scale of central bldgs. suggests new development...but houses appear narrow and crowded like an old city. Lastly there's that white strip at bottom. What's going on?
Let’s see…where were we?
Oh right. Somalis.
My Sopranos reboot is gonna require a serious rewrite.
About time for a new edition of our Know Your Cities contest…so far you’ve seen Pittsburgh, Lyon, El Paso, Derry, and Sonoma. Segue to today’s puzzle not obvious but still present. So…know your city?
On this day in 1973, playwright William Inge took his life.
Spent 1943-50 in St. Louis; wrote "Come Back, Little Sheba" while teaching drama at Washington University. Went on to write "Picnic," "Bus Stop," many more...
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A student filed an anonymous complaint against Adams under an Indiana law penalizing faculty found not to be presenting diverse viewpoints in class.
About time for a new edition of our Know Your Cities contest…so far you’ve seen Pittsburgh, Lyon, El Paso, Derry, and Sonoma. Segue to today’s puzzle not obvious but still present. So…know your city?
At least four people were detained in Bloomington for immigration reasons in April 2025.
New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change
“We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
Trump has pardoned Stephen Buyer, the former Indiana congressman who was convicted of insider trading. A jury found Buyer guilty of using nonpublic information to profit from stock trades, and he was sentenced to federal prison.
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
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Playwright William Inge, Oscar-winning Splendor in the Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Picnic, Bus Stop, taught at Washington University.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of Every child deserves a safe and nurturing hom...
