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A record day, by a long shot, on the COVID front

Holcomb sizes up COVID surge … and AG Todd Rokita fanning ‘flames of confusion’

Thread: Silver Linings, the 2021 Edition

Redistricting and the Tippecanoe Way

Lafayette man who lit fuse, tossed explosive at courthouse during 2020 riot heads to prison

Half-dozen projects in wings as WL mulls end of ‘moratorium’ on high-rises, student housing development near Purdue

Local redistricting maps revealed, tight deadline ahead of ’22 elections

Just ‘Nuts:’ Lafayette Jeff freshman’s viral TikTok score

Good day to be a Cole Cub

This and that … in a last-minute holiday week

Expectations high for new WL schools superintendent, from all sides

Thread: Building a Christmas playlist

Rep. Sheila Klinker on running in ‘22: ‘One more, and that’s probably it’

First Purdue prof picked to go into space, join Cradle of Astronauts

Go time, again, on more high-rises near Purdue?

Teising’s fate as Wabash Township trustee up to judge, definition of ‘residence’

$30M in READI funds gives Lafayette region plenty to ponder

Teising’s attorney: Not sure trustee will testify, as felony trial heads into final day

This and that as Lafayette gets READI (it hopes)

Wabash Twp. trustee’s trial: Phone records, receipts and plans to take off

Is Purdue really aiming to kill creative writing program?

Nearly 500 tips so far tied to ‘anthony_shots’ in Delphi murder case

IU Health Arnett calls in the National Guard in COVID surge

TSC ready for mask-optional, the minute state eases quarantine rules

Q&A with Gov. Holcomb: Vaccine mandates, Purdue Airport expansion, odds on Hoosier State line, school boards

‘anthony_shots’ clue in Delphi murders case leads of child solicitation case two counties away

Of course Santa knows Sheila Klinker … and more

COVID pleas, Purdue tuition freeze, Mackey masks and WL superintendent contract revealed

WL closes in on school superintendent choice, as petition calls for do-over

All about that ‘Second Wind’

After record 50 years, Ron Campbell reluctantly ready to retire from Lafayette City Council

Purdue selfies with White House turkeys … because, why not?

This and that … starring Mitch Daniels, Daddy shark

Thread: The best #GivingTuesday ever

Cover-to-cover on ‘The Last Waltz,’ Saturday with Frank Muffin

Fairfield board looks to bypass Trustee Taletha Coles on spending, sets up another confrontation

Field for new Senate seat keeps growing

A second Thanksgiving under COVID, a new LPD chief and more

Mitch Daniels’ deputy chief of staff at Purdue eyes Indiana Senate seat

Worried about schools? A peek inside what these teachers are trying to get done

Thread: Should Indiana legalize recreational use of marijuana?

SIA runs out of room, adding $52M warehouse across the road

The dog park West Lafayette loved too much, too fast

Democrats pick Snyder for city council seat, get open seat on Fairfield Twp. board

Cameras in courtroom test coming to Tippecanoe County

White House turkeys coming to Purdue? That’s not even the half of it

Todd Rokita to schools: Cut the Black Lives Matter references

Based in Lafayette thread: Best local TV commercial characters, local celebrity cameos ever

Where next for local teacher pay, after it hits new state $40K minimum?

TSC: End in sight for masks in classrooms – just not right now

Teising agrees to hire firefighters, just not ones she laid off

Q&A: Dr. Jerome Adams, from U.S. surgeon general to Purdue

Teising looks to take back firefighter discussion with town hall; files motion to dismiss lawsuit by former fire chief

Father-son team helps city top out $55M downtown complex

Challenger emerges for Tippecanoe County sheriff in 2022

From $65K to $80M, Community Foundation marks 50 years

Prof arrives with family ties to Uncle John Purdue

Court docs: Barnetts fight attempt to move Ukraine daughter’s neglect case to Indiana Supreme Court

WL mayor calls ban on facial recognition technology a swipe at city police, vetoes it right away

WL mayor calls ban on facial recognition technology a swipe at city police, vetoes it right away

County scraps $12.7M sewage treatment plan NE Tippecanoe residents said was too much

Wabash Twp. board lines up return of firefighters, whether Trustee Jennifer Teising on board or not

‘Welcome to the circus’: Fairfield Trustee Taletha Coles paces room as accusations fly

They’re going to put a park there in downtown Lafayette?

