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Streets to Home Initiative ignores where homelessness begins

Mandi Patterson - June 24, 2025

On June 10, Indianapolis city officials announced an $8.1 million plan to eliminate street homelessness. Phase One of the Streets to Home Initiative will...

Sports

Dear Tyrese

NORAL PARHAM - June 24, 2025

The air, usually a whirr of anticipation, crackled with a unique, almost palpable tension on June 22. Game 7 of the NBA Finals. For all...

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The story remains … Pass it on

SHEILA P. SPENCER - June 20, 2025

“Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down...

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Pacers will have to pay more than they want to resign Turner

DANNY BRIDGES - June 20, 2025

There's probably nobody in central Indiana who wants to think about it during the NBA Finals. Still, it's a topic that the Indiana Pacers...

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Breaking down the GOP budget

ANDRE CARSON - June 20, 2025

At the end of May, House Republicans pushed through Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and it is now being considered in the Senate, but there...

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Indecision and inertia in the Democratic Party

LARRY SMITH - June 20, 2025

Following Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential bid (which came after several pundits and pollsters had predicted his victory), the Republican National Committee commissioned the...

Sports

Death of the super team

NORAL PARHAM - June 17, 2025

Pour one out for the super team, my friends. Seriously, grab your nearest beverage, raise it high and toast to the end of an era...

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Ending religious abuse: I am a survivor of religious trauma

Mandi Patterson - June 13, 2025

Yes, I am still one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Though popular opinion may proclaim something different. I am not an apostate — someone who is against...

Community Voices

Father’s Day

LARRY SMITH - June 13, 2025

There is a familiar joke that suggests that Hallmark invented holidays in order to sell a perpetually increasing number of greeting cards. While that tongue-in-cheek...

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Living with Alzheimer’s: A caregiver’s journey of love, loss and hope

Mandi Patterson - June 13, 2025

My journey with Alzheimer’s and dementia spans more than 15 years, two generations, and countless memories that were both heartbreaking and heartwarming. I’ve lost...

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