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‘In a community this size, there’s no such thing as a secret,’ mayor says as he tells staff, city what he’s facing, what's next for City Hall
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Libby German’s grandpa on police request for tips about fake social media account: ‘Give them pieces that may connect in the puzzle’ of 2017 Delphi…
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Questions raised about quiet, internal search that led trustees to Engineering Dean Mung Chiang as Purdue’s 13th president. Here's trustee's explanation
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CityBus drivers found a friend in the late Charles Tousant. On Saturday, they’ll give the Lafayette passenger they called ‘Okie Dokie’ one last ride to…
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Media group’s report of leaked chats includes conversations, videos and photos about white supremacist group’s propaganda and plans, including in…
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Finding Frescas: How a trailer park punk rock promoter became part of Dead Milkmen lore on one infamous, West Lafayette Fourth of July. Now he’s…
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When she couldn’t adjourn a contentious township budget meeting, Trustee Taletha Coles circled the room, trading accusations, making no promises to live…
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A thread: Long, lost joints in Lafayette/West Lafayette You know the drill: Never read the comments. (And then you do anyway, right? That’s on you.) But let’s give this a shot anyway: Substack – which…
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Plus, Mitch Daniels finds Purdue’s ‘happy place’ in his annual letter. Teising verdict: Guilty. And snapshots from a day during the COVID surge
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Charles Bookwalter said he was told not to jump the line in 4th District, says time’s now to make a conservative stand. Plus, another primary shapes up…
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Judge rules Wabash Twp. Trustee Jennifer Teising’s ‘nomadic RV lifestyle’ means she didn’t live here, means she wasn’t trustee. One foe: ‘Best late…
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Thread: The best ‘banned’ book you ever readAfter news dropped last week about a school district in Tennessee removed “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about th…
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