'Amazing.' Take a look inside the Greater Lafayette Career Academy

East Tipp’s new Indiana Teacher of the Year gets hero’s reception

Why a George Floyd mural, often vandalized, matters in downtown Lafayette

A thread: Best reads lately

Flights from Purdue to Florida? $25.3M terminal plan aims for return of commercial airlines

Under cloud of hostile workplace allegations, CityBus GM retires after 38 years

GE Aviation workers balk at company’s Biden-driven vaccine mandate

‘Me, Too’ moment keeps up pressure at Purdue

Final Jeopardy edition: Who was Lafayette?

An ‘Unsettled’ Q&A: Why Mitch Daniels loves this author coming to Purdue; climate scientists … not so much

Thread: Did you ever/would you ever fly out of Purdue Airport?

Indiana Supreme Court asked to step in on Ukraine orphan abandonment case in Lafayette

‘Maskless’ clerk lines up state Senate run in new WL-based district

Daniels: Saab jet fighter plant crucial for Discovery Park District, Purdue’s push for national security research

A $60M downtown Lafayette hotel?

This & that, starting with … a $60M hotel downtown?

Commercial flights at Purdue Airport, a semiconductor hub at heart of Greater Lafayette regional ask

A thread: What are you watching these days?

Purdue Convos goes all in for spring after going all out this fall

Families dedicate Abby and Libby Memorial Park, a labor of love near Delphi

Hot Box locked out in dispute with Muinzer, as Chauncey Hill Mall plans emerge

Fairfield trustee relents, lets go of indigent ashes once kept in her safe

The big return of the Feast

WL council, mayor face off on facial-recognition software ban

A thread: You know what this place needs is ...

Accusations fly as WL nixes plan to replace Purdue’s ATO house

This and that: Not 1, but 2 Popeyes on the way

Purdue dedicates dorms named for Parker sisters, who fought Purdue to integrate housing in 1947

Purdue trustees face a #MeToo moment

Chauncey Hill Mall: Latest development plans emerge near Purdue. And it’s big. Really big

Coming soon: A new People’s taproom; former Surgeon Gen. Jerome Adams to Purdue; COVID relief, maybe, for hospitals

Purdue’s military-research push leads to Space Force partnership

Coles: ‘Once I get that budget, I don’t need them, again’

Ready for ‘hell:’ Fairfield trustee strikes defiant pose against allegations galore

Fairfield Trustee Taletha Coles ready to release indigent residents’ ashes stored in her safe

This & that: TSC teacher in Top 3. Goodbye, Columbus Day in WL? Boosters ready at health department

Push buttons and paper trails: First impressions of Tippecanoe Co.’s new vote machines

‘My generation failed:’ Alting agrees to carry WL students' climate bills

Q&A: Justin Willman and the never-ending How Did You Do That?

Purdue frat: 74% rent hike sent ATO packing to clear way for demolition

Fairfield board to Trustee Taletha Coles: Show us the money … and credit card receipts, etc.

Redistricting scrambles TippCo, Senate districts safer red. CityBus sends GM home amid workplace hostility claims

Democrats and the redistricting blues

Purdue faculty blasts trustees over civics requirement

A thread: That one, can’t-miss menu item in Lafayette/West Lafayette

Wabash Twp. Trustee Teising waives jury trial after judge rejects change of venue

Purdue goes NIMBY to save frat house from demolition

Local Boy Scouts ready to put $1.1M toward national sex abuse settlement

New Statehouse district maps, familiar complaints: Takeaways for Tippecanoe County

A 2nd Mary Lou Donuts location? Another Purdue enrollment record? COVID gives Ross-Ade a pass? They say it’s all true

A roundabout on 600 North near Harrison? Maybe so…

Lafayette businesses: Wait and see on Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate

A thread: Where you were on 9/11, where you are today

‘Flying blind:’ Fairfield board turns to public records request to get answers out of Trustee Taletha Coles

TSC mask protest, again. Axl Rose loves Arni’s. Doc based on Purdue prof’s ‘Blood Brothers’ debuts on Netflix

A thread: Long, lost joints in Lafayette/West Lafayette

Will a $100 vax incentive have a county commissioner eating crow?

