The New Hoosier Farmer: Is Kind of a Big Deal
Having a 20,000-acre spread, one of the largest farms in one of the nation’s most productive farm states, buys some clout.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Illuminates Clowes Hall
His words were perhaps revelatory on the subject of inclusion—by God and by fellow humans—of all people, regardless of race, socio-economic status, religion, and even sexual orientation.
Postscript: Marilyn Schultz Opens Her Hate Mail
In her records, she found a single manila folder containing a dozen unopened letters, postmarked nearly 40 years earlier, that she had long forgotten. ... “Women of my generation were told to go to college and get your ‘MRS’ degree. It’s hard [for young people] to understand how radical it was to think a woman could be a doctor, a lawyer, or a legislator.'"
What I Know: Coby Palmer
Best known as one of Indy's top florists, he helped bring the city's LGBT festival out of the closet.
Profile: Glenda Ritz Doesn't Want to Hear It!
Inside Crooked Creek Elementary School’s cafeteria, Glenda Ritz wielded a scalpel, in-structing about 100 fourth-graders in the art of dissecting a spiny dogfish shark. The smell of the dead specimens, spread out on metal trays on top of blue table covers, filled the air. It was a lesson she had delivered—and a procedure she’d performed—more than a dozen times throughout her 33-year teaching career.
Learning Curve: A Range of Hoosiers Weigh In on Glenda Ritz
With all the noise surrounding new Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, will her agenda of slowing down reforms advance? Or is her voice—and those of her supporters—bound to get drowned out?