In an economy that requires more advanced skills than ever, millions of Americans still struggle with the basics: reading, writing and arithmetic. In one small Indiana community, volunteers are working to change that and give help to adult students.
Read more →Apple co-founder and long-time CEO Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011 after a long bout with pancreatic cancer that ultimately resulted in respiratory failure. Within hours, cartoonists and comics across the globe began publishing comics about the late Mr. Jobs. Here is a collection of some of the more prominent comics, with attribution to their original source.
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The Cultural Trail was touted as an economic tool, and it might be working.
In 2007 a group of Indianapolis residents gathered to start construction on what would become an eight mile hub for Indianapolis’ public greenway system. The Indianapolis Cultural Trail would link all of the cultural districts around town, like Fountain Square, Mass Ave., The Wholesale District, Indiana Ave. and IUPUI and White River State Park. It would also link into the Monon Trail for access to Broad Ripple and the north side of town.
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A journey to find one young homeless boy shows me another culture.
A few weeks ago I was in Downtown Indianapolis visiting a friend for lunch. After I left I biked along south Meridian Street in the economic center of Indiana. Among all the hustle and bustle of the urban core sat a young man with his dog, a golden lab that was probably only a year or two old. He asked me for change, like the panhandlers Downtown are prone to do, and I replied that I didn’t have any cash with me, which was the truth.
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