$100 coming for county employees who get COVID shot. St. Mary hill house stuck on endangered list

This’ll be the day … Don McLean talks ‘American Pie,' at 50, with North White students

Bill Kisinger takes a bow after 32 years conducting Lafayette Citizens Band

Lafayette hospitals at a pandemic breaking point? Doctor: ‘We’re there’

White Sox help returning Lafayette soldier surprise family in middle of the 3rd

Sen. Young on Biden's exit plan, Americans left in Afghanistan: ‘Unforgivable’

Traffic lights for bikes on State St. A new art museum on the Wabash. A COVID return to virtual meetings in WL. And listeners’ last ditch effort for WBAA

Crews rally after George Floyd mural hit for 5th time. WL, county consider sick time changes for unvaccinated

Lafayette hospitals: ‘We’re exhausted.’ Wabash Twp. trustee court drama, one more round

Bernie Sanders tells overflow crowd at Amphitheater: ‘Fight like hell’ for progressive, $3.5T bill

Knapptronix, 7th local brewery, starts pouring Saturday in downtown. Greater Lafayette named tops by Indiana Chamber. A tribute to Feast, Fiddlers founder Bill Baugh

Amphitheater preps for Bernie Sanders. Parents win ruling in Ukraine girl’s neglect case. How a township trustee’s drink landed a fundraiser

How Purdue Convos is going live, again. Wabash trustee’s trial won't move. As TSC masks up, what private schools are doing

WL schools set superintendent search timeline. Purdue opens semester at 79% vax rate. Daniels welcomes huge frosh class

TSC grumbles, rethinks, requires masks in classrooms after quarantines spike

With record freshman class, how Purdue converts University Church into campus’ 6th biggest lecture hall. TSC reopens mask question

TSC’s mask-optional rule leads to big quarantines, health dept says

Memories of a ‘badass’ who ran Main Street Books. Bernie Sanders coming to town. Wabash Trustee Teising sued … again

Let’s try this again: Robert Cray in downtown Lafayette. A Q&A

Can Wabash Twp. trustee, board figure out fire protection? School quarantines start one week into class

Purdue vax rate hits 75%. Why Chauncey Ave. is torn up. Peek inside Purdue Memorial Union renovations

State auditing Fairfield Twp., Trustee Taletha Coles comes out swinging. Plus: Anti-mask crowd stays vigilant, commissioners still hesitant on mandate

Meet Sharita Ware, Indiana teacher of the year finalist at East Tipp Middle

A dedicated moment to reflect on the decent legacy of Mayor Sonya Margerum

UPDATE: Fairfield trustee says she has indigent ashes. Funeral home asks her to give back cremains

Indigent ashes into diamonds at Fairfield Township? Funeral home asks trustee to give back cremains

Waves of mask debate roll over TSC, again. Commissioners not ready for mandate. Hospitals cancel procedures as COVID surges

Receipts, questions pile up for Fairfield Twp. Trustee Taletha Coles

LSC board adjourns rather than deal with parents who won't mask up

Apartment project across from Columbian Park? Neighborhood’s not happy

Lawmakers come to Lafayette to listen, voters ask if rigged redistricting in the cards, anyway

Mask rules have TSC, LSC parents looking to transfer kids before school starts

‘Unvaccinated a--holes?’ West Lafayette mayor says sorry

WL mayor: Don’t be one of those ‘unvaccinated a--holes’

TSC bucks school trend, votes down mask requirements

Can Jennifer Teising get a fair trial? LSC next to mask up. And about that Tate & Lyle smell

Masks back on in WL schools. 4.8M take TikTok tour of tight Purdue dorm space. Purdue bets on military research with Rolls-Royce

As you watched Wabash Township, tensions brewed next door in Fairfield Township

Why Lafayette’s ready to ditch massage parlor rules. Purdue masks up; K-12 schools next?

This and that: WL masks up, again. IU adjusts vax rules. All those Purdue Golden tickets. And more

COVID cases strain Lafayette hospitals again, as vax skeptics hold out

Tippecanoe health doc calls for masks in schools. Fight coming?

