Tag: indiana
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It’s Boogie time in B-Town
Bloomington Boogies returns with a celebration of keyboard beauty and energy By Mike Leonard The Lotus World Music & Arts Festival has rightly earned the admiration and support of Bloomington area residents and beyond by annually bringing a well-curated mixture of world music and culture…
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Does America need this addition to the White House?
The Finest Ballroom/Military Complex Anywhere in the World By Mike Leonard Like most sane people, I’m amazed by all things Trump, so I need to be specific here. His adoration of grand and gilded material goods. Not governance, nor character. Nor human decency. A gilded…
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The Waterboard ’em Trustee
Former sportscaster Sage Steele has a lot of explainin’ to do By Mike Leonard Unfit for duty Indiana University graduate Sage Steele made a name for herself as a sports broadcaster and earned an anchor spot on ESPN for her talents in talking about sports…
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The Beginning and End of the McKinney Fountain
The McKinney fountain was a monumental symphony of splashing water inside the bustling Indiana University campus By Mike Leonard A bittersweet back to school experience awaits students, faculty, staff and the public familiar with the McKinney fountain in front of the Simon Music Center on…
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This is What a Coup Looks Like
Those Tatterdemalion Thugs By Dennis Reardon, guest columnist We have a munificently funded private Executive army invading the capitals of states that didn’t vote for Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump. I refrain from calling ICE Trump’s Gestapo only because the Nazi Gestapo was a highly-trained and well-disciplined…
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Bloomington’s Brad Meyer emerges as the Democrats’ best hope for the Ninth District
He quit his job to do this By Mike Leonard Dee Owens was having coffee at Hive restaurant with her friend, Regina Moore, when she noticed another friend having a conversation with a gentleman across the room. ‘Who’s he?’ she wondered. On the way out…
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Jewish Studies’ 180 flip
IU’s sledgehammer approach to changing core values of the university is broader, deeper, and more impactful than many realize. Yet. By Mike Leonard Much of what is happening at IU is being carried out in the darkness behind the Sample Gates entryway of the Bloomington…
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You Wanna Boogie?Boogie Woogie Woogie With Me
Singer/songwriter John Hartford made up that line, and you can drop it if you like at this year’s Bloomington Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Festival. By Mike Leonard Hartford’s little ditty paid homage to the playful double-entendre tunes of jazz and blues and whatever your…
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The decline of a great university
THE ACADEMY IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT TO THE IU TRUSTEES AND STATE GOVERNMENT By Mike Leonard SUVs blowing through stop signs. Cars going the wrong way on one-way streets. Students playing drinking games with ping pong balls in their front yards. It’s “Welcome Back” time…