Monthly Archives: January 2023

Indiana Dept. of Revenue Announces Changes for Tax Season

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Revenue (DOR) wants individuals to be aware of several tax changes as the 2023 tax filing season approaches. In addition, DOR wants to remind low-income Hoosiers who received Social Security income in 2022 and who meet other eligibility criteria that they will need to … Read More

IRT Opens New Year with “Flyin’ West”

INDIANAPOLIS — After producing the Midwest premiere of Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West in 1994, the Indiana Repertory Theatre will bring back this story of sisterhood, history, and perseverance this month as part of its 50th Anniversary Season. Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, the show will run on the OneAmerica Mainstage January … Read More

Ted Beard

This column first appeared in January 2012. With all of the end-of-the-year news we were all inundated with over the past few weeks, I caught a glimpse of a news tidbit that saddened me a little bit. Ted Beard died on December 30, 2011, two days before the New Year … Read More

100 Years Ago: Jan. 13-19

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, January 17, 1923: The city dog pound is no more and a whiff of chloroform emanates from the place as ill dogs or those for whom no home could be found are put to death. Former pound master Dr. Elizabeth Conger said it’s an act … Read More

Imagination

“Clop: What is he imagining?” My four-year-old granddaughter handed me a card she had found in the debris of my house. The card depicted a man on a roof, holding a shovel; the man was looking at clods of reindeer excrement. In the original card, which I had designed for … Read More