Even silent, Wabash Trustee Teising stirs drama at budget meeting

41 years, 5 Lafayette newsrooms later, Chris Morisse Vizza signs off

2nd new grocery ready to bloom in downtown Lafayette

Purdue’s $9,992 Wonka vax reward: 1 down, 9 to go

Wabash Township firefighters abandon suit against trustee. New music from CoyoteBear. And, Columbian Park Zoo’s penguins … finally

Wolfies owner’s U-turn; Purdue vax numbers; Star City Jazz & Blues is back

Campus vaccine requirement survives; Ivy Tech Lafayette finds new chancellor

Behind the music: The Jeff92 edition

Did WL schools violate open door law, hide diversity task force work?

Masks or no masks in schools: Parents push TSC, WL both directions

What a dorm room looks like as Purdue squeezes in record freshman class

Schools, masks and vax: How TSC, LSC, WL, Purdue reopening plans compare

Firefighters ‘simply struggling’ to respond to calls as Wabash Township stalemate hits 2 weeks

LPD cops cleared second time in K9 mauling case

First pitch a dream realized at Abby and Libby Memorial Park near Delphi

WFYI Q&A: Our plans for Purdue's WBAA. Plus, artist Cobré's latest mural in the works near downtown

New Bistro Market bets on downtown. New June IND track debuts here

‘Save WBAA’ pleas fail, Purdue starts transfer to Indy’s WFYI

Last call for WBAA, public radio from Purdue

Women’s Ride’s ‘no judgment’ cycling community grows with new scholarships

Ban on facial-recognition tech coming for West Lafayette police?

‘Festooned’ farewell to a Ninth Street Hill legend

Purdue relocating 1938 barn to campus for a distillery, brewery

Purdue dumps WBAA. Who will blink first in Wabash Township Fire stalemate?

Exit interview: Before West Lafayette Supt. Rocky Killion ‘disappears’

Firefighters walk away rather than work with Wabash Township trustee. What now?

Wabash Township saga comes to a head Tuesday

K9 mauling: Judge tosses special prosecutor's report that cleared LPD officers

Firefighters ask judge for injunction to stop trustee's layoffs next week

One last CityBus ride for ‘Okie Dokie’

Wabash Trustee Jennifer Teising interview: ‘This is a created crisis’

Trustee goes for a drink, as board says it’s ready to take over fire department

Chance for a ‘change of heart’ in Wabash Township fire standoff?

What am I doing here? What are you doing here?

This & that: A quake; a new Juneteenth; remembering a Purdue Nobel winner

Alting calls Statehouse meeting to deal with Wabash Township mess, save firefighter jobs

Wabash trustee: Hard no on township offer, full-time firefighters still will be laid off

No charges for LPD officers after K9 mauls man’s neck in 2020 arrest, special prosecutor says

Wabash Trustee Jennifer Teising finds no allies, as firefighters on brink of layoffs

Campus politics and Purdue’s new civics graduation requirement

The Return of Mosey: Drumroll, please, downtown Lafayette

How many dogs, how many cats? Lafayette plan: No limit

Purdue landmark, saved and out of storage, heads inside Memorial Union renovation

‘So, this just happened at Arby’s’: Order up, a slur during Pride Month

West Lafayette mask fines off the books; Faith Church rehab rezone faces not-in-my-backyard

$98M in COVID relief coming to cities, schools in Tippecanoe Co. What’s the plan?

West Lafayette knows replacing school Supt. Rocky Killion no sure bet

This Bud’s for the vaccinated. So many shots to go before that first beer

West Lafayette garbageman legend calls it a career, 100 million pounds later

Welcome to Loeb Stadium, Part II: Lafayette Aviators’ turn

Poppies and the art of gratitude, resilience this Memorial Day

Commotion in (and out of) Wabash Township: A trustee and ‘The Tippecanoe Way’

The Vax Sweepstakes at Purdue and IU: Keeping score

Todd Rokita rips IU, Purdue, but will schools have to change student vaccination plans?

As GOP attacks IU’s vaccine requirement, how Mitch Daniels and Purdue thread the needle

Classic U.S. 52 diner salvaged, will be restored, reopened in new spot

The great Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snub mixtape

A dedicated Tippecanoe Co. bike trail, top to bottom? Yes, please. But where?

Mitch Daniels calls shotgun on Purdue's ‘couch cart,' delivers told-you-so on calculated campus reopening risks

'How big,' Purdue? Record 10K+ freshmen on their way

Fleur-de-lis intersection blooms again as Lafayette prepares artist tribute at 10th and Main

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