Monthly Archives: January 2025

100 Years Ago This Week: Jan. 3-9

January 2, 2025 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, January 7, 1925: The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has requested a lighting engineer of a large eastern electric corporation to make a survey of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument and determine the cost of flood lighting after the Monument board of control promised to … Read More

Holiday Cookies

January 2, 2025 | by CJ Woods III

My doorbell rang on December 23, 2024, and as promised, my friend Mary Hannah Wilson “dropped off” something to me. The “something” was a gaily decorated tin with “Happy Holidays” on the lid. The Gingerbread Man joined with other cookies to surround a red cup with “Joy” written across the … Read More

The Last of the Radium Girls

January 2, 2025 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in Jan. 2015. The year 2014 has come and gone and along with it, the passing of many notables whose time on this earth has run out. Lost among them is a woman you may have never heard of. Mae Keane died this year. She was … Read More

State Announces Investments in Housing Stability

January 1, 2025 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) Board of Directors recently announced multiple awards directed at improving housing stability for Hoosiers. The Board allocated $2,256,800 to help operate shelters and provide essential services to shelter residents, $110,000 to allow qualified agencies to provide services and case management … Read More