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Beckwith on new, redistricting-driven Deery-Copenhaver primary: ‘I’m on a mission now’
Lieutenant governor says he wouldn’t call it retribution, but vows that redistricting ‘slap in the face’ puts a target and promises of national…
4 hrs ago • 
Dave Bangert
Trump promised primaries over failed redistricting, one lands for Spencer Deery in Senate District 23
Paula Copenhaver, once known as the ‘maskless clerk’ in Fountain County, announces a run against state Sen. Spencer Deery. Trump's demand for…
13 hrs ago • 
Dave Bangert
Deery announces re-election bid, as Trump promises GOP primaries in Indiana Senate districts
Plus, reports of ICE agents in downtown Lafayette have groups looking at ways to respond, share information.
24 hrs ago • 
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West Side connects transfer policy, referendum in new survey
Plus, fallout from the Indiana Senate’s rejection of redistricting. And more.
Nov 18 • 
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This and that: How it started, how it’s going
Sheriff’s 6-7 reel hits Saturday Night Live. Lafayette’s Bicentennial sculpture update. West Side names its Wall of Pride Class of 2026.
Nov 16 • 
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Redistricting push dies in Indiana, what Sens. Deery, Alting are saying
Tippecanoe County’s two senators had been publicly on different sides before the Indiana Senate leader announced Friday that the votes weren’t there for…
Nov 15 • 
Dave Bangert
Parkview Health: Ready for competition in West Lafayette’s ‘hospital desert’
Officials with the Fort Wayne-based system say they aren’t deterred by sudden rush of hospital plans in a city that had none: ‘Our business model has…
Nov 14 • 
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‘The beginning of the end for homelessness’
A Greater Lafayette coalition builds, finds new fuel in filmmakers’ vision after screening of ‘Beyond the Bridge’
Nov 14 • 
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Tim’s Picks: Walk this way
A bunch of stuff to choose from.
Nov 13 • 
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Franciscan looks to stock ‘stop the bleed’ duffels in every Greater Lafayette classroom
‘The idea was, let’s move the equipment and the training closer to the student,’ in case of mass shooting incident. Plus, WL school board member…
Nov 13 • 
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Lafayette’s Bicentennial sculpture arrives in pieces at Ninth and South
Work expected to last three days for sweeping ‘On the Banks of the Wabash’
Nov 11 • 
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Consultant: West Lafayette schools need to prepare a new type of property tax referendum
Two years into an eight-year referendum, West Lafayette schools ponder going back to voters in 2026 amid era of state property tax reform, declining…
Nov 11 • 
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